Indiana Tiger

You're missing a game and it's an SEC opponent.


ETA: There's an @Ole Miss game. Probably doesn't make it harder.

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I remember this. Did LSU decide not to play in a bowl game or were there were no bowls available for them to attend? ND also possibly cost LSU the 1969 National Championship. That '69 defense was ferocious

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According to Wiki, three bowls showed interest (Gator, Bluebonnet, and Peach). I remember the Peach invite, but not the others, but I have no reason to doubt it. The Peach turndown was somewhat understandable since we participated in the inaugural game the year before. So there was opportunity.

No one outside of LSU cared about this protest. It was an own goal. To the extent they punished anyone, it would have been a bowl game community that had nothing to do with this.

There is no way we would have gotten a national championship. First, we played an incredibly weak schedule. Only 3 teams had a winning record:

o We beat 8-2 AU by 1pt and then got beaten badly in their bowl game against Houston;

o We lost to 7-3 OM, but they went on to beat Ark in their bowl.

o We beat 6-4 AL by 5 pts and they went on to lost pretty badly to Colorado.

Everybody else had losing records and we didn't dominate anyone with a pulse.

We were ranked 8th in the AP after the last regular season game. In the Final AP, Penn State was #2 and undefeated and USC was #3 unbeaten and tied once. There is no way we would have jumped these teams to number 1.

LSU fans like to create a mythology that has no basis in fact--like Arnsparger recommending Archer so he could hire Spurrier or that T-Bob was the hero of the TN game fiasco. We should honor this team for what it actually accomplished and not make up bullshite.

SEC has a requirement to schedule one P4 opponent. Who is willing to schedule us at this late date?

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has the total number of recruits signed gone away with?

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Due to the wild west of the transfer portal, the limit is basically just stay at 85 or under on the fall roster.

Baker doesn't have a decision to make until Tulane makes a decision to offer him. At this point he's the DC until he's not. It's not like he's sitting around mulling LSU vs Tulane. Is it effecting things? Yes. But until they fix the system, you just have to live with it.

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They have good reason to be salty. Their best chance to get their first natty was here one day and gone the next. They have been screwed. The recruiting and portal dates need to be adjusted.

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Yes the system needs to be changed, but the best outcome for them was to let him coach.

1. There is no conflict of interest in coaching the team. LSU is not in the playoffs.

2. The conflict of interest is in roster management. Because their only leverage against Lane was him wanting to coach and Lane's leverage against LSU, they could have worked out an enforceable non-compete deal where we would not take current 26 committed recruits or current roster players in the transfer portal.

3. Without the non-compete, Lane's ethical duty is if it improves LSU then do it. I don't think Lane was threatening them; he was just explaining the facts of life. This is done all the time. Look at what Cignetti did to his former school. He's taking staff because he needs help now. If players can help, he will recruit them.

4. Yes, like a nasty divorce, this is distasteful, but it is the right thing to do for the kids.. The only legitimate reason for not letting him is the security issue, because them people are nuts.

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How does an automatic escalator work if two different coaches have that in their contracts?

I know Kirby has one.

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There can be only one. (at a time)

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They better. This is the circus the ncaa created.

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FWIW, the NCAA doesn't have anything to do with it. The FBS conferences along with ND created an organization to manage it--i.e. the College Football Playoff.

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this was handled poorly by Kiffin and OM

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OM is the problem, not Kiffin.

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I don’t really know what people want OM to do differently

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Act like an adult. Let him coach his players and in return a commitment not to recruit any high school commitments nor accept any transfers from the current roster. OM has behaved abysmally--not giving a single shite for the current team with their ego driven bullshite.

Get rid of the conference championship games, expand the playoffs to 16, and make it Championship December culminating with the championship game on January 1. Make New Year's Day great again. Start high school signing and the transfer portal about a week later.