Liamk

I'm not gonna be a homer and pretend like Saturday wasn't embarrassing. It was. We weren't ready to play, and that is a coaching problem. That being said, LSU's biggest issue is not coaching. It's talent. For starters, we had the weakest defensive line in the SEC at the end of last season. We whiffed in the transfer portal. We had the weakest defensive line in the SEC when this season began. Then Guillory got injured. We now may have the weakest defensive line in football. Garrett "hit-or-miss" Nussmeier is 100% cooked. A&M rattled him, and his confidence has been gone ever since. At this point, he's missing throws by a country mile We're not making the playoffs, so maybe throw in Hurley to get him some reps. Because if we can indeed hang onto Underwood, I suspect both Collins and Nussmeier will be gone next year. Before the season, most people picked LSU to go 9-3 or 8-4. That is still very much on the table if we can get our act together. Is it "awesome?" God, no. But anyone suggesting we fire Kelly or (sweet Jesus) bring back Orgeron is clearly high.

You literally beat me by 24 seconds

So did they just pull names out of a hat? Or maybe threw darts at a map?

Agreed (although if you want to get technical, there are still upwards of 50 or so teams that are contending for a playoff spot... but I digress) The good-and-bad of the SEC this year is that none of the "big dogs" of the last few seasons look quite as big as they did a few weeks ago. Everyone is beatable. The flip-side of that coin is that the traditional also-rans seem to be getting their acts together. A&M, Arkansas, Kentucky, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Vandy... none of them are pushovers this season. Even Florida can present problems on the right day. As far as LSU is concerned, if you were to check vegas right now, I'd imagine we're going to be favored in all of our remaining games except @ College Station. But every one of them is loseable. And next week at Arkansas is a classic potential LSU let-down game. Arkansas always plays us incredibly tough, even if they're bad. And they're actually pretty good. Fingers crossed.

Easy fixes: -if play is halted for any amount of time due to an injured player, then the injury is certainly serious enough that the player can't return for the remainder of the half, or maybe the entire game. -Start charging teams a timeout every time it happens. -Automatic 5 yards every time it happens. Apply at least the first one (which also makes sense from a player safety perspective), and watch how quickly this stops.

Maybe they should've played there yesterday, eh?

Calm down.

Class of 98- if I were a Vols fan watching their current performance, I'd want to be somewhere else as well.

It was the heat. Index was over 100°, and the medical tents were apparently full to the brim. Not saying LSU doesn't have a few fickle fans. Everyone does. But the stadium was half-empty by halftime.

I think you're right. The guy was put in a really bad situation from the start. I don't think this is his run, but he'll make another one down the line.

Go find the person who told you that and ask... no, DEMAND your money back.

"He's probably not going to win the Heisman..." In Nussmeier's defense, it's September. Nobody's "probably" gonna win the Heisman at this point. The current favorite has a 14% chance to win it.

Outscoring a team 42-17 after the first 20 minutes isn't really a "sneaking back in" kind of situation.

You're not fooling anyone.

Non-playoff bowl wins aren't really an adequate reflection of a team's quality, anymore. They're certainly not a prediction of future quality for the following season.

Oddly enough, of the 3 losses they have penciled-in for us, the one that I take the least issue with is Florida.

I mean, if it works that way, then why is Mizzou ranked ahead of LSU? LSU went into your house and beat you, and both ended up 6-2 in conference. It's a different year with different staffs and different rosters.

"We all know..." Who's "we," and why are all of you unable to read? Or do they just not have Google where ypu all live? LSU plays 1-2 OOC P5 teams every year, and has done so for decades. Meanwhile, I'd stop looking for weaknesses in the SEC out-of-conference schedules and worry more about the weaknesses in the PAC12 in-conference schedules. If you guys don't toughen-up, that conference may just fold!

I get that we're from Louisiana... But "go kiss your sister" is a REAL brave card to play coming from Tennessee. It's kinda like Shrek making fun of how "green" the incredible hulk is.

Lots to unpack here... First of all, a woman is dead. A fetus, who was never even given a chance at life, is gone. So before you start bagging on A&M, try to remember that this is bigger than some petty BS rivalry. That being said, I'm genuinely asking- did A&M not do any kind of background check on this guy??? Nobody thinks that they knowingly brought in someone who MIGHT be a murderer, so how in the hell was this hire made??? How does this slip through the cracks of a background check? I'm not knocking the Aggies. I'm genuinely asking.

If they're gonna win anything, 2024 is their window. They have an insanely easy schedule by SEC standards. They're toughest game is UGA, and they'll likely get 2 shots at them. Even if they don't, 11-1 gets them into the playoffs easily. Bama, Auburn, and LSU are currently "course-correcting," and A&M will eventually stop being a laughingstock. In short, if Texas wants to make a run, the time is now.

The Falcons, huh??? Wow. If he thought he had to carry a team LAST year...

Ah, yes: the same exact names that everyone else is saying. Well done, Pete.

Of course. Just like going from Liberty to Clemson would be lateral. Or going from Oklahoma to Tulane would be lateral. After all, both Liberty and Tulane have been pretty good this year.

Wow. I typed all that sh*t just to be 100% wrong. Well done, Liam. Well done.

I'm of multiple minds on this. First, let me say that Baker is a solid choice. He's worked a bit of magic at Mizzou and I'd be happy to have him at LSU. But even though he's a solid choice, he's certainly not the ONLY choice. And if we don't get him, we'll be fine (my fantasy, will-never-happen-in-a-million-years choice is now and will always be Jim Leonhard. But man, that guy just LOVES the Midwest!!!) From Baker's perspective, there's a lot to consider. But I don't think money will be the deciding factor. After all- outside of "ego", if you're making $1.5M a year and you and your family are happy (which they seem to be), are you going to risk that for $1.8M a year or whatever we're going to offer him? I genuinely don't know, as they make 7 figures/year, and I make 7 figures/decade. I'll ask my boss for a raise so I can better understand this, but writing this essay in my office probably won't help my case. Goals and ambition. Let's not be delusional- Mizzou-to-LSU is absolutely NOT a "lateral move," as they say. DC at LSU is one of the top 10 assistant coaching jobs in the country. You're going to be playing on bigger overall stages with better overall talent, and the annual expectation is to be competing for titles. But it's a pressure cooker, and you're on a short leash. It's one of those jobs where you're on the hot-seat the moment the ink on your contract is dry. There's more room for error at Mizzou. And also, Mizzou seems to be building something pretty special right now. Maybe you stay to continue to be a part of it? At the end of the day, believe it or not, I think Baker says "no" to LSU and stays where he's at. I think 99% of all the coaches we would offer this job to would jump at the chance, but we somehow settled on the one guy who's gonna stay put. I could be wrong, but we'll see. Also- if anybody read this ridiculous novel I just wrote from start-to-finish, you get an "A" for the semester.

I don't think Kelly is going anywhere after LSU. And if he does and we need a new coach, we'll just take yours.

While it is unlikely, it's not out of the realm of possibility. Personally, I don't think it's gonna play out that way. My (more realistic) hope for LSU is to finish at 9-3 and slide into a NY6 after UGA annihilates ole miss and bama. But if LSU wins-out, the absolute lowest they'd be ranked is #5. They'd really only need one break to go their way over the next month to sneak in.

I think if you honestly compare the two, Nuss has the bigger arm. And on his best days, he's probably the more accurate passer. The two issues that come up are that 1) in between those "best days", there's a lot of free-for-alls, and 2) Daniels has the edge in pretty much every other facet. I think Nuss will be ready next year. But yes: he needs to be more careful. Every now and then we forget how skinny he is. Then the camera pans out and we see his tiny-ass legs!???

A few things- We've played one good team and two not-so-good teams. And we lost to the one good team. I'm as happy as anyone that we seem to have righted the ship, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. And let's certainly not rewrite history. We had a whole year of "if we played FSU again it'd be different..." Well, we played FSU again. And the only difference was the margin by which they beat our a**es. If we handle business against Arkansas, that's good. But that's what we're SUPPOSED to do. After that, we've got 3 games in a row against undefeated teams, including the first one at Ole Miss. We win that one, and we'll be back in the hunt. And we'll have done something to get us past the opener.