Report: DL Coach Pete Jenkins Added To Football Staff

I played for Pete - a fine man

Sounds good!

bullshite. Kelly made a mistake. Steeples should be replaced and not having a DL coach was terrible. Even a temp guy like Jenkins shows the proper urgency. Too late though

The problem is why did he wait til almost halfway thru the season? We’ve had 2 defensive backs coaches and essentially 2 linebackers coaches but 0 def line coaches since august.

He shouldn't have hired a replacement at d line for a man on sick leave, He should've hired a Real Replacement coach instead of plugging with a Zero experience coach!

No.. Jancek has been acting as DL coach

Acting like a DLine coach and being one are 2 different things. See, Special teams coach (BK's friend) last year although this year hasn't improved that much but we've only muffed 1 so far

He’s still hurt.

Maason will probably benefit more than anybody from Pete being out there. He’s currently being coached by somebody who doesn’t know how to coach DL. He probably was never gonna be as good as he was hyped up to have been. But he’s also had some terrible luck with injuries and rotating DL coaches. He’s not gonna be a top 10 pick, but he’s not as bad as he looks right now either.

To the “he’s still hurt” reply that’s gotten so many downvotes, I think you’re right. But it may not be his knee as much as it may be his ankle. I think that injury was worse than was let on. Combine that with him coming off the knee injury (even if the knee is fully healed, there’s no way he’s 100% strength-wise. He already has a unique body type that makes him appear “top heavy.” One thing we don’t consider about recovering from knee injuries for DL/OL is that they can’t get under 500+ pounds in squat rack for most of that recovery. His knee may be “fine,” but there’s no way he’s as strong and explosive as he would have been if he’d been able to work out normally. Add the injuries to poor technique and unrealistic expectations and here we are. He’s playing poorly, but not really his fault. I think he would really benefit by coming back for his SR. year, draft-wise. But he may be too scared of another injury to gamble on it. With as “bad” as we think he’s been relative to expectations, he’s still got the measureables to be a top 3 round pick, even with little production.

The ‘24 recruiting class is basically done save for hopefully a big flip or 2. BK is gonna have to focus a lot of his efforts on not just the top portal guys (obviously), but on re-recruiting our own guys to come back. I know he wants to field “old” teams, especially on the lines. Wingo’s gone. Can he convince most of the rest to stay? We’ll see.

Coach Kelly is in year two and ya’ll act and sound like the sky is falling. This is LSU in rebuild mode after being left with 39 scholarship players. It’s unfortunate that assistant coaches can not be relied to properly fill in for each other, but we fans do not know the whole story of what is happening behind the scenes. I’m guessing that Coach Kelly has a plan much better then any of you clowns could come up with on your best day of coaching.
Let the man do his job and quit with all the critical comments.
I’m not happy with our defense but our team has pride and will bounce back if you will support them instead of taking them to the woodshed.
Geaux fighting tigers

Trust Woodward.

CBK should have volunteered some of his $$$ to get a real dLine coach. I guess money was more important to him. Ridiculous stupidity

Smith needs to get something out his legs.

Seems pretty dumb.