re: Are LSU fans finally ready to admit Grinding Brian ain’t the one?

He lost to two first year head coaches and a third who was on the way out the door. At this point, Florida is feeling better about their coaching situation than is LSU.

A top tier coach with 20+ years of experience should not lose any of those games in year three at a borderline blue blood. Losing four is unconsciousable..

Your excuse for Kelly at Notre Dame was that he lost because he didn’t have as much talent or he faced a better quarterback. That isn’t the case in a number of his loses as LSU’s head coach. Instead he finds a way to lose even though he has more talent.

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A top tier coach with 20+ years of experience should not lose any of those games in year three at a borderline blue blood. Losing four is unconsciousable..

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Kelly isn't a "top tier" coach, he's just good.

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Your excuse for Kelly at Notre Dame was that he lost because he didn’t have as much talent or he faced a better quarterback. That isn’t the case in a number of his loses as LSU’s head coach. Instead he finds a way to lose even though he has more talent.

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It happens, look at your season for instance.

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The jury is still out on BK. He will need to do great things this season for me not to put him in the "ain't the one?" bucket.

BTW, I am not happy with his performance(s) so far.

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I think this offseason is the inflection point of his tenure, the team isn't talented enough at certain positions and hasn't developed the talent they do have adequately.

They addressed some of that with the staff hires last offseason, they addressed more of it with roster acquisitions this offseason.

Now we see what happens.

If LSU doesn't at least win a playoff game this season, then it's going to spiral downhill IMO.

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If LSU doesn't at least win a playoff game this season, then it's going to spiral downhill IMO.

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I don't think LSU will make the playoffs this coming season. BK is still the LSU HC.

OK, lets all pretend it was a serious question and not just a troll. The Coach O reference says otherwise, but again, we can all pretend for a bit.

The answer is nahhh, not yet anyway. 2024 was a shitty letdown due to expectations after his first two years, but he finished strong after losing to two shite teams on the road and Alabama at home, revived a gut punch near signing day and brought home a solid recruiting class and he killed it in the portal. If this sounds familiar, its the same shite a lot of Aggies were saying about Jimbo after his THIRD four loss seasons in four years. The difference being, this was Kelly's first 4 loss season. Regardless, he is on a short leash and hopefully last year was the outlier, and he takes us to the playoffs in 2025

But yeah, if for some reason, LSU allows him to have four more of these seasons before firing him, I will agree with you that we are just as stupid as you guys when it comes to myopically hoping we hired a good coach while the program becomes a laughing stock.

Well, at least we wont be giving him an extension in the midst of this potential free fall into mediocrity, but even in a pretend world, who would be ignorant enough to do THAT?

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You better hope Nuss is Heisman caliber, bc that’s what’s it taken for y’all to win that game at Tiger Stadium

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Well, your Heisman winner never beat us in BR. Or at Kyle.

As for us needing Heisman caliber QB's to beat A&M, I had no Idea Zach Mettenberger, Anthony Jennings, Brandon Harris, and Danny Etling were of that caliber.

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How could I forget Max Johnson. They all run together at this point. In fact, in the last 30 years, every single LSU QB that played against A&M beat you at least once. The only exception being TJ Finley (who was replaced in the 2020 game by Max Johnson who beat you the following season). Thirty years of "Heisman caliber" quarterbacks. What an amazing run.

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Never said that. I expected a loss back then.

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Back then was just a season ago. You had a 3-2 team with the leagues and possibly P5's worst defense who had just given 55 points coming to your place, and you were undefeated and had your best team in at least 15 years, and you expected to lose?

This is just sad.

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ND had the easiest road to the championship game

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They can’t help where they were selected. They faced an 11-1 Indiana team, the SEC Champ, and the Big Ten Runner up — and they beat all three.

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got destroyed by tOSU. Don't let the final score fool you, it was over at half time.

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It was a one score game with 5 minutes left. What you’re saying, actually, is asinine. Getting “destroyed” is LSU - Alabama 1/9/12 - meaning, crossing the 50 once the entire game. Being down 1 score with 5 minutes left doesn’t equate to being “destroyed.”

Lastly, I said, and I reiterate, Kelly could not have taken that ND team and: (1) won all three (IU, UGA, and PSU); and (2) keep the OSU game close.

I’d call you a derogatory slur or insult, but “That LSU Guy” sufficiently demonstrates your stupidity.