re: UPDATE LSU's Corey Raymond is a No

The school has $$ issues for sure but you best believe LSU isn’t letting someone walk without a competitive offer. shite, Aranda makes more that a lot of head coaches

Just heard the same thing. Interviews are not complete and once done, thats when Kirby will decide and make the offer to whomever he wants at the position. So it seems that everyone is waiting on the interviewing to conclude. We should know something this week (I hope).

LSU hires a safeties coach and took some of Raymond’s on field duties away. He was reportedly unhappy with that.

I’m not super well versed, but I beleive that decision was made by Aranda and that the safeties coach is his guy.

They kind of have to do whatever Aranda wants since they pay him thirty seven billion dollars per year.

With interviews not being finished, we don't know what we don't know - no offers having been made.

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Well, this is what it’s looking like. I take it you don’t think he’s qualified?

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He may be a prodigy, but he doesn't have the resume at all. That's just a fact.

Any news?

At this point its getting laughable we haven't made a hire.

I mean Kirby will always be the heart of the defense so its no so much a problem as it is just annoying.

Name a damn DC/DB coach so we can enjoy the offseason lol

HAVE SOME FAITH. Kirby has a plan. He just needs more money. Then we can find a DC in Tahiti.

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It is a bit silly that we still don't have anyone. It's been 6 weeks. You would have thought that if we were promoting from within, Smart would have already announced it.

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It’s by this reasoning and this alone that I don’t think he WANTS to make an internal hire. I mean look how quickly Coley was named after Chandy left. If it were in interior guy why wouldn’t that have been any different. Keep the faith boys, and dawgirl.

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It’s by this reasoning and this alone that I don’t think he WANTS to make an internal hire. I mean look how quickly Coley was named after Chandy left. If it were in interior guy why wouldn’t that have been any different. Keep the faith boys, and dawgirl.

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I believe it's totally logical why Kirby waited to name the OC (wasn't done right away!) and the DC.

When you believe you have your OC and DC already on the staff, it creates less urgency. You leave the position unfilled so you can explore other avenues just to see what's out there and what positions others might consider.

With the OC, Coley was already "Co-OC" and bringing in someone from outside to be OC would have meant a demotion for Coley - which further would have probably caused a chain reaction of Coley leaving UGA. Kirby had no real desire to lose Coley's recruiting for sure. Was he the right hire to be the sole OC and playcaller? very debateable but it all makes sense - checked w/ Gran and Enos but never offered either. I think Enos wanted to bring in his own staff. Think about it for a minute - if you bring in an outside OC, they are going to want to hire their own staff - that was never gonna happen.

As to the DC, while Tucker was a huge loss, the fact that Kirby is an an DC as well created less urgency to fill the position. Further, it has long been thought that Schumann, and now apparently Lanning, were due a promotion. So your question, "Why not already promote them?" - because leaving it open allows you to speak w/ some guys that might not take the call otherwise - Raymond(already interviewed) and Derrick Ansley (who we may not even interview).