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Dude hated Sloan while he was here.

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Somehow I seriously doubt that. They coached at LA Tech together and Baker was one of Sloan's groomsmen during that time. Reunited here.

Now I'm sure there's still competitive fire from them to be better than the other now that they're on opposite sidelines but you guys need to separate how we feel as fans from how coaches feel about each other.

Bama and Texas at home in back to back weeks might be the most hyped consecutive home games in Tiger Stadium history.

Still a lot of work to be done if we're going to be 7-1 going into that stretch. The players and coaches surely aren't looking that far ahead, but we as fans can acknowledge how special those 2 weeks can be if we take care of business in October.

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2021 and 2007 Kentucky flashbacks are running through my head. Let’s not have either of those type of games in Lexington this time please.

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Those were the last 2 Lexington games.

The 3 before were Bluegrass Miracle, the 2001 game where we had to score a TD with like 20 seconds left to win, and 1999 where they beat us like a drum (and DiNardo was a dead man walking anyway)

That's 5 straight games in Lexington where it was either a loss or requiring last second heroics to win. And keep in mind 2/5 of those LSU teams won the SEC and one even won the natty so it's not like it was trash teams rolling in there all the time. I'll believe this is an easy win when I see it.

Then there's Kiffin's history with Kentucky. He went 3-1 at Ole Miss vs them but the loss was the 2024 team which he had no business losing, it was his most talented Ole Miss team and a bad Kentucky team (this was their only conference win) played in Oxford, just an unacceptable loss from them. 2020 was an OT win, 2022 was a 22-19 win that I remember watching when Kentucky had Levis, and they were extremely lucky to win that game and were really outplayed the majority of it, I wanna say there was a controversial call at the end too. Last year was probably his easiest win at 30-23 but even then it was 20-20 in the 3rd quarter

Kentucky hasn't been an easy out and they'll be at home. This is this team's 2nd road game, and they lost the first one. People predicting an easy 3 TD win or something I just don't see it. Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE to see us just come out and dominate them and win going away. I just know we're going to get Kentucky's best shot and I just want to get a win however we can personally. I don't expect it to be so easy.

The first few games of the season, Gage was the 2nd RB and would come in anytime Jones needed a breather or when the 2nd string came in Gage was the next main guy out there. The past 2 games, we've seen that switch to Berry being the relief guy and main guy when the backups come in.

You can point to a few positions where this has happened since the season started. Kiffin doesn't write his depth charts with a pen, it is fluid and you can earn your way up. Berry seems to have done that over the last couple of weeks based on how they've inserted him the last 2 games compared to the first 3, although Gage's runs tonight definitely seemed like he wanted to prove he still deserved the 2 spot and he may get it back after that, even though Berry didn't do anything wrong either, I'll leave that for coach to figure out. And that's what I love about Kiffin's approach, Gage wanted to get his spot back so bad and he housed two runs like his life depended on it. It creates competition so the backups strive that much harder to do better, and keeps the starters working hard to keep their spots because their spots are not guaranteed because of some BS seniority shite, or you get paid this much NIL or On3 gave you this many stars out of HS.

I said all of that to say, Durham is just being outperformed by the 3 RBs in front of him. He's not in the doghouse, there's no vendetta against him, he may even have the best attitude in practice and wants to be better and is really coachable. They aren't trying to make an example out of him or any other ulterior motive you're trying to concoct of why he's not playing much. He is the 4th best back on the roster, so he's getting 4th team reps. He had 5 carries for 13 yards tonight. Gage had 6 carries for 110 and housed 2 long TDs. Berry also went over 100, and Jones had a quiet night but left early and has been doing his thing all season. Still had 16 for 79 and some good 1st down runs to make 2nd and 3rd downs manageable.

Durham just isn't performing as well as those in front of him in games or practice, and that's really all there is to it. That's sports. That's life.

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I will say that playing a cupcake game in week 5 is extra dumb, and im sure most lsu fans would agree.

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We played a P4 team to open the season while almost everyone else was playing cupcakes. Ole Miss also played a P4 team week 1, they're choosing to play their FCS team in November. By the way, so is Bama (Chattanooga before Auburn). We'll be playing a road game in Neyland while yall are doing that.

At the end of the day we're playing 9 SEC games, an OOC P4, a G6, and an FCS over the course of 12 games. Who gives a shite when they fall?

Listening to his press conference and that was the answer he gave for why he called the timeout and chewed the team out coming out of halftime.

Sounded like the players wanted to get the game over with and Kiffin was pissed that they would even ask him such a question hence the timeout and gathering everyone together. "We decide when the game's over"

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“All you need is 1”

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That was what pissed me off the most. Like I get the defending your players aspect where he was coming from winning an SEC rivalry game. But the "did you see the last play, that's all you need" was just an extremely dumb statement. Like there's no way you can believe a garbage time run after struggling to run the ball all game means the running game is fixed. And it certainly isn't "all you need" :lol:

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Never seen such a dynamic athlete his first year turn into a legit chunker on 4th string like him

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Justin Vincent comes to mind.

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So Longstreet literally can’t throw at all.

5 star btw

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He got passed up on the depth chart by Clark in the offseason for good reason. He might be better served going the Russell Shepard or Braxton Miller route by next season.

They get a pretty big check.

Home team gets their backups live reps.

Rarely does the upset does happen but it has happened before.

And FCS teams are often playing the P4 team in their state which a lot of their players probably grew up wanting to play in that stadium and they get a chance to do it. Seen plenty of these FCS guys in warm ups taking in the moment and taking pictures in Tiger Stadium as it's probably the only time they'll perform here.

Longstreet was 2nd string and a higher prospect in the portal until Clark passed him up. I think we thought Berry was the going to be the starter this year but Dillon Jones earned it in practice (and has proved it in games too).

I like Kiffin, whatever NIL you're making, whatever your star rating in recruiting was is irrelevant to him, you will move up if you outplay the guy in front of you and you will move down if the guy behind you outplays you. It's how it should be.