ATLTiger24

All this talk about whether Van Buren should "choose" to burn his redshirt is incredibly antiquated. He is being paid to be available to play football for LSU, every practice, every meeting, every game, when physically able. He forfeited control over his redshirt when he accepted NIL dollars.

I get that these concepts are (most likely) not expressed in the NIL agreements. But they should be, and they to me they are implied. Every player who opts out when healthy should forfeit NIL dollars, at bottom a pro rata amount for games that the player refuses to play.

Van Buren is not being "unselfish" (as radio commentators keep saying) if he "decides" to burn his redshirt. He is being paid to play right now. So play if you are healthy enough to play, or be penalized financially. Same for Nussmeier.

Just admit that you're not smart enough to understand the legalities of this, not plugged in enough to know the facts of this, and not important enough for your opinion on these circumstances to matter. You'll feel a lot better.

I don't blame Kelly for replacing Moffitt. LSU had gone soft in 2020 and 2021, getting repeatedly manhandled, including by UCLA. Kelly believed that Moffitt, Corey Raymond, Blake Baker, and others were part of the soft, failed regime that he was there to correct.

Brian Kelly may be past his prime, not elite enough to win big in the SEC, etc., but he has not exactly been stubborn. He has shown he will fire anyone on LSU's staff who he believes stands in his way of what he thinks he needs to win. He has been perfectly comfortable spending tens of millions of other people's money in order to do so.

Has no offensive or defensive philosophy to be stubborn about. He recruits and internally promotes totally different styles of QBs and RBs. He rebuked the transfer portal and buying players until he decided he needed them to compete.

Again, he may not be good enough to make a playoff at LSU, much less win any championship of any kind. But I think it's a mistake to confuse his prickly personality for operational stubbornness.

What I take from this nonsense is that the MAGA right and the Woke left deserve each other. We are screwed as long as they continue to control politics and power on both sides of the spectrum.

Texas Rangers season ticketholder here. Langford is a great athlete who has shown pretty good pop at the plate (21 HR this season), but he's been a .250 hitter over his first two full seasons. I like Wyatt a lot, but it's not like he's tearing the league apart. I expect both Crews and Langord to be contributing major leaguers for the next decade. It's unclear whether both, one, or neither will be a star.

We were powerless to contain Deondre Hopkins in that game (13 catches for 191 yds, 2 TDs). Clemson outgained LSU 445 to 219 and had neary four times as many first downs (32 to 9). Mettenberger was bad in the game and airmailed the 3rd down throw that could have sealed the win on LSU's final drive prior to Clemson's game-winning field goal.

The 2012 Peach Bowl performance by LSU (back when all starters played in the bowl) shows that LSU was no lock to win the SEC (vs. No. 3 Georgia), much less the national championship, had LSU held on against Bama in the TJ Yeldon screen pass game in Tiger Stadium.

I bought a parking pass in C-1. It's in the SE corner of the campus.

Clemson folks, please let me know any logistical thoughts on the walk from C-1 to the downtown bars, and the walk from C-1 to the stadium.

Many thanks.

Clemson was mediocre last season against the run. Good against the pass.

LSU was dead last in the SEC in rushing last season.

So there is obvious concern about LSU's capability to expose weakness in Clemson's defense.

Wisconsin just doesn't have the roster to compete with LSU (opener 2016)

Mississippi State just doesn't have the roster to compete with LSU (opener 2020)

UCLA just doesn't have the roster to compete with LSU (opener 2021)

Florida State's coach is a joke and they have no chance of beating LSU in the Dome (opener 2022)

No chance LSU loses five straight openers to an incredibly average USC team on the fast track in Las Vegas (opener 2024)