Theodore Links Watch

I've posted this a few times in other threads, but starting it as a separate thread given the news.

The truth about Woodward is he succeeded in some areas but failed in others.

He found Jay Johnson, but only after the BOS rejected his pursuit of O'Sullivan for off field issues.

He hired Kim Mulkey, but her situation at Baylor was stale. She also wanted to be closer to her family here. I think a baseline competent AD could have accomplished that hire

Jay Clark was right in his lap for the gym team.

He botched the Will Wade situation. I know people will reply to this saying he only fired Wade to save football, but there is no evidence that the NCAA was going to punish both sports. Heck, the NCAA didn't even really ban Wade from basketball like everyone thought. And Matt McMahon certainly isn't the answer post-Wade.

And finally, the crown jewel. The hire that every AD is judged upon: the football coach. He financially tied LSU to one of the worst contracts in the history of the school, and he went down with that ship. That's part of the job.

Could this have all been handled better by the governor and the board? Yes. But the most important point is the one everyone seems to be missing.

LSU was successful before Scott Woodward, and LSU will be successful after Scott Woodward.

You can appreciate what Woodward accomplished here, but pretending that his success doesn't come with context or that he's some sort of transcendent administrator because he can raise money for the most popular school in the state is overwrought.

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Well, you’ve contradicted yourself here

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We're playing semantics here. My point is that Woodward's "successes" should be viewed in the right context. Jay wasn't his first guy, and his first guy may be on leave right now like he is at Florida.

And you can blame the BOS for BK's contract too, but Woody was part of what will be looked at as an abject failure of a hire.

But he hired Sully before Jay Johnson until the BOS vetoed the hire because of what was happening off the field.

And Jay got Kim in the midst of a stale situation at Baylor and her wanting to come home anyway.

And he hired a dud in McMahon after caving to national pressure to fire Wade.

Let's give everything the full context when it comes to Woody

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You don't know the difference between RPO and Read Option, do you?

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Is the QB running the ball also not an option at times?

What I'm hearing is that it is Kelly's understanding that Nuss is taking longer to recover from injury than he thought, but Nuss should be good to go after the bye.

Placing his decision to start Nuss against Ole Miss to the side, he still decided to sign off on a gameplan that made no effort to establish a run game, despite his knowledge that his starting QB may still be dealing with a lingering injury.

As Ole Miss dropped 8 the entire game, Kelly and staff made no effort to adapt the gameplan at halftime.

Even if Nuss wasn't hurt, not trying to run the ball is typically an ill-advised coaching decision. When you factor in what he supposedly knew about Nuss's status (which he is likely downplaying to the media), the gameplan becomes an even bigger head scratcher.

And LSU pays this guy $10mm a year and owes him 90% of what's left if we fire him without cause? Hate to hear it

Total rip off. There are so many baseball geniuses on TD that would do the same job or better for much less!!

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Jay sucks at teaching hitting. Maybe he should try his luck at calling pitches.

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We are ranked 3rd in the SEC in batting average...

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Cowan missed that pitch. He missed all weekend. They laid off of the change out of the zone. He has been exposed.

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Oh I gotcha. So I guess our only way forward was to just throw fastballs and pray the park held them. If that's the case, good on Yeskie

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Obviously it wasn't supposed to be middle middle on the HR pitch.

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The fact that it was a fastball at all, for the fourth pitch in a row, is the issue, especially considering that Cowan's best pitch is his changeup. This also isn't the only time Yeskie has called a bad sequence in a big spot this year. He was notorious for this issue last season as well

It was a 92mph fastball. Check the tape, my guy