LifeAquatic

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one of On3's insiders received a text declaring that "LSU's winning the natty" when he asked people who were there how the scrimmage went.

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It's fricking wild that people are actually believing you lol. There's absolutely zerochance in hell that someone on the LSU staff would text a reporter saying "LSU is winning the natty" - that's an absolutely absurd thing for someone on the inside to say to a media member, and it didnt happen lol

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It does highlight how poorly this staff has done at assembling a QB room though, IMO.

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I’m sorry but this has gotta be just about the single dumbest criticism I’ve ever seen levied on this board (which is saying a lot).

Right now, LSU’s QB1 has the second best heisman odds in the country, and would probably be first but for the fact that one of his competitors has a super recognizable last name and plays for the preseason #1 team. In other words, LSU’s QB1 situation might be the absolute best in the country. It’s certainly in the running.


Behind that, our likely QB2 is a guy who 1) has already shown that he can be a capable SEC starter, 2) has natural physical talent to suggest that he’s capable of being even better than that, *and* 3) is still plenty young enough that improvement should be the *expectation*, not just an outside possibility. How many major programs have a QB2 with that combination of floor and ceiling? The answer is very few - and the ones that do are teams where there really *isnt* even a QB2, because the top 2 guys are still battling each other for the starting job. Among teams with a no-doubt stud QB1 entrenched at the top of the depth chart, MVB is basically as good of a QB2 as you can hope for. The *only* way you can really wind up with a better QB2 is if you have a true freshman who turns out to be an instant impact sort of talent (incredibly rare) or a rising sophomore who is the same (also rare, bc in 90% of cases those guys transfer out). Importantly, though, in neither of those situations has the team actually seen the guy do it before - so in neither case does the team actually KNOW that they’ll be able to rely on him as a high quality QB2. You can roll the dice on one of those guys, but way more guys—even highly recruited guys—turn out to NOT be that good that quickly than the opposite. The likelihood that MVB would be unable to give you halfway decent fill-in QB play are lower than for the large majority of other QB2s.

What’s more: LSU even has another guy—who has both a) talent to get excited about and b) time in the program—to push MVB for the QB2 spot. So whatever the odds are that MVB would be unable to give you a couple games of competent QB play, you have to bump them down a little further when considering LSU’s QB2 situation as a whole; and whatever the odds the MVB would be able to come in and actually give you really really good QB play, you have to bump those up a little when considering LSU’s QB2 situation as a whole. That ultimately puts us in as good a position as almost anyone with respect to QB2.


And lastly, even beyond those guys, we ALSO happen to have a super-athlete wildcard QB who is sufficiently talented and has enough past experience at QB to go a totally different direction and still have a puncher’s chance of catching teams off guard if some sort of emergency strikes and we don’t think we can get away with running a normal offense anymore. That’s another dimension that most teams either a) don’t have, or b) are already counting on as their Plan B.


And that’s just this year! In 2024, we at least had a quality starter, even if we were thin behind him. The year before that, in 2023, we had the single best QB1 in the country (the heisman winner) **and** the single best QB2 in the country (he threw for more yards against UGA in *one half* than any other QB not named CJ Stroud did all season in a whole game). And in 2022 when this staff first got here, they inherited a room that basically had one promising but unproven young guy and nothing else, and they made a super shrewd addition that both kept us afloat where very few other QBs (and certainly none who were realistically available to us) would have been able AND turned into a future superstar. All while retaining the promising young guy.



Long story short: Even WITH the HS recruiting misses, LSU’s management of the QB room under the current staff has been basically as good as you can possibly ask for.

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gun violence

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The gun shot itself?

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On the off chance that you have any idea what any of these words mean, I just wanted to note that "gun" is being used as an adjective, here, not as an adverb or as the subject of the sentence. It's referring to a category or type of violence, not describing action or naming the person, place, or thing that committed the violence.



Hope this helps!

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Is there any evidence of going to IMG actually helping anyone?

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If there is a benefit, I'd bet that the bigger impact is making the transition into big-time college football--adjusting to a college schedule, college training regimen, college atmosphere and expectations, and college independence--a bit smoother, more than any sort of tangible on-field improvement. So even if there's not really much overall performance benefit, I wouldn't necessarily be surprised if IMG kids are a bit more likely to contribute as true freshmen, just by virtue of the fact that they probably have less of an adjustment period than most other guys.

Also: It sounds sort of counterintuitive, but I actually think that one of the major benefits of IMG is academics--not necessarily that they're learning more or learning better, but that the curriculum is structured in such a way as to accomodate and facilitate early graduation, to allow kids to early enroll and get an extra semester of work with their college program.

In any event, all of this is really just speculation - I have no idea whether there's any kind of real measurable performance benefit in an overall sene.

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Do you think just because now there's a sharing cap it's going to prevent universities from funneling money to NIL endorsements?

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"Do you think allowing kids to make actual salaries will prevent people from hiring them for fake endorsements to make up for the fact that they're not allowed to make salaries?"


lmao let me know when you see NFL teams diverting huge portions of their non-football operating budget towards players for phony endorsement deals to supplement their actual football pay

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Not surprising considering they spent over 2 MM on a defensive lineman from New Orleans last year that has only played one season of high school ball

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I would MUCH rather pay $2m for jahkeem stewart than any Tight End prospect.


Also, I just want to say for the record that the "only played one season of HS football!!!" thing re: Stewart is absolutely idiotic lol. He had more production in that one season than many DL recruits--even the blue chips--have in their entire HS careers. And in any event, it doesnt exactly take much tape to see that stewart is a freak of freaks.

Kinda scary that this is coming directly on the heels of his Miami visit, which he has been raving about and saying miami is "recruiting him the best". But on the flip side, he has pretty consistently been a kid who falls in love with the school he's visited most recently, and we have the final official prior to his announcement.


Still think it's LSU but i'd have definitely preferred it if this announcement *didn't* come immediately following his miami visit lol

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We have a lot of Wr

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No we don't, though. We're *hoping* to have a lot a WR *in this signing class* - but we're not only a long way away from the projected class becoming the actual class, we're also a long way from whoever does wind up in the class becoming actual contributors that can be relied upon.


Bearing in mind that this signing class will not be on the roster until the 2026 season, let's look at our past WR classes:


From our 2021 class (will be in year 6 this year) we still have Chris hilton. He'll almost certainly be gone after this year.


From our 2022 class, there's nobody left.


From the 2023 class (will be entering their 4th year in CFB when the 2026 class are true freshmen), we have kyle parker remaining. Parker has 3 career catches and is unlikely to get much play this season.

From our 2024 class (will be entering their 3rd season), we have kylan billiot and jelani watkins, neither of whom has ever caught a pass in a game and neither of whom is likely to play much/at all this upcoming season.

The 2025 class (will be in year 2) had only 2 WRs, TaRon Francis and Phillip Wright. Obviously neither of those guys has played yet, and neither is likely to play much/at all this year.


Then you've got the guys who have transferred in:
--Zavion Thomas and Barrion Brown were originally in the 2022 class and will be using their final year of eligibility this year, so will be gone after this year.
--Aaron Anderson and Nic Anderson were also originally in the 2022 class, but will be using their 3rd year of eligibility this year. Still, they are both likely to be gone after this year. I could see an argument as to why Nic Anderson might stick around, but it would be an odd move for him to come to LSU (whose QB situation is up in the air after a year) if he's not trying to get to the NFL after one season.
--Destyn Hill... I cant even begin to sort through his eligibility situation, but he's probably gonna be here next year, I'd imagine.


So you're left with a WR room that will have Kyle Parker, Destyn Hill, Kylan Billiot, Jelani Watkins, Taron Francis, and Phillip Wright when the 2026 class are true freshmen. As of now, that entire group has combined for a grand total of 9 career catches - and they're unlikely to increase that total by much this upcoming season. Even if you have confidence in some of those guys, thats super thin overall and razor thin in terms of guys who will have actual experience.


In other words: Our WR room may be crazy deep at the moment, but from the perspective of the 2026 class, our WR room is BARREN.

This piece either (a) does a very bad job of explaining the details of this supposedly "missing" money; or (b) is bizarrely clueless/misinformed about the absolute most basic, fundamental aspects of NIL.


The headline (which tbf is not usually written by the author of the piece) is "Michigan Accused of Hiding NIL Funds as $12m Bryce Underwood Move Puts Sherrone Moore's Side Under Scrutiny"... but literally the only supporting facts provided in the article were that (1) Michigan's collective was omitted from some random list of the top 10 richest collectives; and (2) some minor youtube sportstalk show that I've never heard of discussed the list and suggested that Michigan/Michigan's collective must be holding back information regarding its NIL funding.


All of this, of course, blatantly overlooks the remarkably obvious fact that not all NIL money comes from collectives - which is *such* an obvious explanation for the "hidden" money that it almost makes ME question whether IM the one who is somehow missing something. Though of course the better explanation is probably just that this is straightforwardly clickbait (albeit borderline libelous clickbait).


tl;dr: This article is complete nonsense clickbait.

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People claim that Anderson looked so dominant and that’s why Jahkeem decided to just stay on the sidelines at Karr instead of play becuase he didn’t want Anderson making him look bad.

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1) literally nobody claims this


2) Stewart *couldn't* play and knew that was going to be the case when he transferred