Fullmonty

I thought Frazier looked better than Lindsey running the ball. Frazier ran angry which meets the eye test for me. Would like to see more of him when necessary.

The defense was suppose to be fixed 3 games ago. It’s still very broke.

I can perfectly accept a loss on the road in the SEC but for a play off caliber team said loss shouldn’t be a curb stomping embarrassment.

Bottom line Honeymoon over.

That would be poetic but Texas has Sark and LSU has Kiffin. So no its just different. If it is any consolation Texas should keep it closer than Clemson but the belt is coming out.

Arch would have been more appreciated if he had gone to Ole Miss.

Kiffin is not taking a loss to bama at Death Valley this year. Not beating Bama was his biggest regular season disappointment at Ole Miss. Bama not on schedule last two years. Have the cayenne pepper popcorn ready!

and likely favored at Auburn, at Kentucky and at Tennessee (all wins) and with everybody else playing under the lights at Death Valley with Darth Kiffin (again all wins). Other than at Ole Miss where is LSU’s other loss this year?

Pete’s assessment of the game scares me. What football game was he watching?

2015 Arkansas

The daily/hourly "year 7" RG insider report was always just wishful thinking. We were all guilty of hearing what we wanted to hear.

I feel like relitigating the scene of the crime. So I shall.

The conventional wisdom was that LK was just visiting OM and would move on at some point. That was probably LK's intentions as well. Initially for that reason I was against the hire. But nobody asked me.

In any event, the LK cache coupled with a well managed NIL program and ultimately a little luck (Chambliss) produced progressively better than anticipated results. I must admit It settled in on me pretty quick and I felt better than I had about OM football since 2016 NFL draft . Everyone was calling 2025 a rebuilding year after the 2024 shite show (losing to Kentucky/Florida with that roster and the inexplicable RB issue). The success of the 2025 season just caught everyone off guard including LK and then the foreshadowed "opportunities" piled on.

Because of the success at OM you will never convince me that LK wasn't genuinely struggling with his decision to stay or that he hasn't always been a professional Douch Bag (but at the time my Douche Bag) both can be true.

Although it likely would not have change what ultimately happened, OM should not have given LK an ultimatum in early/mid November, especially since Pete was always the back-up plan and it was clear that LK wasn't announcing anything until "after the season". That's a moving target. With no ultimatum the pressure would have been on LSU/Florida to press the issue and neither were going to wait until "after the season" for LK to make a decision. It would have been interesting to see how that approach would have worked out.

I also believe it is less likely LK leaves if we would have beat either Kentucky or Florida in 2024 (thereby making the play-offs 2024) to go along with the pending play-off run last year.

If you analyze all the conference games LK won over his 6 years at OM most were nail biters coupled with some abracadabra. LK actually never did anything at OM to hang a banner over or paint the stadium with. If you take away two or three wins each year, then on average, LK was really no better on the field than HF (except HF beat Saban twice vs LK beat Georgia once). Five years from now hopefully winning those games is not something we talk about anymore.

Undeniably everybody wanted LK anyway and for good or bad that is really all that matters in modern college football where money talks. Pete definitely seems loyal to me. For that reason alone I am onboard. Maybe Pete will be HF 2.0 without the burner phone or LK 2.0 without the Douche Bag. I will gladly take either.

Let me guess naming him Trinidad or her Lacy! LOL

Ole Miss forced the decision when it happened, not LSU.

Correct. We treat our coaches like we treat our woman. If you want to go there is the door.

You got your man. The rest is noise. Relax. LSU will be fine.

I think the Ole Miss AD screwed up trying to up the pressure on Kiffin. I think it made the decision easier than it might have been

If by pressure you mean making Kiffin decide on a date certain - then I agree 100%. Most OM fans disagree with me but I think Kiffin legitimately was struggling with the decision up until the moment he was forced to make it.

I would not have forced a decision on the gamble that Kiffin would not have announced a decision until after the season (the CFP) ended for OM and that the additional time spent at OM during the CFP run might have swung him to stay. In fact my thinking was that LSU/Florida would blink first in this situation since they were so worried about having someone in place ASAP and would have hired over Lane. This would have also resulted in Kiffin staying since he had nowhere to go. Add the fact that we were willing to pay him substantially the same money and similar NIL.

It also wouldn't have been a big gamble either because Golding was always the escape hatch if things did not go our way.

All pure speculation but I would have liked to have seen how that would have played out.

Fuuuuuuck him. Say we will let him transfer anywhere but LSU if he wants us to not withdraw the request

yes yes indeed but it shouldn't just be LSU. It should be NO to anywhere especially LSU.- we need more ruthlessness up in here.