Fullmonty

Somewhere around page 85 someone said I had permission to call you all bitches if he stayed. I haven't forgot.

But is it true? or does it matter? :lol:

IDK about the coach- maybe an up and comer like Freeze of Kiffin who has potential but where we have leverage to write a ball busting contract if someone starts sniffing his arse.

As for the rest of your post - No you are not wrong and you make really excellent points. We probably have no better options.

I do think if we keep winning we should stay in negotiation mode. While it is shortsighted on their part, at some point LSU/Florida will cut and run. Lane is a bad hombre but he wins and I am a wanton slut with no shame when it comes to winning and sex. I would take him back with legs spread wide. :lol:

I get it - I'm old enough to remember Wingnut leaving, but these are two totally different scenarios. Tubby left because our AD at that time sucked and was a penny pincher and wouldn't invest in the program. Keith is a different animal and hasn't been afraid to spend money.



LOL I am Tuberville certified as well. I go back to the Dog years featuring DC Joe Lee Dunn, (I loved that man). But the Norms of the world don't know or care if we had a shitty AD with no vision when Tubbs left.

The issue I have with your assertion is that you are well informed and sentimentally invested. Again the uninformed Norms are not going to care that "Ole Miss offered him everything that LSU/Florida offered, but he - due to his ego - chose to quit on his team[".

All that the uninformed Norms will know is that our coach was poached again and worse certain other informed trolls will just add it to the list of their taunts: pine box, "2003 co west champs", never been to SEC championship game etc.

Just painful

:violin: :lol:

"I hear you but Alabama may really lose DeBoer to Penn State. Oklahoma lost Riley. Notre Dame lost Kelly. I believe Debo may move on from Clemson soon as well. It's not a sign of being a stepping stone. It's situational."

This is a good list and does on its face generally appear contrary to my basic assertion (excluding DeBoer b/c that isn't going to happen and Dabo who nobody really wants).

However, your potential valid examples of coaches (Riley and Kelly) voluntarily leaving "big programs" actually supports my point. Those exits both involved huge contracts from the destination program which the other programs were not willing to match. So from a perception stand point it minimized the damage, if any, to said programs reputations b/c it implied that those programs at least equally had a hand in the decision. (Not to mention in those cases it those programs already had an long established "big program" reputation which at the moment OM does not enjoy).

If Lane leaves, IMO it is imperative to the long term future of our program to project some level of control in that decision. The best thing I can think of is that he wasn't worth the money to us (maybe with a dash of he was an eradicate head case).

The projection of the perception that we are (or at least believe we are) in control is more important than who is the next coach. Otherwise, per my earlier post above, what is the point if every time we hire a coach who is successful he is poached by the perceived "bigger program". (I do not want to become Tulane or Memphis of the SEC).

Waling "oh why oh why would he want to leaving us " etc. etc. looks small and damages our reputation.

Take a lesson from Lane who trolled us for clapping after a "good effort" in a loss to Bama. He basically said F that we lost and there was nothing to clap about. If we are ever going to break through and truly contend then we need to move on from the "Mississippi Nice" mindset that has trapped us for 50 years.

So if Lane leaves we need to be prepared to aggressively advance the perception that we, not him, made or were at least part of that decision. In addition, the short list of coaches (however absurd) should be the top coaches in the country.

After all, according to some, we have everything a coach could possibly want including the money of any "big program" and the NIL program to die for. Why wouldn't Myers jump at the chance to coach here?

You are conflating two separate issues.

I think it is common knowledge that we have real money for a good coach.

The optics are bad if lane leaves when the same money was on the table and he was playoff bound. We can’t fire him so the best spin would be that he just wasn’t worth the Kirby level money.

Again implies that we (not Lane) made the decision.

Better than the narrative that everything was equivalent financially, he was playoff bound and he left anyway.

Still in the fox hole.

But if he does leave it is in our best interest to spin this to make it all about the money that we were just not willing to pay kiffin. That implies that we made decision to let kiffin go and not that he left us.

If the story is, we offered Kiffin everything LSU/Florida offered him and he still left then very bad optics for rebel nation.

If available, can someone please post a link to the press conference. I would like to watch it and can't find it.

"I would have no issue with him job shopping in secret "

Not true. :lol:

Just took a casual stroll this morning through CC Board, the LSU Coaching Official Thread, the Florida Official Coaching Thread, the latest articles from national media and even checked out the latest Vegas odds and SEC shorts (which btw is spot on for most OM fans).

Florida and LSU clearly beginning to sweat like two rats fricking in a wool sock.
:lol:

Project "Keep the Lane Train Rollin’ might just pan out for us, especially if we win the Egg Bowl. Good job KC.:bow: