NotaStarGazer

From wikipedia:

"LSU leads the trophy series 21–9. Since 1996, the winning team has received the 200-pound, $10,000 "Boot" trophy. The trophy itself stands a little over four feet tall, is molded out of 24-karat gold, and is formed from the combined outlines of the states of Arkansas and Louisiana, which resembles the shape of a boot. The Boot was created by former Razorback linebacker David Bazzel. According to Bazzel, it was intentionally made "as big and gaudy as possible, because I wanted to create value in it with gold and size," also making it the heaviest true trophy in college football."

Geez, I didn't realize this was Romper Room! What a bunch of chicken little cry babies. Enough is enough of this crap! Everyone knows the timeline and events as they unfolded. If any of you delusonals actually believe that the situation with Kelly is a poison pill for the next hire, you are fricking INSANE! I remember an original article written (it was someone like Greg McElroy but maybe wasn't him) who said some chaos like this "would make a difference with a COUPLE of coaches probably". That same national football guy said the recruiting base, the fact only one university football power exists in the state, the rabid fan base, and the financial resources are attractive enough to more than make up for that.

But I look forward to the hyperbolic chicken littles and their 20 other started topics acting like this is the end of LSU football. You clowns don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about. One request: if you happen to bump into one of the coaching candidates being interviewed, tell them you are a Tulane fan so when you shite on the program he doesn't associate YOU with LSU. Oh, and BTW, I know what willl be one response. If you don't like the posts don't read them, right? Message received and will do that. I just hate to see the board loaded up with crappy spam...the same whining day after day after day!

Yeah, Wilson's really stupid mistake was with 1:07 left in the first half with LSU having the ball at around its own 30, LSU tries a pass on 3rd and 7 or whatever. Alabama was out of timeout....LSU's field position was not that good...the yardage was probably not going to be picked up...and an incomplete pass would stop the clock which it did.

LSU SHOULD have run the ball and brought the clock down to probably 20 seconds and then punted. Instead, Alabama got the ball back with a 1 minute left and went down and scored before halftime. WIlson's excuse was "We weren't after moral victories". Hey Frank, how about going after the win. That was DUMB given the circumstances. If you are at midfield in that situation, that is different.

Yeah, the old "he hired Johnson and he hired Mulkey" is true but not exactly a half court shot. It was a layup to mix sports metaphors. The men's basketball hire was horrible and the way he cowered in front of the NCAA was cowardly. I DID think the Kelly hire was good but no way would I have given him that contract. And when he says no, that would have been fine with me. But I've seen enough of the Jimbo Fisher and Brian Kelly contracts to last a lifetime. Clearly the AD was Scott "Big Splash" Woodward. Great to hire a proven name like Mulkey and J Johnson but you fire a blank on Brian Kelly and his contract and you DESERVE to be fired...not to mention the miss on McMahon.

Pass on Blake Baker coming back. He has NOT proven he can handle a dual threat QB which is the trend for starting QBs. This guy is the highest paid DC in college football and in years hasn't figured out how to defend a running QB.

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Never having played a sport I do watch it all the time. I wonder what comes first. Talent or coaching? One thing is clear. If you don’t have the talent,

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It doesn't really matter whether it is talent or coaching. As OL coach, Brad Davis is responsible for both. He is one of/the main recruiter of the OL prospects. As far the several disappointments along the OL...W Davis, Chester, Mubenga, etc, that points to coaching. Otherwise, the recruiting rankings AND the major programs that offered these players were all wrong. So I'm guessing the talent is there but they are not being developed. Rarely does a guy come along with Will Campbell who is already college ready as a TR FR and doesn't need as much coaching.

I think no better of him than anyone on this forum. Brad Davis is grossly incompetent as an OL coach. Having said that to fire him at this point would solve nothing. Atkins is the new OC and is busy doing that while still coaching TEs. Unlike the DL where there are two coaches (DT and DE), there is only one OL coach so who would take over for him. He has also been the main recruiter for the HS OL commits. Just let the new HC and OC make the decision...I highly doubt he will be on the staff next season.

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Actually the opposite. He’s trying to get LSU’s settlement finalized to help his negotiations with schools.

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Huh? Unless that is the worst contract ever written, IF the coach wants to play hardball on the amount to be paid over several years, Kelly would be PROHIBITED from taking another football job. Sssssoooo, as the poster you responded to said, he intends to retire. Otherwise, every contract I've ever heard of says the ONLY way you can coach again while forcing a school to pay out your contract with them is to GIVE up money from the contract.

Reposting the same clueless post doesn't make it any better. The playcalling was improved and as far as timeouts and penalities go, those have been bad all season long. And the OC has 0...absolutely 0.0000000000% to do with false starts, etc. If ANY coach has to do with that, it is the OL Brad Davis and not teaching pre-snap discipline to his charges.

When I or anyone talk about bad coaching or bad strategy that is only OUR opinions. However, there is one liability on this team that is objective. I watch many football games. Do I see delay of game penalities and time outs forced to be used by the play clock running down. Of course. But LSU is the king of such. And I have NEVER EVER seen what happened last night. LSU gets called for a delay of game penalty and then before the very next snap, they are forced to use a time out to avoid another one...back to back delay of game situations. Even the announcers couldn't believe it. That is BASIC stuff to avoid that.