Sheriff Brackett

They haven’t been able to do quite a bit since 2019.

Winning big games, being physical in the trenches on both the offensive and defensive lines, have a reliable running game outside of the QB (even though I think that is starting to change this year with Jones)

These problems plagued the last two regimes. I think Kiffin is the guy, but there are a lot of cobwebs he’s trying to clear out.

Excluding end of half kneel downs:

15 total drives:
10 TDs, 1 FG. Scoring 73% of the time.

The four stops were 2 punts and 2 interceptions.

The first interception was when they went on a 7-play, 72-yard drive and they were on our 3-yard line, so A&M already drove the length of the field.

The second punt came when A&M was up 42-18 in the 4th quarter and the game already in hand.

This is a huge game for him and people will have every right to continue to question him if we see this trend continue.

Offense definitely wasn’t firing on all cylinders to say the leasr, but when your defense is giving up score after score in the first half, it’s hard to keep up.

The soft zone that Baker continues to try and play just blows my mind when you can clearly tell it isn’t working.

I know Chambliss is great, by my god we didn’t even try to make it difficult for him by playing so far off the receivers and them just picking us apart.

He has continued to have problems against good offenses or mobile QBs. This is his third opportunity to be able to stop Marcel Reed, who has torn us apart.

He has zero excuses now in his third year with an offensive-minded coach, especially with the money he is making.

I know a lot of media and others have been saying "There's no way we get kicked out. They aren't that stupid"

While I do agree we won't get kicked out, their idiocy over this entire situation has shown me that will allow their hubris and ego get in the way of common sense. Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they expel us without thinking through any of the ramifications.

And honestly, what has given you any confidence that cooler heads will prevail on the SEC's side of things?

The conference is getting into a pissing match with one of its charter members over nothing.

The fact that this is still a topic of conversation shows how stupid and short-sighted Sankey and the SEC are.

Delete

Plain and simple. If this is how our commissioner and fellow-member institutions are going to treat us, then I don’t want to be a part of the conference anymore as sad as that is.

I don’t care what the financial fallout would be. It’s not worth it to be in this kind of toxic relationship. Business or personal.

Their behavior towards us is worse than how Baylor and Penn State were treated over something far more serious and egregious.

We already bent the knee when we didn’t roster the players that were ruled eligible by a court order.

There is no amount of apology or groveling that will make anyone in the conference happy. Make them vote us out and let’s move on from this toxic relationship if that is how the vote falls.

Since the 2019 season, LSU is 8-20 vs ranked opponents and 12-20 against road/neutral site opponents in the regular season (excluding bowl games).

Only four of the ranked teams that we defeated ended their respective seasons ranked: 2020 Florida, 2022 Alabama, 2023 Missouri, 2024 Ole Miss.

Post 2019:

Orgeron
4-7 on the road/neutral site
3-7 vs. ranked opponents

Kelly
8-13 on the road/neutral site
5-11 vs. ranked opponents (feel confident in saying he would've been 5-13 if he wasn't fired midseason).

Couldn't agree more with this. Too many times I feel like the other team has wanted it more than us during BK's tenure, and that falls on him.

I think regardless of what our record is at the end of the year, we are much better off long term, and I am really excited for what this season brings either way.

I want to see our team play with some passion and get in the opposing team's face. I want to see some of that swagger return that we honestly haven't seen since 2019 from start to finish.

I think 10-2 or 9-3 is very realistic. Luckily, we get four of our toughest matchups at home. Kentucky and Auburn have historically been very tough places for us to play in regardless of personnel and coaching, and Tennessee won't be a cakewalk either.

We've only had a handful of seasons where we went undefeated or had one loss in program history. Given the state that Kelly left things, Kiffin has his work cut out for him.

Is it impossible? Absolutely not, but it is improbable that we go undefeated or end up with only one loss.

People always talk about being the right fit culturally down here. Really, you just have to not be an arrogant, pompous douche and you’ll usually fit in.

I think he saw how successful 2022 was and he assumed that he could do the bare minimum instead of really attacking the portal and address team needs.

Ultimately, it was his downfall.

I believe that was the first year they were testing it out. I don’t think you could challenge a play. It had to come from the booth, and there were certain restrictions.

I only remember this because they had the Ohio State/Texas game on at the same time and they reviewed the go ahead TD for Texas that was Vince Young to Limas Sweed to make sure he caught it and was in bounds.