MrSinnyman

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I don’t think BK learned anything or changed his attitude towards the portal. I think LSU finally got its NIL act together, and so Kelly finally has the money he needs to go get guys now.

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Yup. People seem to forget that in a short period of time they paid out O, Will Wade, paid out millions in legal fees and settlements for the sex scandals, signed Johnson and Mulkey, and BK, and built a new training center. Thats a lot of cheddar going out the door in a short period of time

I could be totally wrong here but FWIW I think, from what i understand, is all these reports floating around aren’t 100% accurate and a lot of it is speculation. It’s what the Collectives choose to disclose. Like the “reports” about Beck’s deal in Miami at $4M. Where did that come from, like Becks agent or the school or what? To my knowledge there’s no rules or regs yet that requires schools or collectives from publishing what they’re offering.

That’s my understanding of it anyways. I could be way off.

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Here's 2 Kenny Dillingham Curt Cignetti UGA wasn't exactly upper elite when Smart took over, not as bad as Florida with Napier, but not playoff ready

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Comical. ASU was 1-9 before he took over. First year went 3-9 (Pac12) oof. Second year — coincidentally when they transferred to the watered down Lil12 (minus OU and TX of course) they go 11-3. Win the Lil12 then get beat in the playoffs. Great game, competitive, but still a first round L. Have the 44th ranked recruiting class, 30th transfer class. No Heisman winner. No bowl wins. 14-12 record. Sorry bub. Not even remotely close to BK’s success so far at LSU.

Cigs definitely took over losing program, for sure. 3-9 the year before. Went 11-2 in his first year. Only two ranked teams he played, beat him. Didn’t play in the conference championship game. No Heisman winner. 1st round loss. 65th recruiting class. (16th in the B1G). 11-3 record, 0 bowl wins, 0 ranked wins, 0 conference appearances. Sorry bub, Cigs is good and on the right track but has a long way to go to surpass BK’s success thus far.

I didn’t even address Kirby Smart. Cmon dude you serious? He was handled a 10-3 highly ranked perennial contender from Mark Richt. Born on 3rd base and it still took him 6 years to win a NC. And Billy Napier suckkkks. No way anyone thinks he’s more success than BK at this point.

Thank God for a 12-team playoff otherwise neither team is in the CFP. If there was a 12-team playoff in 2022, LSU is in. Sorry man, facts don’t lie.

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quote: BK hires great assistants. Uh....really? Matt House...Great? Those initial secondary coaches? Great? Brian Polian....great? I'd say Brian Kelly's been a mixed bag on hiring assistants...at best

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Why did you deliberately OMIT the rest of my comment? Oh right, it’s because it didn’t fit your narrative! The REST of my comment (ya know the part that you didn’t include) clearly says “some better than others.

That said, just because a guy doesn’t work out doesn’t mean he sucks — Matt House coached UK as DC and their defense was 6th in the nation. Then he went to KC Chiefs and went to 3 SB’s with them, winning 2. And their defense was high ranked. Given those accomplishments how could you know he wouldn’t do well at LSU? I mean, I know YOU and ONLY YOU knew it was a terrible hire because you’re a Swamy with infinite wisdom. And Brian Polian is another - hired specifically for ST and recruiting. Two areas he excelled at under BK at ND.

How come you never mentioned any of his others? Marcus Freeman, Mike Denbrock, Bob Diaco, Clark Lea, Mike Elko, Matt LaFleur, Brian VanGorder, Butch Jones, Tommy Rees, Mike Elston, Slade Naigle, or any of the guys on staff now - Bo Davis, Corey Raymond, et al? Conveniently left them all off. I wonder why.

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Love the silence from the Kelly haters

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The silence started this week after Brady Quinn went on a podcast (Two Pros and a Cup of Joe) to rail BK, thinking he was slamming him. He actually validated exactly what BK has said - that Swarbrick was a cheap f**k and didn’t want to spend money and he didn’t have the resources and support to win a NC. Quinn said after BK left the organized a collective, raised millions for NIL, built a new state of the art training facility , all the stuff BK wanted. And Freeman still came up short. So what’s the excuse? BK got to exactly where Freeman is with far less. I like Freeman but he isn’t better than BK.

I like Freeman and I think he’ll be fine. ND will be fine. But calling him a “better coach” is pretty premature. BK talked about not having the resources to win a NC. Brady Quinn confirmed that in his most recent rant - they launched the collective, raised millions for NIL, built a new state of the art facility (all things BK wanted) AFTER he left. So Freeman had all the resources available and still came up short against an OSU team that scared nobody. BK took his teams to the playoffs and a NC game with far less than what Freeman has. It’s pretty obvious who the better coach is.

I wish I could upvote that more than once!

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say what???

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It’s Bama. They can be 0-12 and the AP will rank them.

Is this assuming he’s not banging any more college coeds and there’s no other sex scandals too? I know we’re in fantasy land and doing hypotheticals so just making sure i understand the whole scenario before commenting

I can’t stand OSU and grew up ND fan. So pulling for ND.