Thorny

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Fony Clayton is gonna own them. They are gonna also sue the shite out of those playoff committee assholes for lack of response to Hutson and Chambliss

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I don't think Wright and Harris will be able to establish standing for action against the playoff committee. Yes, their executive said something about pro players, but there was never a specific threat or a failure to rank a clearly qualifying LSU into a position of selection. The timing of all of this has let the CFP off the hook.

The SEC could lose millions, though.

JMHO.

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Maybe, probably if he sticks around long enough. This could be his last stop to the promise land in college football.

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There is literally nowhere else for him to go in college and actively coach.

1) At this time, LSU has the combination of resources and willingness to spend them that means he has everything he wants. Does Bama have more? Does Texas have more? Does Michigan have more? Maybe, but not all that much more. Not enough to convince him to leave the set up he has now.

2) Like it or not, Kiffin has been associated with all of the drama that went on over the last month. He was no more guilty than anyone else (and was accused by the SEC of things that didn't happen), but he has a reputation and the drama fed it. None of the above schools who might have more will and resources than LSU are going to stick their neck out for the drama. While certain fans at those schools might like hiring him away from LSU, the big money people won't put up the cash.

The above means that the issues following his departure from Ole Miss and Tennessee are irrelevant, overcome by events. For him, LSU is his ride or die, especially the way Dr Rousse and Verge backed him up.

I also don't think he's going to he NFL.

There are only two options for how this ends:
- LSU succeeds under Kiffin and he stays here a long time, perhaps winning championships.
- LSU doesn't succeed under Kiffin and he ends up on the set of College GameDay.

I think the first is more likely.

GEAUX TIGERS!!

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Yes, but if we scored the touchdown instead of the FG, it would have been 32-31, so our last drive would of been a FG to win it 34-32 , that crappy 3rd down play came down to haunt us, just my 2cent.

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That's not correct.

If we had gotten a TD instead of a FG to tie, that would have given us a 28-24 lead. This means Chambliss' TD would put Ole Miss up 30-28 prior to the PAT. Only an idiot coach would go for two up two. That would have made the last drive TD to win or FG to tie.

Not that football is that linear.

Unfortunately, Wade's situation is very different from Kiffin's.

This year's basketball team will not have a quality roster. Any expectation that they will compete for the post-season this year is unreasonably optimistic (if we do, Wade should be national coach of the year). You are hiring Wade because you think he is a long-term winner, not for this year.

Additionally, Wade is as polarizing as Kiffin is to the rest of the league (though for different reasons.) The talking heads will let people forget Nate Oats played a former G-League player, but they will never let us forget Wade's "damn strong offer."

Now, I think Wade is a good hire. But, we are going to be the villains and for this reason, we're going to be hearing a lot from fans of other teams every game we lose (and there will be plenty, even if this team wins more than last year.)

GEAUX TIGERS! BOOT UP!

Question for those who go to most games (and are there at the end).

It's a well known fact that when they get a win over Bama, Auburn's band plays the Rammer-Jammer cheer back in their face. I don't mind so much, because I think that cheer is in poor taste on Bama's part in the first place.

But in the last few years I'm seeing many more examples:
-- Vandy playing a video of Nick Saban saying how easy it is to win there after their win over Bama in 2024.
-- Vandy playing Calling Baton Rouge after their win over us last year.
-- Ole Miss playing Calling Baton Rouge and Neck (despite the LSU band not playing Neck for over a decade) Saturday night

Has the LSU game ops people done this for a big win, say like Bama in 22 or Ole Miss in 24?

LSU fans have gotten too loose in rushing the field for my taste, but this new trend seems to to say "bush league" to me.

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I guess you'd have to ask those specific people. I have no problem with his age. I have no problem with Ole Miss doing all they can to make him eligible.

I have a problem with this conference picking and choosing when they want to determine eligibility.

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THIS!

Several hundred players have been declared ineligible for various reasons by the NCAA and then gotten a TRO or preliminary injunction prohibiting the NCAA from enforcing their ineligibility. All but two have ended up being put on a roster.

Now, you may reasonably argue those two players should not have gotten TROs because they don't fit into the same bucket as the rest. However, the NCAA has had three chances in court to demonstrate that and haven't been able to do so.

So those two players are being treated differently for one reason: The SEC created a rule AFTER they got their TRO and then threatened to expel LSU from the SEC for the mere rostering of them. They sued in federal court to try to establish their right to prevent LSU from trying to claim damages if such an expulsion happened, going so far as including the Louisiana AG as a defendant essentially for submitting an Amicus Brief supporting those two in response to the SEC sticking their nose into the case.

Really, all the SEC had to do is to write the rule they ended up with during the May spring meeting and apply it to every player who did NFL OTAs. That's it. This would have prevented any of the feelings from LSU fans that we are being targeted by the SEC. The players may not have sued the NCAA at all if their only choice would been teams from the SWAC or SunBelt. And, after the Charles Bediako affair, they should have seen this coming.

You either follow all TROs or you open yourself to accusations of bias and hypocrisy. You also might find yourself having to defend yourself in court.

GEAUX TIGERS!

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Saban didn’t have a $50m roster bro.

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LSU's NIL is around $42mil, not $50mil (the latter number is an exaggeration by GTHOM fans)

GTHOM's NIL is around $35mil. This isn't exactly David and Goliath. Yes, LSU pays $7mil more, but as others point out we were building new and the law of supply and demand still apply.

Oh, and Saban was paying players plenty (just like pretty much everyone was).

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Expectations are high. And I say that I’m shocked, but I’m really not. Every loss this happens. Every single one. It’s like clockwork.

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Nick Saban called it Catastrophe Syndrome way back when we loved him.

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CBS commercial breaks were maddening

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If I were the commissioner of college football, TV commercial timeouts would be limited to one and a half minutes. Nobody in the stadium wants to watch a guy hold a countdown clock for five minutes so the people at home can watch the same Fansville commercial three more times during the game.

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We had the state AG speaking out on what was at the time a legal matter. That is not remotely on the same level.

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The GA AG spoke about upholding legal action against LSU when he had no standing and when he had no idea that LSU was not a party to the Pyburn v. NCAA lawsuit that the SEC decided to stick it's nose into.

The LA AG submitted an amicus brief in the Pyburn lawsuit and got named as a defendant in the SEC v LSU lawsuit as a result.

So, yeah, these things aren't the same.

GEAUX TIGERS!