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Agree with this take. If he had busted his tail in the offseason and played like this. I would just say he isn’t good enough and at least gave it his all. However, it appears he didn’t do that. When he is being paid as much as he is and gave the effort he gave, he gets little to no sympathy. The other responsible parties have either been fired or will be at the end of the year. His lack of preparation was a major reason we are currently sitting at 5-4. He is now having to live in the mess he created by not preparing beforehand.

No not at all. I think he is a good coach but wouldn’t be excited about the hire.

OH NO!! Fans thought their new coach would win! What a shock!! How do you know we won't find anyone better than him? Do you think he is a great coach currently? Do you think he did a good enough job to still be the head coach at LSU? Also, what exactly makes you think Florida is a better program than LSU? Lets compare resume's of both schools:
Florida - 3 national championships (Last 2008). 8 SEC Titles. In this century, they are 214-106 and 127-73 in the SEC, not including this year as it is still ongoing.
LSU - 4 national championships (Last 2019). 12 SEC Titles. In this century, they are 242-82 and 136-64 in the SEC, not including this year as it is still ongoing.

So, looking at that, how exactly is Florida a better program than LSU?

I think it’s a two things can be true at the same time situation. I don’t think he got a fair shake this year with our o-line, OC, running game. That being said, he has made some really bad decisions with the ball this year that have nothing to do with anything previously mentioned. There have been reports that he didn’t train as hard in the off-season as Burrow (2019) and Daniels (2023) did and it has shown!

No! One of the best things Coach O did was get out of the way offensively and let those coaches do their thing. Kelly would meddle the mess out of that team!

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I'll say this, he had more talent than LSU last year - without question and he lost.

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That's a good point that you bring up. He clearly has issues, I would never say he is a homerun hire by any means. What I do believe is that he is a better head coach than we currently have. I do believe that he would be able to assemble a better team at LSU than he could at Ole Miss. I do understand that he has issues and seems to either get too caught up in the moment or just makes boneheaded mistakes at times that seem to cost his team a game every year. Having said all of that, I have to be realistic about what coach we could possibly hire at LSU. The coaches we would be able to get will come with either 1. issues, like Kiffin, or 2. inexperience. I personally would rather take Kiffin over someone with no experience being a head coach.

Here are Kiffins seasons at Ole Miss vs the same seasons at LSU along with where they finished ranked at the end of the season (the rankings are according to the AP Poll that made a final rankings after the bowl games/playoffs):
Ole Miss from 2020 through 2025
2020 - 5-5 - unranked
2021 - 10-3 - #11
2022 - 8-5 - unranked
2023 - 11-2 - #9
2024 - 10-3 - #11
2025 - 6-1 - #8
LSU from 2020-2025
2020 - 5-5 - unranked
2021 - 6-7 - unranked
2022 - 10-4 - #16
2023 - 10-3 - #12
2024 - 9-4 - unranked
2025 - 5-2 - #20

So, since Kiffin has been at Ole Miss, they are 50-17 and have ended the season ranked in the top 12 in 3 out of 5 seasons. If we had this same playoff format, they would have made the playoffs in 2 of 5 seasons. They finished top 11 last year but didn't make the playoffs as they were ranked #14, when the final pole came out to decide who would go to the playoffs, and were one of the last teams out. In that same time frame, LSU has gone 45-25 and have finished ranked 2 out of 5 seasons and wouldn't have made the playoffs in the current format one time! He is an elite recruiter and play caller and is having this much success at a school that is no where near as well-funded or having the in-state talent as Louisiana has compared to Mississippi, which is not bad but not near what Louisiana has produced. To think that a coach as good as Kiffin would have success at LSU when he has had as much success as he has had at Ole Miss isn't that hard to understand.

There nothing. He had about 10 other plays where he ran himself out of the play. He has ZERO awareness and ability to change directions. This causes him to overrun a play, which he did multiple times yesterday. Pavia had a great day, no doubt, we also helped him about as much as we could.

Yes, every LSU QB not named Burrow and Daniels and even they did it sometimes. We have had some all-time level QBs that did that. I still think Max Johnson was one of the worst I have ever seen. It wasn’t just that he would run into sacks as much as he seemed to do it 30 yards behind the line of scrimmage!

The issue isn’t just one lone boneheaded play. He makes decisions like that multiple times a game. He doesn’t seem to have improved the thing he needed to improve the most: decision-making. Simply put, he makes really poor decisions through games that will cost us in coming games. He missed people who were open Saturday on multiple plays. The INT is a great example of this. The announcer said he should’ve read the safety and then threw to 12, who was the corner receiver running open for an easy TD. Instead, he read the linebacker, not the safety, and when the linebacker blitzed, he thought the middle was open and threw it. He read the wrong player, decision-making, and created a huge turnover that could’ve cost us the game. We have 3-4 more games where those type of decisions will determine winning or losing. Sadly, he hasn’t shown any consistency that would make me believe we will win those 3-4 games. Hopefully I am wrong but I wouldn’t be shocked if we lose our next 3 games or 2 of 3 and then lose to OU