Datbayoubengal

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They also seem to have issues developing talent. Besides the 26 draft they've averaged 3 to 4 players a year drafted.

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transfers are allowing everybody a chance to have more draft picks.

TAMU's top 8 draft picks (the ones who went in the first 4 rounds), 5 of them were transfers and 3 of those transfers were one and dones. The remaining 3 guys who stayed with them from high school were OL and DL. Out of the people who usually get drafted from TAMU, they were usually OL, DL, or LB. So now they can get transfer DBs and WRs and it works in their favor.

It's actually scary how consistent it is since Jimbo. Every now and again you'll see a DB or WR in the top 4 rounds in TAMU's SEC tenure, but if you go over just Jimbo's tenure (2019 draft through 2024 draft) of their 15 top 4 round picks, 11 of them were trenches or LB. Of the other 4, two were RBs, one a QB, and one a TE. Also, if you go after Elko's first year, all 3 draft picks were DEs.

So over a 7 year period before 2026, of their 18 top 4 round picks, all 18 played the closest to the line of scrimmage and only 4 didn't play OL, DL, or LB. TAMU had a myriad of 5 star and high 4 star DBs and WRs, and none of them panned out until they started getting them from the portal last season.


That will get you the 8-4 moniker all the time. Good line play with a good run game will keep you consistent, but it won't get you a championship.

With all that said, IDK why they are waisting so much on high school players. Money isn't the only thing making them leave.

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But… I was told if frank left we would lose our leverage on Louisiana kids!

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So you're saying we didn't just go get Ed O a few weeks ago, again SHOWING that we need a strong Louisiana recruiting presence on staff?

Some of you people just DO NOT get it :lol:

Please tell me we get Segarra. That is an NFL RB.

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Consulting is by definition paid work.

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Yeah but this is words from the guy who did the article, not from Kelly's mouth. It's more like a phone conversation.

Oh my God we are bringing back the juking RBs. Now we could end up with two of these guys that make people look silly in a phone booth. He has 4.4 speed too I can tell.

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He's a former wr transitioning to RB full time.

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So that's where the cutting ability comes from. Man he looks dangerously elusive. LSU hasn't had a great juking RB in a long while.

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Dude. He was a cheat when we got him from Michigan State. He didn't lure some of those Florida athletes up to East Lansing because of his personality. I recall talking to another LSU fan about this the week we hired him.

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People acting like they forgot Jimbo alluding to this shite just a couple years ago talking about his time at LSU with Saban.

Anybody taking up for him on this are hypocrites too. Dodge chargers and stacks of money for any good kid coming in as a freshman. Social media had this everywhere.

Yeah he has a cool pod. I think he just graduated or graduated last year from LSU. He gets some good sideline video at practice and during games. Several of his youtube shorts and tiktoks of LSU have gone viral (the one when Baker juked the DB at practice was almost everywhere).

It's an LSU sports podcast, but he talks about the Saints and Pelicans too.

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I hope they go after him for any money they may have paid him

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They already restructured his contract to pay him less money upfront. They aren't going to go after whatever they already paid him.

Unless he finds a loophole, he can't play the FBS this year.

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Her contract is through 2033. Fulfilling that contract (7 more years) is way more realistic than 3-5 in the absence of health issues or taking a major step back. She's only 64

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yep and female basketball is WAAAY less stressful than any male sports. She has enough money to spend, young women get into less trouble than young men, the hours are way less demanding than being a football coach, and she still has legit goals to reach at LSU. Becoming the Queen of the SEC ladies basketball, and winning at least another championship. Plus she's home.

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Get the lines right and they can make up for the back end

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I tend to disagree. Mascona was talking about how LSU's staff view pass rush vs CB coverage and they think because QBs aren't as accurate as NFL QBs, that a good CB unit takes a backseat to pass rush. That is a flawed thought process because not every year do you get easy opponents at QB. Last year we saw an outlier on terrible QB play in the conference. The best QB Ole Miss played last year was Gunner Stockton or Carson Beck. Stockton was decent at best and Beck racked up stats in a bad ACC.

Ole Miss's pass rush was worst last year than 2024 and 2023 however they had a better pass defense. You know why? Because of the QBs. Before 2025, Ole Miss's pass defenses from 2021 to 2024 were between the mid 50s and mid 80s in that span the SEC was loaded with good to heisman level QBs. Seriously go look at the QBs Ole Miss played just the last 2 years where they had way better pass rusher, but both pass defenses were in the 70s and 80s. I've always thought Ole Miss's CB play was bad outside of Trey Amos, and when Matt mentioned it, I 100% understood why. They don't prioritize it. That's why I'm glad we have Raymond.

I'll give you another point. Look at LSU's pass rush in 2022 compared to their pass defense. LSU was almost a top 30 pass defense while playing air raid Leach who's QB threw for 3900 yards and 35 TDs. Bryce Young's final year, a 6th year senior in Jordan Travis, a 5th year in Hendon Hooker who was having a heisman level season before injury. You could say KJ Jefferson had a similar season to Gunner Stockton's 2025 year and Stetson Bennett was a better version of Carson Beck from 2025. Even first year Jaxson Dart was average at worst. Now go check how good they were in getting to the QB in 2021 and compare it to the pass defense. You know what the difference was? LSU had a bad secondary in 2021, but the 2022 secondary. LSU had all these heavily experienced multi year starting CBs and safeties we got out of the portal. Bernard-Converse, Mehki Garner, Greg Brooks, Joe Foucha, added to guys like Jay Ward who was already here.

I will say it again. A good secondary can hide a mediocre or bad pass rush. We had a top 40 pass defense despite being middle of the road in sacks and pressure. We also played a much better group of QBs than Ole Miss did. A good pass rush can only hide a bad secondary if the QB isn't really good. This year there are many playmakers at QB in the SEC. Several are legit dual threat studs.

When you get a top tier pass defense with a top tier pass rush, you get the 2016 LSU defense (5th in country), or the 2010 and 2011 defenses.