West Bank Dan

Since nobody else is volunteering - can I be a sauce??

I agree that his combine / pro day will be huge for him. Scenario #1: agent sells narrative “injured all year but healthy now” and Nuss throws beautiful passes (with no pass rush) and goes in 2nd round. Scenario #2: scouts ask him to throw 40 yards downfield (with no rush) and he is inaccurate and sails a few then drops to 7th round. Ie there won’t be any hiding the truth standing 10 feet in front of the scouts watching his mechanics. He literally might be better off hiring a QB coach and prepping for combine NOW.

Yes, football is entertainment and I support going full circus at this point - have Kelly show up with his LSU polo on ready to coach on Saturday and force the school to admit he has been fired by not letting him on the sideline. Think how many times the cameras would pan over to him during the game…. They’d have to either say he is suspended or “elevate him” to advisor role and put in booth.

You know that tired cliche coaches say in these circumstances “ ___ gives us the best chance of winning”. Frank Wilson wants to interview at end of season saying he won his last four games. He’s been watching both guys in practice all year.

On top of that, do we not all realize that the NIL sponsors who ponied up for Nuss can threaten to not pay future players going forward if the coach doesn’t play their guy? I mean, this is the world of NIL now. The sponsors have the coaches by the balls.

I am also in the “why would Kiffin’s come here?” camp. He can go 10-2 the rest of his career and never get fired. These days, NIL sponsors do the recruiting for you. So the only reason I can think of is if our NIL budget is 3x Ole Miss’s budget.

He will play Florida and LSU against each other and then sign a huge extension with Ole Miss and probably admit afterwards what he was doing just to troll us ha ha.

Two plays vividly stand out for me: on the now famous “he’s the worst QB spy ever” play, HP made a last second dive at Reed who simply side-stepped him like it was a non-contact drill in fall camp. Later while an A&M was fighting into the end zone the A&M player hit Perkins, Perkins didn’t hit HIM, and Perkins was sent backwards, like out of the end zone. Do we ever sample test players before a game to see if they are stoned?

Many my age remember the 80s when we weren’t mediocre - we were bad, like 3-8 bad. We all turned our attention to baseball which was kicking butt. We then saw Tennessee drop off after Fulmer for literally a decade and it we fear going in a ditch for 5-8 years. Now with NIL we can buy a new team every offseason.

Getting back to the point: crazy to think we were pre-season #3 and our QB was the Heisman front-runner predicted to go in top 5 picks in draft, maybe #1. But, crazy year all around - ask Texas, Penn State and Florida State how they’re feeling.

This game has a weird 37 - 16 vibe to it, either way, and everyone after says “I knew it all along!” Ie Tigers are for real! or Vandy is for real! I am betting on the former…

I was watching live when Fournette trucked that DB and he rolled over like a dead bug. Makes me laugh every. single. time.

Try to think of it more as variety. One year we will get Bama / Texas / Tenn / Miss State and the next year we’ll have Auburn / Florida / OU / Georgia. It is about to become a real meat grinder. Every game will be huge - better than bowl games.