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5-6 years ago, I would never have considered it. But the game has changed so much that we are closer to an NFL model than college football that literally everyone grew up watching.

The man knows football, particularly defense. Austin T has personnel. At this point Kelvin just has to be a closer and I think he would be great at it. He will command the podium and learn the politics. The biggest issue is can he assemble a great staff and manage the organization. This is something he has to do before we will know for sure, but he will have a lot of help. The number of real football people both within and without LSU that will want him to succeed is off the charts.

Is he a risk? Yes, no doubt. But the Kelly hire was the least risky, highest floor hire we could have made, and the program is crumbling before our eyes. Given his experience, his floor is lower than some, but his ceiling...

I have no problem with this hire and would be excited by it. However, he doesn't have Marcus Freeman's clean-cut GQ look and find it difficult to believe that THIS Gov and This BOS would accept him as the face of the program.

They seem under the influence.

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If we're being honest.

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A bad call should be a shock. By the instantaneous reaction of #5--before the refs could even reach for a flag--he knew what he did was borderline at best.

In..

Against. We certainly should go to a 9 team schedule, but we should play everyone home and away in no more than a 4 year time span. Amazes me at the number of people who hate being part of the entire SEC and just want a scheduling agreement with a separate conference.

But it does echo our origins. For years the SEC was a group of separate cliques that didn't play the same number of conference games and in some instances rarely played each other.

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and T-Bob snapping the ball early, iirc


It wasn't early. It was just in the nick of time. He saw the time expiring and knew he had to snap the ball, ready or not.

I love that it is 3rd down and there's 25 seconds left. Normally plenty of time to clock the ball. Plenty of time to even just run another play. Somehow Les screwed both of those things up.

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Once a play starts the game doesn't end at 00:00, but when the play is finished (assuming no penalty). T-Bob snapped the ball at :03, meaning that there was fraction more than 3 secs remaining. Watch any football game; that's actually quite a bit of time.

T-Bob didn't see shite. He didn't know how many TN players were on the field and he didn't see the clock. He simply did not trust his QB.

Crowton was the immediate cause with his stupid play calling that required substitutions.

Miles has overall responsibility for not have his staff prepared for this obvious situation.

T-Bob couldn't hold his water and got lucky that TN bailed us out. His only defense is that was a long time to hold water, but he should have.

Here is the detailed official tie-breaker rules with examples:

Detailed Tie-breaker rules with examples

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Barbe and Sam Houston are in Acadiana?

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Apparently that's how it's legally defined. What you or I would think of Acadiana is the Cajun Heartland. From Wiki (See link for map):

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In 1971, the Louisiana State Legislature officially recognized 22 Louisiana parishes and "other parishes of similar cultural environment" for their "strong French Acadian cultural aspects".[13] It made "The Heart of Acadiana" the official name of the region, although the term Acadiana is the more common name for the region.[14] The official term appears on regional maps and highway markers.

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The relative total scoring margin will be determined by a formula that involves a team’s offensive and defensive scoring averages relative to its actual scores against SEC teams. A team’s formula will include a cap of 42 points scored on offense and 48 points allowed on defense.

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The conference is still without a permanent football scheduling format. The SEC will continue with eight games this season and at least in 2025, with home-and-away opponents for 2024 being flipped for next season.

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