BLyonsTiger

Why not? Early commits have a much higher chance of sticking even with NIL. He is from Louisiana, and we have pulled in several recruits in the top 100 in the NIL era.

There’s no reason to be negative about the commitment at this point. Some of y’all need to learn to enjoy good news when it comes.

They look dope

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I can't think of any coach that has said "I want to be a coordinator for my whole life" and leave it at that.

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There aren’t many, but some guys are more than happy to just be a coordinator and not have the heat that a head coach takes. Bud Foster and Phil Parker are two good examples. I

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Is Brian Polian the worst coordinator of any unit in the country?

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Our special teams are terrible and need to be fixed, but no he isn’t the worst coordinator in the country. That “honor” goes to Brian Ferentz.

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May I ask who LSU has beaten that could have a winning record against a 7A high school schedule?

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Belmont is a pretty good squad. They are ranked 56 in the Kenpom. Tenn’s best win is UNC who is ranked 37th.

SoS in Kenpom for LSU is 173 while Tenn’s is 232.

I’m not saying that LSU is better than Tennessee, but beating a good and not great UNC team isn’t the datapoint to prove it. LSU’s defense is elite at this point, and we will find out just how good it is once conference play starts.

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I haven't figured out why Christobal would make the move to Miami.

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He was born in Miami, played for Miami, and coached at Miami.

The guy has exceeded expectations at both of his prior jobs. Toledo and ISU are extremely hard placed to win at. Outside of his first season at ISU, he has never finished lower than 4th in his conference as a head coach.

Why can’t he compete at a high level when given the tools that we can give him? Again, he isn’t first on my list and he certainly has flaws, but so does every other candidate we are looking at..

There has been a lot of talk regarding Matt Campbell’s ability to recruit. The chart below shows how both Matt and Paul Rhoads recruited to ISU based on the national composite. Clearly, this doesn’t tell the whole story, but Campbell has improved recruiting in recent years after establishing himself.

The class this year isn’t done and will likely fall, but it would still be an improvement over where ISU’s recruiting was under Rhoads. Does this mean he can recruit at an elite level at LSU? Who knows? But at least we can argue off of some established numbers now.

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Nomar garciaparra was my favorite player. Would he be considered overrated by today’s standards

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He was overrated in the sense that some people were claiming he was going down as one of the best shortstops ever. He had an amazing slash line in Boston of .323/.370/.521. His OPS+ was 133 and racked up 41.3 WAR over those 9 season too. He would still be considered a really good player even in the analytics world.

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they dont have anyone that considers them a primary rival

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Exactly this. I think a&m was heading that way, but with Texas joining it will be hard to see it reaching primary rivalry status now.