CrippleCreek

Kelly never lost to anyone as bad as this Arkansas team in 3+ years, and the home games were never in serious doubt in the 4th quarter, but sure.

He’s been mentioned by every CFB personality for every major opening all season. His agent is obviously trying to get him a raise and to strip whatever is left of admissions standards/transfer restrictions for football at ND. Nothing more.

I think he would be an incredible hire, but I do not think the obvious push to get his name floated everywhere is related to anything other than negotiations at ND.

It’s not just last Saturday. The RB run game has been successful for a month, we just never run the ball.

Against Scar: 24 RB carries for 138 (5.75 YPC)
Vandy: 19 RB carries for 113 (5.9 YPC)
aTm: 15 RB carries for 97 (6.4 YPC)

LSU has already completely overhauled the personnel department.

At this point, I am not sure what Kelly even really has authority over. Probably not personnel/roster, and he doesn’t directly oversee either side of the ball. There’s been suggestion he didn’t even really have autonomy on the Baker hire.

Kelly thinks he came here to save us, but the fanbase, rightfully, thinks LSU always offered him more than he offered LSU. That’s why he left ND to come here.

He has not communicated anything in a way that reflects that since the alignment talk in his first PC. He “fit” fine when he was hired, but he forgot LSU is the star of this show sometime shortly after he got here. That’s the disconnect.

He’s here to capitalize on the LSU brand and history of success, but he acts and talks like he’s trying to fix a fundamentally broken thing. Maybe it was that screwed up when he showed up, but it’s hard to sell that to a fanbase when they watched a natty 4 years before you were hired. His tone and message just lacks a basic understanding of the expectations and experiences of the fanbase.

He doesn’t look or talk like he cares much for the way CFB is run these days. If he wants out of the mitigation obligations to “retire” maybe you can work down the buyout.

I assume the FO buildout has been done to stay around and manage retention of the investment in the roster. So you shouldn’t have to turn too much of that over.

Most of the guys anyone would want to retain on this staff are loyal to LSU more than BK. Is there anyone you’d want to keep around that isn’t an O holdover other than Peoples, and he’s more tied to Baker.

One thing you have to do is get somebody with some players on board. One of the most underrated problems with BK hire is that he brought none of his players. It really exacerbated the roster issue.

I don’t care if Brent Key is a GT alumn. If you can get the OC and some players to ride along, that’s where I’m going. He’s been bleeding high end players to the SEC. I just don’t think the right offer wouldn’t move him regardless of his connection to the school.

The scripted stuff is truly awful, and should probably be delegated to somebody other than whoever is doing it currently, but we had 5 60+ yard drives. Moved the ball consistently and in chunks, ran the ball well for the most part, and were balanced.

Feels like a good week to cut Sloan some slack.

I think Kelly thought they were going to body bag Ole Miss. The game week rhetoric sounded a lot like FSU in 2023. Obviously wrong, but that would explain the decision not to shut Nuss down against SELA when you combine it with thinking he was improving.

The decision to play against SELA also wasn’t made knowing we were going to OM without Durham. As mad as the telestrstor made everyone about him a couple weeks ago, he’s clearly the best back and would have gotten more than the 2 touches the RBs got in the first half. Without him you can’t hide Nuss against anybody.

Played the whole game without Durham, the whole second half without A Anderson, and Trey Green still clearly limited. They don’t come close to fixing everything, but once you lose those guys, the skill talent is average at best on this team.

Add a clearly injured QB and you’re screwed. The “solution” to the extent there is one, is to get healthy over the bye, and make sure Berry is ready to be a real player on this team splitting the load with Durham. 10+ touches each.

And, while scheme won’t change, BK has to call the game in an analytically sound way. Complimentary football with this defense/offense combo isn’t long field goals and conservative punts. It’s aggression on 4 down territory because the D can back you up. It doesn’t matter how shitty the offense is, taking 4 cracks to get 10 yards is hard to stop. See the last TD drive.

Got to find a way to go 3-0 over the next stretch before the bye, and win one of Alabama/OU. Break it into chunks and it looks more manageable.

LSU moved the ball fine from the second quarter until the moment Johnson and Nuss gave the ball away on back to back plays.

Everything else was being conservative and playing field position.