Bestbuck36 said:

Spoiler Alert:

We're going to be really fucking good.

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ScriptOhio said:

We now know why Lane Kiffin is so determined to add former NFL players to LSU's roster and it's not the reason we were led to believe

We now know why Lane Kiffin is so determined to add former NFL players to LSU's roster and it's not the reason we were led to believe

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We now know why Lane Kiffin is so determined to add former NFL players to LSU’s roster and it’s not the reason we were led to believe​

LSU head coach Lane Kiffin has created plenty of headlines over the last few weeks in Baton Rouge.

Lane Kiffin and the LSU Tigers have made headlines over the last week for their attempts to add former NFL players to the roster.

The assumption from many has been that Kiffin felt LSU needed more talent to compete for a College Football Playoff spot this season.

That assumption is wrong.

This isn’t about LSU’s roster being insufficient. Kiffin went into the summer believing his $50 million roster was good enough to compete. And sure, he probably thinks these former NFL players can make LSU even better, but this isn’t a situation where he believes the Tigers have to have former NFL talent in order to truly contend. This is about something much simpler: Kiffin trying to prove he can do something the SEC is telling him he can’t.

Lane Kiffin has always been driven by defiance​

People close to Kiffin have pointed out that he is driven by this kind of thing. When someone tells him he can’t do it, it makes him want to do it even more, regardless of whether it’s worth it.

“Those who know Kiffin best swear he wouldn’t want it any other way,” wrote On3’s Chris Low this week. “The more he’s told he can’t do something, the more hell-bent he is on doing it, even when the risk doesn’t seem to be worth the reward.”

“He’s one of the best coaches in the game, and for some reason, that’s not good enough for him. He lets things drive him sometimes that shouldn’t drive him,” added somebody who’s known Kiffin for decades to Low.

It’s not just those around Kiffin saying this. Kiffin himself told reporters earlier this year, while discussing his trip to Knoxville to woo quarterback Sam Leavitt to LSU instead of Tennessee, that he doesn’t do well with being told no.

“I don’t know. I just know how I do things,” said Kiffin. “There’s a good and bad to it. I’m extremely competitive, and I don’t really do well with no — that just makes me more competitive when someone says no. So sometimes that happens in recruiting, they say no. But I think that’s my job. That’s my job to LSU.”
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SEREbuckeye said:

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BuckeyeNation27 said:

And if YOU paid any attention at all, I've said what you say about blanket treatment vs how you defend every action they take and paint every move they make with the glowiest of glows tell 2 different stories.

So again.......can you understand how, to an outside observer, somebody who tries as hard as you're trying to make it seem like poor wittle ol LSU are the real victims here....whether you want to say you are against the NFL players coming back to school or not.....your actions are pretty much the same as somebody who wants to win at all costs, right?

No, but you've said they're just sitting there innocently waiting for a ruling and just gosh darn it trying to build the best dad gum team they can. After all.....that's the only thing sweet sweet Lane Kiffin can be asked to do, right?

LSU are the aggressors here. LSU is putting up the statue of Liberty outside campus asking for your tired, former NFL, eligibility challenged masses yearning to play football again. In spite of the SEC saying don't do that.

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exhawg said:

Around a year ago I didn't really know anything about EV's. My wife's minivan had 90K miles and was losing coolant, but not dripping, so we traded it in and took the EV incentive right before it expired to get a plug-in hybrid. She gets 32 miles of battery range every day so her fill-ups went from every week to every month outside of road trips. That was the tipping point for me, where I went from looking at something like a Maverick to an EV. My daughter turns 16 soon, and my old car is 13 years old, so my plan was always to get something for myself and give her my old car.

The second half of this year was supposed to be the used EV apocalypse, with thousands of EV's coming off of 2-3 year leases and flooding the market to lower costs. Thanks to high gas prices, prices have kept going up all year. I had been keeping an eye on the market and ended up falling down a rabbit hole learning about the Fisker Ocean after seeing a bunch of them at a dealer over in Toledo. There were a million reasons not to get an Ocean, but I pulled the trigger back in May and love it so far. My endgame is for the Ocean to hold out long enough for the new Ford Fathom to come out and get some miles under it. I really like the idea of used EV's since a healthy modern EV battery should last hundreds of thousands of miles, so if it's healthy after 50K miles, it should be good to go. In the rare event they fail, it should happen pretty quickly, but they all (outside of the Ocean) have 8-year, 100K-mile warranties on the batteries.

For anyone who can semi-easily get a 240V line in their garage, the cost savings are huge. I had already run a 240V line to my garage for my generator so I just had to get a charger. I wouldn't recommend an EV for anyone who would have to rely on public charging. Having to spend an extra hour charging on a road trip once or twice a year is a fraction of my time saved by starting out every morning with a full charge. This summer my son had a tournament in Detroit. I left with a full charge, and the hotel had free charging, so all my travel and return were free. I've only used a fast charger once, just to make sure that it worked, because you have to do that with an Ocean.

The EV tech coming out of China right now is crazy. It's already making it to every place other than the US, which won't last forever. Cheaper, full charge in 10 minutes, more range, minimal cold weather range loss, etc. In 5 years EV's will cost less than ICE cars, and most of the things that keep people out of EV's will go away. My guess is it will be hard to buy an ICE car in 10 years. I think Ford gets it with their UEV platform, but if the Chinese EV's make it into the US with less than a 50% tariff, the Big 3 will have a hard time staying in business unless they get their asses in gear.

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RB07OSU said:

This has to be the least I've followed an off season with how busy work has been. I guess the plus side is game day came quick and I'll be surprised. Go Bucks! Can't wait for some crazy horse doing workout GIFs tomorrow.

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ORD_Buckeye said:

Where did the fool who drafted him end up?

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ORD_Buckeye said:

Where did the fool who drafted him end up?

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BuckeyeNation27 said:

@BB73 but like, for real......can I have my point and a half? I think it's a point and a half more than grad got.

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