I doubt Fick is even on the conversation. Now Kelly to UCLA or Wiscy. That’s a definite possibility
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Nutriaitch
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I'm going to touch on this on our podcast this week.
Why were Saban, Miles, and O (as well as 3 Baseball coaches) all able to reach the mountaintop at LSU but Kelly wasn't?
those 3 all got to LSU at a point in their careers where they all still had something to prove. They all knew LSU could provide all of the pieces to be able to prove it, but they also knew that THEY had to prove it. And all of them did whatever it took to get there. They approached the job with the same passion the fans have for the team. They chased Championships. And all 3 got one.
Kelly came here with just one piece missing from his resume. Probably was getting into the Hall of Fame even with that piece missing.
Kelly approached the job as if LSU being LSU would be enough on its own to bring a title to him. He didn't chase it. He expected it to fall in his lap. It was like he truly believed it was ND's fault he didn't already have one and that LSU would just give him one if he just graced us with his presence.
And honestly, the team even looked like they too thought they just had to "show up" to win.
and as we all know, College Football doesn't work that way.
you have to go out and take it.
yeah LSU has every conceivable tool you'll ever need to win titles. But if you don't use every single one of them, you ain't gonna win one, because somebody else out there is using all of his.
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Honor&Glory
Paper,Rock, Scissors, Lizard, Spock!
Say what you will about the current state of CFB and NIL..
Winning still comes down to basic fundamentals and principles. Chief among those things, to me, are people skills and having charisma. Kelly is a self serving arrogant prick. He rubs his players and coaches and fan bases the wrong way at every turn and in true Massachusetts politician form he excels at the double speak and blame game.
He can sell himself better than a hooker at a port city does to sailors. But unlike those whores who will give you a good time for your STD diagnosis, Kelly gives you nothing in return.
I laughed when LSU hired him. It was never a good fit.
Honestly the best fit for Kelly is in Ann Arbor. Those arrogant jack offs are made for each other.
I don’t care for the SEC but I’ve always admired LSU because my mom (Slidell, LA) like them. ( I just wish they would wear the purple jersey with the yellow pants and lids because it’s the most perfect uniform in football outside of Columbus).
They could have done better than Kelly. They need to hit a HR with the next coach because NIL had evened the national playing field and coaching matters even more now than just stacking players.
Nutriaitch
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I have my preference on the next guy, but probably not going to get him
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Nutriaitch
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oh yeah, that's what we need.
a career .500 coach that hasn't been on a college sideline (as a coach) since before Bill Clinton was elected president.
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Nutriaitch
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and if it happens, the entire fanbase will bitch about the contract it would take to pry him away from Nike U.
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Kelly is such an unlikeable person. I love all the stories coming out from the I hate Kelly people that worked under him or played for him. Even Bobby Knight, who would throw daily tantrums to the press and players and assistant coaches, was likeable. It's like he is trying to pull off the Parcells/Saban/Belichick persona without the results and without an underlying personality.
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No offense intended but, perhaps one reason may be because those coaches arrived at a time when the SEC set the standard for back-handed payments to players. Looking at this from the DEEP South with a Yankee perspective, the possibility that NIL levelled the playing field was implied by Saban's recent interview saying that kids were looking at SEC schools differently in the NIL era.
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Nutriaitch
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not going to deny stuff like that was happening.
the point was more that those coaches took LSU as an opportunity. But still put out the effort required to get to the top.
Kelly honestly seemed to think he would magically win a title because he was wearing an LSU shirt.
and was appalled that people had the audacity to question him when things weren't going well.
Miles was a buffoon, and O never should have made it higher up the ladder than a deckhand on a shrimp boat. But both those guys really did work their asses off here.
if you listen to Saban speak on the subject, it's the entire system that changed and why he got out.
Saban was a master at taking in underclassmen and completely indoctrinating them with his "system". They never left (because they couldn't with transfer rules). Everything was all about what was best for the program. And those kids after a few years of that indoctrination became basically machines. One machine graduated, the next machine plugged in and took over. 17 years of doing that and kids wanted to be a part of it because it got them to where they wanted to be.
Now, these kids care only about the money. And if you don't give it to them they leave. If you don't hand them the starting spot, they leave. "Pay me and Play me".
So you end up with a roster of kids that half of them are just hired mercenaries that have not been through the indoctrination camp. And guys you spent a lot of time indoctrinating are now playing for the rival.
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