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That whole dancing spotlight recruiting video was pretty cringe as well.
That's why it's going to be super awesome when we run the table.... BY RUNNING THE DAMN BALL!!
The FGR does have its own issues and there's no foolproof way to compare graduation rates for the student body compared to athletes.
The problem is the NCAA goes too far in the other direction and disincludes all "left eligibles", i.e. players who left the school that were academically eligible. No effort is made to track what happens to these players, and the requirements for being eligible are pitifully low (AFAIK it's a sliding scale that goes as low as 1.8/1.9 GPA for sophomores/juniors).
Factor in the quality of education (there are teams who might have upwards of half the players major in "university studies" or something generic and easy, nothing that conflicts with team activities, etc.) You can succeed academically and athletically but it requires way more effort than it should if this was really an "amateur" sport.
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In his defense, Kelly is laughing all the way to the bank. He could retire (and might) with what LSU is paying him to go away.
4 years or 8? big difference.
Except for when Targeting is committed against Tech. They have not thrown the flag multiple times and the both has not initiated review either.
So in other words they cooked the numbers to show what they wanted.
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Lawyers always go for the biggest bag.
Check out a short essay called After the Fall by Jon Krakauer as well as The Death of Common Sense by Philip K. Howard to see how it is not who is at fault that gets sued. After the Fall is especially good at showing how, even if a product is clearly misused, the manufacturer still gets sued and it is often better to settle and pay a lot but avoid bankruptcy and liquidation on the 1% chance that there are enough idiots on a jury to side with the "victim".
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/570397/after-the-fall-by-jon-kr...
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Common-Sense-Suffocating-America/dp/0812982746
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Congrats to Scott Woodward for being responsible for the 2 largest buyouts in CFB history
Its hilarious because the reporting is that Kelly, after famously not bringing like any of his coaches to LSU from notre dame, got fired because Woodward wanted him to fire his OC and Kelly refused and threatened to fire even more assistants if he was forced to do so, they argued, and then Woodward fired his ass AND still fired the OC.
Congrats, BK, you played yourself.
also, his super fake and super cringy southern accent that magically appeared out of nowhere when he was announced as the LSU head coach. Saw a clip of him talking to fans in their basketball arena (I think) and it was really weird to hear him talk with such an affected southern drawl.
Does this:
https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/research/gradrates/2023/2023D1RES_GSRTrends.pdf
compare the numbers any better?
The pushback I would give here is that big-time college sports already devalues education to begin with, so it's hard to say what value players are getting from their degree compared to an average student.
For instance, the graduation rates for football and MBB have historically been well below the student body average. Instead confronting this head on, the NCAA just pretends the problem doesn't exist by manipulating the numbers. Primarily by removing all transfers out ("left eligibles") from the denominator but including "transfers in" in the numerator... which is just absurd given that (1) it artificially lowers the denominator and (2) it reinforces the idea that retention isn't important.
Even the ones that do graduate are funneled into easy majors and classes and have a harder time getting jobs and internships (+going to office hours) because of the time commitments of their sport. Granted, a lot of those kids wouldn't take advantage of it any way, but that's a complete indictment of the system that low-performing academic kids are brought in and treated like they are workers at a job.
There should be more guardrails in place, but the players also need to have the freedom to make decisions and live with the consequences of them. JMO.
LSU fired their Offensive Coordinator today too
Kiffin has reportedly received an offer from Florida. Reportedly $81M.
Should I have put /s next to my comment to make the pun more obvious?
Ok yeah I remember you saying that all season. I strongly agree with that first point.
I don't agree with the second and third arguments. I think we'd be much more competitive with some of the Heisman candidates. I don't think Mullen or Kill could elevate Drones to top 20, although he would be improved.
So is Drones "good" or not?
IMO he's in that middle 50ish. IMO there's not much differentiating the 20th best QB from the 75th.
Or would he be "good" if Mullen was here?
I think he'd be a lot closer to 20 than 75 lol
How in the f*%# did we get to this point in college football that a string of losses (and I won't even call them bad) results in a coach getting canned with a massive buyout because the expectation is national-championship-or-bust???
Every LSU coach since 2000 has won a Natty in their first 4 years at the program. This was Kelly's 4th year.
Every season, BK's LSU team has gotten (marginally) worse, with a ceiling at 10 wins.
The standard is the standard. And the standard at LSU is win a Natty within 4 years. Coach O did it, Les Miles did it, Nick Saban did it.
So is Drones "good" or not? Or would he be "good" if Mullen was here?
Oh I agree completely, and it's probably why he felt comfortable doubling down on not wanting to fire his OC. It's just funny to me because the response was "ok, then you're both fired"