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Chicken f'kn little syndrome

Posted on 12/8/21 at 8:15 pm
Posted by grizzlylongcut
Member since Sep 2021
14721 posts
Posted on 12/8/21 at 8:15 pm
Listen, Brian Kelly has been a head football coach for 30+ years. If y'all don't think that he has/had a plan upon getting hired by LSU, then you're incorrect. Nothing in his entire head coaching career shows otherwise. He's got a giant Rolodex of coaches to call on, both from his coaching tree and not. There's a reason he's had massive amounts of success at every single stop. It's because along with being an incredibly capable football coach himself, he can get quality coaches to come coach under him and buy in. You don't win 75% of your games by luck.

He develops a plan, then goes out there and executes that plan. Compared to the two previous head coach, who could not hire a single coach himself of any repute to come here and coach for him, I feel like we're in an ok spot with the new one.

Maybe Raymond didn't want to get on board and go along with the plan? Maybe Raymond tried to strong arm Kelly into promoting him. All I know is, in order to have sustained success at a high level in any field, everybody must be pulling in the same direction. If you've got people wanting to go their own way, do their own thing, not get with the program, you cut em loose or let em leave. Want to know the one constant at Alabama? Saban. Want to know the one constant in New England? Belichick. Want to know the one constant of the Yankees of the late 90s-2000s? Torre.

Behind every highly successful organization, there is always one person at the top forcing everybody in to pull in the same direction. I think Kelly is that guy here.

And hey, maybe Kelly ain't that guy. That's the risk you take when you make a new hire at the helm. But I feel like we got it right this go around. Kelly has the personality and the cache to get everybody going in the same direction as is evident by his 30+ years of success.
Posted by TigerLunatik
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Jan 2005
105533 posts
Posted on 12/8/21 at 8:16 pm to
Oh lord, here come the alters.
Posted by Sampson
Drusilla and Jefferson
Member since Mar 2012
25040 posts
Posted on 12/8/21 at 8:19 pm to
Trying to convince the panicky, short-sighted, emotionally triggered, low educated reactionary contingent of the Tiger Rant to calm down is wasting your time. They will all be convinced that the program is forever going to shite because that’s just the way they are wired.
Posted by TigerInGrayton
Member since Nov 2021
861 posts
Posted on 12/8/21 at 8:22 pm to
Logic won’t go ever well here where the majority of posters are miserable POS that just want to perpetually complain
Posted by Florida Horn
Member since Dec 2021
30 posts
Posted on 12/8/21 at 8:51 pm to
"He's got a giant Rolodex of coaches to call on . . . ."

This may be true in terms of quantity, but it's definitely not true with respect to quality. His staffs his first 7 years at ND were filled with GVSU and CMU cronies and were extremely weak. After going 4-8 in 2016, cleaning house was a condition of him not getting fired. He replaced both coordinators and for his last 5 years at ND generally assembled much better staffs. But for Mike Elko orchestrating a massive turnaround on D in 2017, Kelly would have been fired. You should hope 2016 was a wake up call and a realization of what it takes to compete at the highest levels. If he reverts back to his 2010-2016 hiring practices, he will fail at LSU. I'm very curious to see who he brings in as his coordinators. I think that will be very telling.
This post was edited on 12/8/21 at 8:53 pm
Posted by grizzlylongcut
Member since Sep 2021
14721 posts
Posted on 12/9/21 at 9:48 am to
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Oh lord, here come the alters.


I mean, it does nobody any good by freaking the frick out over Raymond, or Johnson, or Smith, or anybody leaving. It's going to take a strong personality to get everybody going in the same direction. Nobody should be above reproach. Yes, that also includes the players.
Posted by LSUcajun77
New Orleans
Member since Nov 2008
24195 posts
Posted on 12/9/21 at 9:53 am to
I love these threads.

I mean I love the Kelly hire, but these threads always make me laugh. Like people with a different opinion are going to read your wall of rambling and decide to change their mind. I’m sure the aggressive title will do the trick.
Posted by grizzlylongcut
Member since Sep 2021
14721 posts
Posted on 12/9/21 at 10:03 am to
Does absolutely no good to freak the frick out when the guy hasn't even been here a month.
Posted by White Tiger
Dallas
Member since Jul 2007
15590 posts
Posted on 12/9/21 at 10:05 am to
All educated people agree with this. Actually, it should go without saying, but we are dealing with tRant here.

Posted by Curtis Lowe
Member since Dec 2019
1685 posts
Posted on 12/9/21 at 11:01 am to
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"He's got a giant Rolodex of coaches to call on . . . ."

This may be true in terms of quantity, but it's definitely not true with respect to quality. His staffs his first 7 years at ND were filled with GVSU and CMU cronies and were extremely weak.


You sir are a moron. Please note the following:

2010 Original Staff at ND

DC Bob Diaco - 4 years at ND and left to become HC at UConn

OC Charley Molnar - 2 years at ND and left to become HC at UMass

DL Mike Elston - 12 years at ND current DL coach

DB Chuck Martin - 4 years at ND left to become the HC at Miami of Ohio

OL Ed Warrinner 2 years at ND left to become the Co-OC/OL coach at Ohio State

TE Mike Denbrock 7 years at ND left to become the OC at Cincy

WR Tony Alford 6 years at ND left to become AHC/RB coach at Ohio State

RB Tim Hinton 34 years of coaching experience left to become special asst to HC at Ohio State

OLB Kerry Cooks 7 years at ND Part of purge left to become Co-DC for Bob Stoops at OU.

3 of 9 became head coaches, 3 ended up being hired at OSU (Alford still there), one still at ND, one is the OC at Cincy and Cooks in now at LSU.

2011 no changes to coaching staff

2012 Molnar, Warrinner and Hinton left

OL Harry Hiestand 6 years at ND left to become OL coach of Chicago Bears

TE Scott Booker 7 years at ND Moved to Nebraska for a year then on to the Tennessee Titans.

S Bob Elliott coached for 3 years at ND, moved to Special Asst to Kelly for 2 years due to a 20 year battle with blood cancer that required kidney transplant and died in 2017.

Nothing weak in those coaches. Kelly knows coaches.
Posted by grizzlylongcut
Member since Sep 2021
14721 posts
Posted on 12/9/21 at 12:23 pm to
quote:

Nothing weak in those coaches. Kelly knows coaches.



It's almost as if a good coach can spot other good coaches.
Posted by Fat Bastard
alter hunter
Member since Mar 2009
89871 posts
Posted on 12/9/21 at 12:25 pm to
quote:

Does absolutely no good to freak the frick out when the guy hasn't even been here a month.




agree but most our fanbase are football ignorant and prefer shouting their over reactionary hyperbole from their keyboards.
Posted by ChenierauTigre
Dreamland
Member since Dec 2007
34719 posts
Posted on 12/9/21 at 12:26 pm to
Posted by Fat Bastard
alter hunter
Member since Mar 2009
89871 posts
Posted on 12/9/21 at 12:26 pm to
quote:

All educated people agree with this. Actually, it should go without saying, but we are dealing with tRant here.



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