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re: Most expensive benign cyst in history of sports

Posted by Datbayoubengal on 4/21/26 at 3:49 pm to Alt26

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LSU still had Joe Sloan in charge of the offense. That was the much, MUCH, bigger problem. That offensive approach was awful and no QB, including a healthy Nussmeier would have had any real success in it. Listen to any former player who followed LSU. They will tell you that. If you listened to Hester and Flynn they, nicely, implied the offensive approach was horrible. After BK was ousted they were more direct in speaking about just how bad the design and play calling was. For example, one said "It might help if you have more than 1 and half running plays so the defense doesn't know exactly what it coming every time." Or, "does LSU (i.e. Sloan) know you are allowed to throw the ball over the middle of the field?" This isn't people on the Rant saying that. It's guys who played high level football for years.

You know what pisses me off the most? A fully healthy Nuss and the OL we had in 2024 (which was mediocre at best) beats Ole Miss, Oklahoma, Vandy and Bama. Remember after going up by 17 in the first half, Bama only scored 3 points in the 2nd half. We actually were only down by 10 points vs Vandy going into the 4th quarter. Both teams stalled out with back to back 3 and outs in the fourth after we kicked that FG to get down to 7. Only on their final drive did they start moving the football again.

A healthy Nuss and half decent OL alone gets us to 11-1. Just like not having the worst defense in LSU history in 2023 gets us to 11-1.

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If you want to reduce BK's failure to one decision, it was the decision to let Denbrock walk in what was ultimately an effort to sign Underwood. BK didn't fully appreciate that recruiting now is really just contract negotiations. It DID NOT matter that LSU invested years and money in building the relationship with Underwood. In the end, the bigger contract offer won out.

If LSU had paid Denbrock, the run game wouldn't have fallen off a cliff either. I showed these numerous times, but LSU's RBs as a unit averaged over 5 yards a carry in Denbrock's offense. Literally the same OL the very next year who had 2 years of starting together, only mustered 4.3 ypc from the RBs. Look at what Denbrock did his last year at Cincinnati and what he has done at Notre Dame too. Only 2 RBs from 2021 to 2025 at 3 different schools have averaged under 5 yards a carry for him. Both of those guys averaged 4.89 and 4.93 yards respectively. This is a double digit number of RBs too.

That's why I keep saying to not blame the blocking strictly on Brad Davis. The RBs had few problems running behind those lines in Denbrock's offenses.

It's crazy that both Miles and Kelly died by the OC sword.

Datbayoubengal

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