Right. We lost on DC applicants because of our NIL- literally nothing to do with Lebby or where he stands at State. DC's want dudes and in this era you need money to buy dudes.
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I'm in Louisiana and literally everyone I come on contact with talks about how they see us on the rise. Liked our offense.
Our AD doesnt look down on our coach when he is coaching a bottom tier budget team. Neither does other people. That 3 yr contract Arnett got tells me Lebby will be our coach in 2027
Our NIL situation isn?t permanently hopeless but it is the number 1 investment we need to make on campus. I?m talking academics too. Keenum needs to encourage as much money to be donated to NIL as we absolutely can. Everything will benefit from it. Selmon understands this he?s just been playing catch up since he took the job.
NIL + Donor Contributions had us ranked 34th in the country at $23M. We are not poor so stop with the bullshit narrative.
Total Contributions Rank in SEC -- National ranking in (parenthesis)
1. Texas - $77,974,073 (#1)
2. LSU - $75,929,827 (#2)
3. Georgia - $74,315,945 (#3)
4. Florida - $61,364,272 ((#7)
5. Texas A&M - $54,204,110 ((#9)
6. Alabama - $53,113,300 (#11)
7. Oklahoma - $43,180,134 (#13)
8. Auburn - $36,372,783 (#18)
9. Tennessee - $35,483,274 (#19)
10. Ole Miss - $34,409,478 (#20)
11. South Carolina - $33,833,869 (#21)
12. Missouri - $29,555,704 (#24)
13. Kentucky - $27,938,279 (#29)
14. Mississippi State - $22,612,228 (#34)
15. Arkansas - $22,165,941 (#35)
16. Vanderbilt - N/A (Private School)
Two things can be true at the same time. Our NIL is not bad in the scope of college football but it is compared to other SEC team. At the same time, Lebby made some bad coaching decisions against UF and Texas. Our NIL is more on the lines of an above average ACC and big 12 team. If we want to compete in this league we need our boosters to open up the pocket book
You can blame Lebby for Texas 100%
The Tenn/Fla blame is based on maybe's. He could have bled the clock and won the Texas game maybe in spite of our stupidity hitting the QB late. Lebby didnt hit the QB I'll remind you.
But the Tenn and Fla games were tooth and nail. We didnt make the plays when needed. It happens
Now do B1G and Indiana specifically!
I don?t really blame Lebby for the Tenn game. They clearly had a talent advantage and just had a better team. I actually thought he did the best he could there. His decision to not kick the field goal against UF though was clearly on him and his decision in the 2nd quarter to run the same QB run over and over was poor coaching.