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Lane Kiffin discusses year one expectations and how he teaches his tempo.
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LSU held its first practice of spring.
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Afterwards, Lane Kiffin met with reporters.
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He dove into a lot, including his offensive tempo, which we're going to unpack here in
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But let's start with Lane Kiffin first talking about some of the availability, and mostly
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this new system that LSU in their offense is going to be working through.
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Not into that, especially offensively, a new system coming in, and then a ton of movement
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from the previous roster, whether it was leaving or whether it was going off to the NFL
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with a number of good players that left.
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So we've got to come in and we spend a lot of time, you know, kind of sitting to Michael
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walking down like, you know, guys, don't mistake because, you know, you see me doing things
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around the community, or prayed, or Marty Grah, or concert, you know, that there isn't
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relentless pursuit at greatness here in effort, and the way that we work, and the amount
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of time spent in this office, and that, in my opinion, that's the only way to do it.
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And it's especially the only way to do it nowadays because you have to do so much, so fast
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with so many new pieces.
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And like you mentioned, offensively, all the new coaches coming in, all the new players
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There's a number of carry-over and a number of coaches in skiing, being the same.
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Relentless pursuit of perfection.
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I love how he mentioned.
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He's very self-aware.
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This is something that I'm learning about Lane Kiffin, and I think most of us would probably
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have the same observation.
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Since Lane Kiffin got hired at LSU, he's done very little by way of formal media.
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He did his introductory press conference that Monday, he did a post portal signing, or
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the February signing day press conference, and that was it.
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That was it until the press conference after the first press conference of spring.
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So since Lane Kiffin was hired on December 1st, he's met with the media three times.
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Three times since December 1st.
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This December, January, February, now almost the end of March.
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In four months, he's like three times.
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But think about how visible he's been in the community.
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He referenced it, parades on stage at the Boosey concert in Damien, St. Paddy's Day, he's
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at Pickleball Courts, he's at Restaurants, he's at these coffee bars, he's very on social
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media publicly out there showing you all the things he's doing in his social life, which
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I think is wonderful in the ways he breaks into the community, but he wants to make sure
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that when I get a twist to think like he's out there playing, oh no Lane, we also see
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the 5 a.m. tweets of you tweeting the coffee pot at football ops or leaving football ops
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at 10 o'clock at night.
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I don't think anyone is denying the work ethic and the level of buy-in he has and how much
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they're working to build this thing and build it quickly.
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Quite honestly, he's here.
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Now, the most important part I think obviously is going to be getting his quarterbacks in
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line to run this offense and he kind of talked about the off season these quarterbacks
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I think they've done a good job of coming in all being new again to a new system, no
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carry-over and they've done a really good job including Sam and he's obviously been
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limited physically, but they spend a lot of time up here, a lot of extra time, they've
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done a really good job because it's a lot on that position in our system because they
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They're really like the point guard.
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If they don't know what they're doing really well and they don't drive it, the system
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doesn't work as well as it has for a long time.
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Remember, in by the way, I'm going to dive a little deeper into the system in the tempo
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here in just a quick second, but I love how he said it's like a point guard, but also
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remember, remember, a lot of times people misuse the word unique.
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In a literal sense, unique means only one.
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So I do think this season at LSU Football is unique.
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I'm not sure, certainly not in my lifetime, we have ever quite literally seen a season
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where every scholarship quarterback was gone one year to the next, even with coaching
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I mean, you had three scholarship quarterbacks last year.
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You had Garrett Nussmire, Michael van Buren, Colin Hurley, they're all gone.
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You had to completely make over that room with your scholarship quarterbacks.
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So we have quite literally never seen this before.
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So you have three new quarterbacks, scholarship quarterbacks coming in to run an offense.
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They're not familiar with it.
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And you heard Lane Kippen there say how important it is.
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It's like the point guard.
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So listen, quarterback is the most important position in organized team sports, but some
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systems require you to function differently as a quarterback within it.
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And that sort of this thing, like here's Lane when he was asked about the tempo with which
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He references the quarterbacks again.
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There's a whole system to this.
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And I really got exposed to it, you know, only hard Kindle Browse at FAU in the Baylor
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system of how spread it is in the tempo and the receivers playing right and left.
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And there's a lot of little things within that.
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So that takes some time too.
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You know, it's almost like, I don't know basketball, well, but since basketball is going
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on, you know, if you went in, you're going to press all game, you know, and you had to
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get players into that conditioning, you know, like Arkansas back in the day in basketball.
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40 minutes of health.
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Like, that's basically what it's like.
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So that's a lot of physical condition, but mental condition and it all starts with
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this quarterback is like I said, he's the point guard pushing everything.
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So there's a ton that goes into that.
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One of the things he referenced was Chip Kelly's blur offense back at Oregon, unless you
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got familiar with that, unless you opened against Oregon in 2011.
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And I understand now that's been 15 years.
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So there's some people who may not remember this.
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I was covering the team at the time and one of the things that I remember about covering
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that 2011 LSU team that was preparing for Oregon and actually former colleague T. Bob Abert
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was on that team and he's talked about this a bunch is from the first day of spring.
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From the first after the 2010 season, from the first day of spring practice going into
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that opener against Oregon, everything was Oregon's tempo, everything LSU did conditioning
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About this with Tommy Moffat, LSU's legendary strength and conditioning coach at that time,
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everything was preparing for that Oregon tempo.
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So getting your line been ready to go 70, 80, 90 plays if you have to and getting on the
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ball and getting ready for the next snap.
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Like it's so rare to see that type of system, even in a hurry up, no how to world in which
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we live to see a team that does that almost exclusively from first whistle to last.
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And that's how they operate this is that's something we all are going to have to get
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We would see it once you're watching LSU, you'd see it once a year when you play Ole Miss,
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when you play Kiffin Squad.
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But when that's your offense and that's going to be the norm every single week, yeah, that's
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going to take conditioning for your entire team, but also the quarterbacks to understand
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how to function going that fast.
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Yes, that is very, very important.
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The other part of it obviously is the defense because now the LSU defense is seeing this
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It's not that a nice conversation with the defensive line, you know, at the end of
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practice, like there's so far away of understanding how you have to play like from a conditioning
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standpoint physically, but then a mental standpoint.
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And when you play tempo, so on offense, what we do, and then when you have to defend it,
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there's a lot of mental to it, you know, it's a long, really fast game, okay, that you've
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got to do a lot of stuff really fast.
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Like you're going to get the fastball pitcher every pitch, every inning, pulse gains.
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So that takes a lot of getting used to and our defense about front as long ways to go.
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And that was apparently, but I like that because we're giving them the hardest tempo they're
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going to see all year already.
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Incidentally, I do love the way that the footnote there where he said we're giving the defense
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the hardest look they're going to get all year, which is true.
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Because you're going to face a lot of tempo, you're going to face teams that go fast,
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but none as fast as the team you're facing.
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What I will be interested to see, and I'm not here to spin everything to the positive,
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because we've seen varying degrees of success for Lane Kiffin's defenses at Ole Miss.
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Last year, that was a top 30 defense.
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The year before they were top 10 defense, when you had all the great transfers, Walter
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Nolan, Prince Lumeon Miellen, Chris Paul Traumas, that great defense from 2024.
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Now that season went nine and three for Ole Miss, but they were super and supremely talented,
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especially on the defensive side of the ball.
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Suffice to say, even seeing that weekend and week out, they didn't always have the greatest
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So, I'll be fascinated because this is the type of thing, especially with a mobile quarterback
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where if there is a knock on Blake Baker and a style in the system, with some exceptions,
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like when they played Green and Arkansas and Fayetteville two seasons ago, they really handcuffed
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But dealing with mobile quarterbacks, if it was Trinidad Chamberlain or Diego Pavia,
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the guys who could make things happen when things would break down, that sort of has been
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the Achilles heel of this defense, I think it's fair to say.
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So, maybe sharing some trade secrets being in the room together could help.
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One of the things that Lane said, if you remember, is introductory press conference.
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I really stood out to me.
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So now that we're going back four months, but you see, one of the benefits, great benefits
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he had was growing up around some of the greatest defensive minds in the game.
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If it were Nick Saban or his dad, Monty Kiffin or Pete Carroll.
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And as an offensive guy, going sitting in defensive meetings to say, okay, what are they thinking
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about what I'm doing, right?
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And so as an offensive guy, now you might have better idea of how to attack them.
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Well, reverse that here with Blake Baker.
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So Blake Baker now has the opportunity to listen to Lane Kiffin and his staff talk about
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how they would be attacking him.
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So then he can reverse engineer that defensively, hopefully that's a great benefit.
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But again, long, long way to go after one practice in spring.
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There's so much expectation year one under Lane Kiffin, mostly because of all of the resources
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LSU is poured into this era, the 54 million a buy up, Ryan Kelly, the 91 million commitment
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to Lane Kiffin, the 3 million committed to Blake Baker, 2 and a half million for Charlie
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Weiss, the 40 plus million for the roster.
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You talk about a ton if you're in every day or you've heard us talk about it.
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But it was interesting hearing Lane Kiffin talk about expectations.
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I want to play this sound light for you from Lane talking about these year one expectations,
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but it's not so much even just him talking about the expectation.
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There's two things buried in this sound light that struck me that I'm curious if it struck
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So I'm going to play this for you.
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I don't want to see if you notice the same two things I did.
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These things can be really scary.
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So we don't really look at it that way.
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We don't have goals and say, okay, we need to have this many wins or play else.
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We don't we don't talk that way because that's really outcome based, not process based.
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And a lot of those things are determined by things out of your control.
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And that's not easy.
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I was actually sitting there during an offensive meeting today and Charlie was up here running
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and I looked up there.
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I don't know how to give my math is, but in 18 years, only three times has this program
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been in your six games.
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It's a hard thing to do.
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So I don't set, hey, this is what we need to do year one because that really doesn't
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It's much more about the day to day process and always trying to find a way to improve
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our players and coach better and get into the highest level.
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Two things I noticed.
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So Lane Kippin isn't showing away from what the expectations are on this program.
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It's why he's here, right?
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He came here because he felt like he had the resources here to win and consistently win
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championships and LSU has given him everything he's asked for.
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But the two things, number one, when he said we're having a staff meeting in here and Charlie
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It's all about Charlie White's in offensive meeting.
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I don't think that was a throwaway line.
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I don't think that was by accident.
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By the way, I think Lane Kippin is really smart and really calculated.
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I don't think there's much he does that is without thought.
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Even down to the way he posts on social media, the pictures he shares, the things he retweets.
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I don't think he's just on Twitter hit and retweet.
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I don't think he's just on an Instagram story.
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I think he is very thoughtful about the way he positions a photo or the language he uses
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or how he answers questions and a press conference.
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And I think that was very intentional.
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So as to say, so as to crop up Charlie White's there, because I, we, I think a lot of us
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just assume Lane Kippins offense, Lane's Kippins team, and he was saying, because he could
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have just, just as easily said, you know, look at these numbers up here.
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And if you've never been what he's referring to in the team room at LSU, it's an auditorium
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And at the top of the room, there's across the top of the room is all the years of the
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significant, the national championships as he put it to New Year's six, you know, the
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sugar fiesta orange, peach, all that sort of stuff.
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And all those years with corresponding goals and logos are up there.
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He could have just as easily said, look at the top here.
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Look at these years.
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It's three and 18 that this program has been to a New Year six.
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He didn't have to mention I was here in an offensive meeting and Charlie was running it.
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I think he is continuing to try to elevate, intentionally elevate Charlie White, so our
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perception of Charlie White's maybe what his reality is of what White's role, the significance
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of Charlie White's role.
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And then the other thing there, him saying the three and 18, he's not wrong.
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But I think in, in one, on one hand, he's acknowledging the very real and large expectations
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that this program has in year one and will forever have with him and whoever is the
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coach because of the resource and the buy-in.
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But he's also telling you there, keep in mind, your norm is not New Year six.
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That's not your norm.
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Your norm is, and by the way, LSU's norm over the last decade and a half to two decades
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That's the average.
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LSU is generally an eight and four and nine and three football team.
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And then every year, every now and again, boom, you'll pop a big one.
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You know, I don't know about his math, the three and 18, but you can look at the 2019 season,
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the 2018 season when he went to the Fiesta Bowl and you go back to 2011 when they played
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for the national championship.
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But it's been few and far between, even if you want to count 2010 with the Cotton Bowl,
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remember the Cotton Bowl at the time there was no New Year six.
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That was still in the, in the BCS era before we even got to the 14 playoff era in 2010.
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So the Cotton Bowl wasn't even at that level yet.
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So I think what Lane is saying there is, listen, yeah, I know we got outsized expectations
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and I'm, that's our goal is to win at that level.
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I'm not going to state a year one goal, but remember, remember what this program is year
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But the reason he's here is to exceed those expectations, to raise that floor and elevate
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the standard that's been here at LSU to avoid the seven and six of a year ago or the,
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12 and 13 that LSU was the last two seasons under Edozer on whether it went five and
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five in the COVID year and then six and seven the following year when Ed was fired in 2020.
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So it's all to say there is obviously always going to be tremendous expectation on LSU
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football and Lane Giffin is embracing it, but I think he's such a thoughtful calculate
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with guy with the way he says and presents things.
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You know, one of the things that nobody's going to want to hear is his patients while
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you turn over 60 players on your roster, implementing this new system with all the tempo, tons
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of new coaches, how quickly can you realistically boom hit the ground running?
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Well, you better figure that out quickly because it's Clemson week one, Louisiana Tech week
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two, and then you're in Oxford week three at Ole Miss for a game that is going to be
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maybe the marquee game as far as theater on the entire college football calendar for 2026.
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Of course, we'll be following it all the way along.
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So the Tigers will be back on the practice field Thursday.
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It's player interviews afterwards, but I'm going to keep diving into a lot of what Lane
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Giffin had to say during that introductory press conference here on Loftone LSU.
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