[qwerty49]

Bottomline, Kim was one of the first coaches - men or women - to go big on Nil last year by hiring someone to exclusively deal with Nil partnerships. And so it’s no surprise to me that she was able to get the #1 player last year in the portal (Angel) and the #1 player this year in the portal (HVL). HVL is a fabulous student. AND Kim is just good at connecting with kids, has a big personality, her kids love being around her and she has EVOLVED not slowly but quickly and has hired the right people around her to help her recruit, evolve and relate to the players.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent. And frankly if getting someone pass Admissions is so hard, then Tara should have done a better job keeping her players that she recruited. It’s just one excuse after the next.

"Excuses are tools of the incompetent?"  I'm sorry, that one has to go into the blowhard bluster HOF.

I appreciate your posts and perspective, and yes, at times I agree with you.  But c'mon...do you know for sure that Tara had the same power to pursue NIL that Kim did?  Do you know for sure exactly how LSU and Stanford view NIL, and what, if any restrictions or reservations they might have put in place?  Do you know who makes those decisions re NIL at LSU vs at Stanford?  Unless you do, I don't think you need to be criticizing Tara on that front.  There are plenty of other things we can debate about without making presumptions.

[qwerty49]

Bottomline, Kim was one of the first coaches - men or women - to go big on Nil last year by hiring someone to exclusively deal with Nil partnerships. And so it’s no surprise to me that she was able to get the #1 player last year in the portal (Angel) and the #1 player this year in the portal (HVL). HVL is a fabulous student. AND Kim is just good at connecting with kids, has a big personality, her kids love being around her and she has EVOLVED not slowly but quickly and has hired the right people around her to help her recruit, evolve and relate to the players.

Excuses are tools of the incompetent. And frankly if getting someone pass Admissions is so hard, then Tara should have done a better job keeping her players that she recruited. It’s just one excuse after the next.

"Excuses are tools of the incompetent?"  I'm sorry, that one has to go into the blowhard bluster HOF.

I appreciate your posts and perspective, and yes, at times I agree with you.  But c'mon...do you know for sure that Tara had the same power to pursue NIL that Kim did?  Do you know for sure exactly how LSU and Stanford view NIL, and what, if any restrictions or reservations they might have put in place?  Do you know who makes those decisions re NIL at LSU vs at Stanford?  Unless you do, I don't think you need to be criticizing Tara on that front.  There are plenty of other things we can debate about without making presumptions.