And The Valley Shook

Corey Raymond plucks a top-65 overall player away from Texas LSU got a pleasant surprise Sunday afternoon as four-star cornerback Kade Phillips announced he would be flipping his commitment from Texas to the Tigers. BREAKING: Four-Star CB Kade Phillips has Flipped his Commitment from Texas to LSU, he tells me for @on3recruitsThe 6’1 180 CB from Missouri City, TX had been … [Read more...] about Kade Phillips Flips to LSU!

SCOTT CLAUSE/USA TODAY Network / USA TODAY NETWORK Special Teams improvement? Hello? Anybody??? To me the weakest unit of Brian Kelly’s LSU tenure has by far been special teams. The offense has obviously been great, the defense—though awful in 2023—was pretty good in 2022, but the special teams has been flat out bad through two years and there’s a chance the 2024 unit … [Read more...] about 2024 LSU Football Position Preview: Special Teams

Matt Pendleton-USA TODAY Sports Corey Raymond’s back, but how big of a turnaround can he manufacture in just one year? The biggest reason why LSU’s secondary struggled so much in 2023 is also the simplest: they just weren’t that talented. I don’t mean to diminish the college kids from last year’s roster. They are of course exceptional athletes and far be it from me to … [Read more...] about 2024 LSU Football Position Preview: Secondary

SCOTT CLAUSE/USA TODAY Network / USA TODAY NETWORK Matt House’s new toy Among the many, m a n y reasons Matt House was let go at the end of the 2023 season was due to his awful and at times seemingly purposeful misuse of the LSU linebackers—his position group mind you—specifically Harold Perkins. All last summer we heard that Perkins and the coaching staff was intent on … [Read more...] about 2024 LSU Football Position Preview: Linebackers

vIQtory Sports 2nd Look at Blake Baker’s Defense: What happens behind the blitz? The much-discussed foundation of the incoming LSU defense is pressure. While there are near-infinite ways to configure a blitz, the additional numbers in the pass rush whittle down your coverage options considerably. The main attraction of blitzing is the pressure, but the success of a … [Read more...] about Pressure Coverages 101