Both teams will start off the 2022 football season with a new head coach, Dennis Allen for the Saints and Brian Kelly for the Tigers. As a result, no one really knows how their tenure will work out and or if it will lead to a consistent winning program. To debate the past under coaches Payton and Orgeron is best forgotten and rest in the history books of their own making.
THE NEW ORLEANS SAINTS:
Saint's sport writers are giving their backing to Allen and predicting good things for the Saints. But reality tells us being a success at head coaching is much different than being a defensive coordinator. The responsibilities are greater on Allen now because he is responsible for the whole team, its direction and even for the decisions his coaches make. His only tenure as a head coach was with the Raiders for only a few years and was replaced and all who follow sports have learned that great assistant coaches that were appointed head coaches never turned out well. So Saint's fans in 2022 will just have to sit back, tune out all the hype of the sport's media and judge for themselves.
THE LSU TIGERS;
Brian Kelly has a great won-loss record, most coaching Notre Dame, an independent school that belong to no Conference. The question that needs to be answered and will be in time is: How well will Kelly do coaching LSU in a Conference loaded with talent that he will have to face playing five or six SEC teams each season and then a Conference championship game if LSU qualifies. That is not a trick question!!! LSU has made the BCS playoffs only once in the 8 years of its short history so Kelly and LSU will have something to shoot at that other teams have accomplished several times.
This writer suggestion to Saints and LSU fans is to just chill out this coming season, forget about all the hype and cliches of the sports media, take it as it comes and do not pay attention to what you hear on Bobby Hebert's radio show, "Sports Talk."
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
