How LSU Stole DC Blake Baker From Missouri!!!

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Matt Moscona reacts to LSU hiring Blake Baker as its new defensive coordinator. We recap the coaching path for Baker and recap his time at LSU as the linebackers coach. We also break down as to why the player reactions from Matt House’s dismissal and Bakers hiring are a sign that players are bought in.

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News cycle so Color Me surprised when on Friday uh my wife and I are at dinner with some friends and then my phone starts to buzz that the Blake Baker news got released on on Friday night about 8:00 um we um if you were here last week we

Talked a little bit about it things had gotten really sincere on Thursday with Blake Baker um the last I was told Thursday night was that Blake Baker had his LSU offer Eli drinkwitz had gone to meet with Baker to try to convince him to stay at missou and Baker wanted the

Night to sleep on it and think about it so I was anticipating sometime Friday morning lunchtime we’d see that release but uh in the end it would be Friday night and this is certainly not news that you want to bury this is really good news the only odd thing about it is

The timing LSU hires Blake Baker away from Missouri uh they’re going to make him the highest paid assistant coach in the country he’ll make two and a half million dollar a year I’ll remind you that’s what LSU paid Dave Randa after oranda was courted by Texas A&M back in

2018 to go be the Aggie’s defensive coordinator LSU got him stay they paid him 25 um Blaker uh BL Blaker Blake Baker had gotten a raise at missou that was going to pay him so the contract that he had just agreed to before the cotton bow was going to pay him 21 LSU

Offer 25 so the money honestly was negligible like that’s when you’re talking about I’m not going to sit here and diminish $400,000 but when you’re talking about the scope and scale of which we’re discussing it it’s a relatively negligible amount of money that’s not the thing that got Blake Baker away from

Missouri the money as we were told last week and talked about was was comparable there were three things uh like we talked about on Friday number one was family Blake Baker’s wife is from maville she went to Fountain Blue she played soccer at LSU she was an all SEC

Soccer player there’s something to be said for coming home and y’all know if you’re married about Mama being happy so that was a big part of it number two you can win a National Championship at LSU you can’t win a National Championship at Missouri Missouri in its history has

Literally never won a national championship I tweeted that on Friday there were a lot of Missouri fans who didn’t like that saying Missouri was objectively better than LSU to which I reminded them LSU objectively beat Missouri in Ko this year in a season where Missouri won the Cotton bow LSU

And and they threw a ticker tape parade LSU won 10 games and fired most of its defensive stats after winning 10 games there are just different standards between the two programs and it’s obvious to anyone who’s honestly willing to be honest with themselves and then the third is the opportunity to be a

Head coach Blake Baker comes to LSU takes over this defense which was historically bad if the defense improves dramatically or even by 50% then Blake Baker gets the credit and he’s on everybody short list to be a head coach so he’s 41 years old and it’s had a pretty meteoric rise not that

Similar from Dave Aranda rise as a guy in his 30s as a defensive coordinator um Baker went to Louisiana Tech with Manny Diaz um when Manny Diaz left uh Baker was promoted to defensive coordinator at at Tech then Diaz hired Baker as his defensive coordinator at the University

Of Miami where he was he had defensive play calling duties taken from him and Diaz handled that and after that was the year Baker came to Baton Rouge he spent one season in Baton Rouge under Dante Jones in 2021 and then uh obviously Brian Kelly didn’t retain Blake Baker

And then uh he was at Missouri for the last two years where Missouri’s defense went from 133rd in the country to 25th this past year so there are a lot of reasons why you should be excited about about Blake Baker uh he’s got a he’s a

Young guy who’s got a really good track record and I could sit an ex and0 because I think a lot of people have asked me um you know a lot of people have asked about Blake Baker and the style he’s going to run and all that stuff what I would say more than

Anything listen LSU is going to fix the defensive Talent there were two really big issues LSU had this year players and coaching we ran through it you didn’t have a lot of NFL Talent on your defense this year flatly but you should have been better than you were that’s no excuse for being

Historically bad and that falls on coaching LSU is already working to fix the defensive Talent right you did it in the signing class you’re going to the transfer portal you’ve got Jer Brown at corner you’ve got a couple of safeties that are coming in uh Sean Washington’s

Coming in from Joo is’s going to help you at defensive tackle like you’re going to fix the talent issue on the defensive side that’s what you Frank Wilson’s there and you’ve got a great staff that’s recruiting really well and is going to continue to do that to make sure you get the

Players but more importantly I would say is is the culture and it doesn’t necessarily mean that players have to like the coach but you got to respect the coach and it was clear at the end these players didn’t like or respect Matt house and that’s the reason primarily

Why things happened so quickly after that bowl game when we saw the video of Makai Wingo I mean Ju Just just look y’all at at the difference between what happened with Matt house being fired and Blake Baker leaving for example Matt house gets fired Harold Perkins the rabbits got the gun you saw

That tweet Braden Swinson literally kicking rocks we talked about the video with maai Wingo refusing to shake Matt House’s hand that was very representative of how these players felt about their defensive coordinator on the flip side look at the look at the response from Missouri when Blake Baker announced he was leaving Eli

Drinkwitz tweeted a picture of he and Blake Baker smoking cigars after their cotton bow win Thank You Blake for all you did for missou football your help in all we’ve accomplished cannot be denied I enjoyed every minute of our journey together but it’s time for you to go on

A New Path godp speed I wish you well all class there by Eli drinkwitz but then look at what Blake Baker replied my brother for life going to miss you more than anything and so proud of what we were able to accomplish thank you for making me a better Coach father and man

Missou football and coma are special and we will miss it dearly Mi Iz again that’s between the coaches but then what about the players Andis rraw one of the best players on that Missouri defense by the way there was a a fan that was going after Blake Baker and rraw replies to

That fan nah none of that respect uh he came in and changed a real bad run defense without Baker a lot of people would have L last year one of the goats if you asked me we bought in and went 11 and two name the last time we

Did that or won a bowl game number 25 defense thank you at coach Blake Baker Baker replied couldn’t have been great without guys like you do you understand like the illustration of the difference you have players from missou after their coach leaves for another job going on

Social media taking up for him against fans and Laing him whereas the complete opposite was true at LSU when Matt house was shown the door again I’m not saying coaches have to be players best friends but there has to be at least a Synergy and an understanding to where those two

Can accomplish something together I want to play this for you this is back from the 2021 season the year when Deone Clark really developed into a not just a good a great line back right LSU a season went he probably should have been the buiss award winner

But he just played on a very bad football team and so a lot of his effort went unknown this was Deone Clark that year talking about his position coach Blake Baker he’s more than just a coach to me you know he’s like a a father figure he’s like a big brother I mean

Like whenever I need coach Baker know if I need anything you know I know coach Baker is always there and it’s just his way of interacting with us you know um you know he he know the type of guy that I am you know and he know he know he

Likes to have fun with it too you know and when you have fun when doing things you love to do you know there’s no problem with it but if you like so like uptight all the time then it’ll be know it’s it’s like it’ll be a tough a tough job Deone

Clark like a father figure uh there’s a there’s a tweet from an account I don’t know this account and I don’t know they didn’t credit this tweet to anybody but it’s tiger stripes from Dante Jones who was the defensive coordinator That season in 2021 talking about Blake Baker

Quote he Blake Baker is a higher and an even greater person again I don’t know where that quote is attributed it’s doron Jones but it doesn’t say when or where and that’s not attributed to any media outlet but the point is this is a very clear illustration of

The difference of opinions uh between these these two men what you had and what you now have with Blake Baker again I don’t know X and O wi what Blake Baker is going to do day one to make LSU better he did it at Missour missou he’s

Going to be fine I’m sure and LSU is going to get better players but more importantly I think you’re going to get better buy in from these players for Blake Baker than you had and I’ll say it again you know you do not need to be elite defensively but you need to be

Good enough in 2020 when Bo Pina bo bo Pini was here in that defense was horrendous you had NFL players in that defense y’all Stingley Ricks Ward jacobe Stevens Cordell flat Dwight mcln Deone Clark Ali gay Neil Ferell jaquen Roy BJ o jalari apua you had

NFL players on that defense in 2020 and you allowed 35 points a game because nobody respected the coach and the coach didn’t know his talent and didn’t put that those athletes in the position to make good plays you fix the talent and you get them playing hard for their coach you

Will dramatically improve defensively and I think LSU is going to be able to do that under BL hey thanks so much for watching please leave your comments I love to interact and be sure to hit the red subscribe button below after f with f You f than you