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My understanding of his rankings is that they give weight to the last 3-5 years, obviously last season is weighed most heavily but he is giving program standings not team standings.

With the way 2020 and 2021 went, I think 7 is perfect.

Inputting anything from 2020 and 2021 into the evaluation of the 2023 steam is foolish. LSU HAD talent in 2020 and 2021. It's just that for the first time in his tenure Orgeron had full control over the actual in game approach (rather than just staying out of the way and letting his coordinators determine the best style of play). The results were predictable. O has ALWAYS been a bad HC (look no further than the fact the 2019 COY is available to hire and NO ONE wants him), he was just fortunate enough to be on the ride of a lifetime in 2019.

That talent from 2020 and 2021, even if depleted, was enough for a coach with a proven track record of success to come in, add a few key transfers, and win immediately. If you are just looking at the records from 2020 and 2021 then you are doing lazy analysis. Their was a pretty well defined anchor on that team dragging it down. LSU paid $16M to cut it loose.

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Posted by Bert Macklin FBI

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Posted on 8/21/23 at 1:34 pm to Alt26

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Inputting anything from 2020 and 2021 into the evaluation of the 2023 steam is foolish.

Again, I don’t think it’s a team ranking, it’s a program ranking.

It’s not how good will the 2023 lsu tigers be compared to their peers.

How does lsu as a program compare to their peers. How have they competed against their peers the last few years? How has recruiting been? How does their future trajectory look?

At least I think this is what he said in one of his videos over the summer.

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Posted by RightWingTiger

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Posted on 8/22/23 at 6:18 am to Alt26