re: What would the national perception be if we beat Clemson?

We return 5 starters on defense and 9 on offense. 14 starters coming back. 33 of 44 from the 2-deep last year.

I am not buying that we are inexperienced and will only win 8-9 games. We were nothing but sophomores in 2011, which was one of the best teams in LSU history.

This team will be very good. Count on it. The national media refuses to look below the surface. All that they see is that LSU lost a bunch of juniors to the draft. They miss that we had hardly any seniors of note and that not all of the juniors were even starters. That is how loaded LSU was. Sure, they won't be as good as they would have been if all of those guys had come back, but they will still be very good.

Enough of the negative talk. Let's bust some heads.