Focus now shifts to football season. 2015 looks similar to 2011

Difference is, we have a new DC. People seem to be over looking that. We are going to a new scheme. How players pick that up will be a major issue. We don't play 3 cupcakes in a row. We play one, then off to Miss St. on the road.
We have the talent, no question about it....but the jury is still out of what our def will be like.
Besides that, it does remind me a lot of 2011.

Could happen if AJ is the permanent backup QB.

Don't forget the Perrilloux arrest/suspension in 2007.

No Chavis. That will hold you back.

This season is a complete question mark for me. We could surprise and have a terrific run or we could go 8-5.

With coaching changes and QB situation, it's a guessing game.

I dont't see it yet. We had a much better season the year preceding 2011. In 2010, we went 11-2 and crushed A&M in the Cotton Bowl with a team made up almost entirely of freshman and sophomores. It was quite evident to me that 2011 was going to be very special. 2014 did not give me the same vibe. I'm not going to get too excited about 2015 just yet.

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2015 looks similar to 2011

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based on what??

I like the optimism, but IMO this season looks more similar to 2009 than 2011

2009 - coming off an 8-5 season that included some UGLY losses (UF, UGA, Ole Miss) and a close home loss to Bama

2015 - coming off an 8-5 season that included some UGLY losses (MSU, AU) and a close home loss to Bama

2009 - New DC formerly of another SEC school

2015 - New DC formerly of another SEC school

2009 - Soph as starting QB after making 1 start the previous year (Jefferson)

2015 - (likely with AJ arrest) Soph as starting QB after making 1 start the previous year

2009 - coming off a season where LSU finished unranked

2015 - coming off a season where LSU finished unranked

2009 - 3rd year on staff for the OC (2 previous years featured one really good offense and one not so great offense)

2015 - 3rd year on staff for the OC (2 previous years featured one really good offense and one not so great offense)

2009 - long road trip to a struggling BCS program (Washington)

2015 - long road trip to a struggling BCS program (Syracuse)

Besides all of that, in 2011 a 5th year Sr. with significant playing experience was waiting to step in after the arrest of the projected starting QB. This year were looking at a true Soph with minimal playing experience stepping in for what will likely be a suspended starter. There certainly is some young talent on the 2015 roster, but the young talent in 2010 was part of a very good 10-2 team that had only road losses to the eventual national champs and a good Ark. team that went 10-2 the next season. Many people saw the potential of the 2011 team coming. LSU started the season at #4. The 2015 team has a lot of questions that still need to be answered and like in 2009, LSU will start the season ranked somewhere in the mid-teens.

Who is the Tyrann Mathieu on this team?

Like 2011? Maybe while one QB fights a legal battle, the other will lead us to the most perfect season of my lifetime again. Then one game Les (who I support on everything but this) will ruin it by putting the other guy in during middle of a game we're winning.

When the crowd boos the coach for jinxing the perfection, everyone will come on TD on a high horse and say "F u to everyone who boo'd the player". Which was 0%, but whatever.

Maybe in my next life I'll get over 2011.