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Only one team can be the best, and it's not us...
Posted on 11/8/15 at 2:06 pm
Posted on 11/8/15 at 2:06 pm
Last night was a systematic breakdown. It wasn't just coaches, or just players, it was everybody involved. We can piss and moan til season's end about specifics, but it doesn't matter.
Only one team can be at the top of the mountain, and once again it will not be LSU. We ask ourselves the same questions Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Ole Miss, etc are asking.
This era for LSU football will unfortunately be defined in many regards by losing to Alabama. It sucks, but it's reality. In any other division or conference, this discussion doesn't happen every year. We simply live in a time and place where the dominant team (coaches and players alike) is next door. It doesn't matter whether you define this as acceptable, or mediocrity, or whatever...it's just reality.
I've often compared Miles to Mack Brown, and this 5-year stretch is similar to the 5-year stretch where Oklahoma dominated Texas (2000-2004). Often times, the teams were evenly matched on paper, and the game was going to decide the South Champion of the Big 12, and dictate the national title race. Stoops owned Brown for that stretch. It took a superhuman player (Vince Young) and some unfortunate circumstances to Oklahoma (Adrian Peterson injury among other things) for Texas and Brown to get back over the hump.
One can only wish that is on the horizon for us as well...
Only one team can be at the top of the mountain, and once again it will not be LSU. We ask ourselves the same questions Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Ole Miss, etc are asking.
This era for LSU football will unfortunately be defined in many regards by losing to Alabama. It sucks, but it's reality. In any other division or conference, this discussion doesn't happen every year. We simply live in a time and place where the dominant team (coaches and players alike) is next door. It doesn't matter whether you define this as acceptable, or mediocrity, or whatever...it's just reality.
I've often compared Miles to Mack Brown, and this 5-year stretch is similar to the 5-year stretch where Oklahoma dominated Texas (2000-2004). Often times, the teams were evenly matched on paper, and the game was going to decide the South Champion of the Big 12, and dictate the national title race. Stoops owned Brown for that stretch. It took a superhuman player (Vince Young) and some unfortunate circumstances to Oklahoma (Adrian Peterson injury among other things) for Texas and Brown to get back over the hump.
One can only wish that is on the horizon for us as well...
Posted on 11/8/15 at 2:08 pm to TexasTiger08
Bama has been a dumpster fire in the fairly recent past, and will be again. Nobody stays on top forever.
Posted on 11/8/15 at 2:11 pm to TexasTiger08
Beaten by Bama in the trenches. Again. As Rabalais wrote today, LSU is overmatched on both sides of the lines v. Bama. It's been that way for years now.
Posted on 11/8/15 at 2:12 pm to TexasTiger08
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We can piss and moan til season's end about specifics, but it doesn't matter.
But it really does.
Posted on 11/8/15 at 2:15 pm to TexasTiger08
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We can piss and moan til season's end about specifics, but it doesn't matter.
That's one way of looking at it, I guess, Confucius.
Posted on 11/8/15 at 2:16 pm to TexasTiger08
It's the Saban era right now it's dominant in smash mouth football. LSU either retools to beat Bama (and lose to others along the way) or they maintain the relative success of the Miles era with a similar style.
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