re: "If BH could just be average...."

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He's not doing it with a true sophomore with 1 start under his belt. 

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Exactly. Posters on here saying 250 passing yards per game is doable and isn't expecting too much ,are crazy. Jamarcus Russell' s 2006 season was the 2nd best passing season in lsu history and he threw for 240 yards per game. Mett in 2013 threw for 237 yards per game.
Asking a true sophomore to average more passing yards per game than JRUSS and Mett is crazy.

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Les Miles has had 3 qbs start in the NFL. what other team in the sec can claim that in the same time frame?

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Those 3 Qb's accounted for 3 years of high level QB play out of 10 years. That's 30% of the time. Regardless of how it may stack up against other teams that is a minority of the time. The safe bet is to understand that it probably won't happen and be pleasantly surprised if it does.

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saban's recruits

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These words make me more angry than anything else in all of sports. Give me a fricking break, man.

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well, to be fair, CFB in 2015 is nothing like CFB in 2006

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But lsu's offense has remained a run first ball controlled offense. I'm comparing 2015 lsu qb to past lsu seasons.

that's the low end of mediocre

now 2009 did instill a hope in JJ, which was destroyed by his slide from that peak

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points are via field position and sometimes how scoring

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It's still a pure stat because it shows how much scoring per play your offense achieved and isn't skewed by scheme or tempo.

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I think the word you are looking for is experienced. He's not doing it with a true sophomore with 1 start under his belt.

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I guess Jarrett Lee, Jordan Jefferson, and Mett never existed.

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Really just talking about expecting anything more than average here. Even if you count that year as a "high level of qb play" we're still only at 40%.

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Nearly half of Miles tenure consisted of 2 QB LSU was basically stuck with. During that stretch on the recruiting trail, there has been some misses and some bad luck.

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and yet you think 250 passing yards per game is doable with a 1st year starter that's a true sophomore.

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I didn't say 250 passing yards per game . You really don't think it's possible that Brandon Harris could hit 207 yards passing and 38.5 yards rushing per game? Sure I know it hasn't happened before, but we haven't had a game 1 starter QB (not talking Perriloux who only started two games) with Harris' combo of arm strength, and mobility.

You have to let go of the past. Just last year Fournette broke the LSU freshman rushing record with an awful passing game, the OL not being able to block the first 5 or so games, and musical chairs at RB.

Jordan Jefferson, the guy so many people think sucks, put up nearly 2200 passing yards and 17 TDs with awful support around him (minus LaFell and Toliver), as a true sophomore in less than 12 games. You don't think a guy as talented as Harris couldn't do better with a talent overload and experienced squad around him?

Am I taking crazy pills now?

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guess I missed the part where Mett started as a true sophomore.

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You also said experience. Mett did not have any D-1 experience. I don't care about JUCO crap. Mett didn't have any SEC or power 5 experience unless you consider the garbage snaps against Ole Miss experience.

Miles didn't hesitate to throw it 27 times per game. With Jefferson 25 times per game, with Lee nearly 29 times per game. With 320 attempts, that would put him right in the average of Jefferson. If you split the difference in Mett's 10.4 ypa and Jennings 7.1 ypa, you get 8.75 ypa. I think he could hit around 8.4 ypa with our experienced vertical passing threats and close to 60% completion if not more because he has better accuracy than Jennings.

You guys are waaay too safe. You're pretty much saying that he's going to do slightly worse than Jefferson, and if that's the case, then that's disappointing given all the pluses he has over Jefferson during the same point in their careers.