Let's stop the meltdown

Hope this isn't too long (if so tell me and I'll shorten it. Only my third thread)

edit: shortened

The vast majority of what I've read today has been brutally negative towards our coaches and players. Let's try to go from pessimistic to optimistic. Doesn't mean you have to be a "sunshine pumper" but look for the positives, not the negatives.

Even though:

-- without (arguably) the nation's best player without whom we would have lost 2-3 last year

-- We lost our big (size wise) go-to WR to the draft and our only receiving TE to graduation

-- Our first true pocket QB in a one-QB system since Mauck is starting in his first year in a system built for a mobile QB

-- We're riddled with injuries to starting players and have several key players who are ineligible

-- And on top of all of that we have a new OC adjusting from last year just being our OL coach to now coaching the whole offense.. that's a huge jump and while he hasn't done as well as the fans would have liked, he hasn't done all that bad either, all things considered. JMO but whenever Mett gets more comfortable and they learn to use headsets, Kragthorpe needs to go back into the booth and let Stud be on the field.

With all of this going on LSU is still an elite program. We nearly (and could/should have) beat a (now) top 5 team that could win the SEC and possibly go to the BCSNCG. Throw in the fact that we only dropped to 8 and 9 in the polls, and now we see that a NC isn't out of our grasp. We definitely have the potential win out. And I know, easier said than done, but if our offense really gets rolling like I believe it can, we can do it.

With just the injuries that LSU has had, most teams would be lucky to have a winning record, much less be ranked, so we aren't that bad off.




Let's motivate the players on here and stop degrading them (we all know they read TD).