re: The offensive Guilbeau piece that's featured on the TD front page

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Saban led LSU to its first NC since 1958. Chizik led Auburn to its first since 1957. Saban had 4 losses the following year (2004).

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Three losses, with two of them being very suspect due to the refs at Auburn and the no-show vs. Iowa. Saban had quit and didn't bother even to try to prepare the team for the bowl game. That's a bad reflection on Saban personally, but not on the state of our program at the time he left.

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I don't think Chizik is a Saban, but things didn't look that different for Auburn, who has been bringing in great recruiting classes under Chizik and are in a rebuilding year like LSU was in 2004.

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I think LSU was more solid in 2003 than Auburn in 2010, despite their going 14-0 and our going 13-1. We won that NC on the strength of a strong, talented team across the board, and our program was well stocked and primed to contend for and win championships going forward, which we did from 2005 through 2007, and are again.

Meanwhile, they won theirs essentially on the back of one player on offense and one on defense, and they are back to mediocre a year later without those two players. They'll probably go 7-5, and that they even will do that well is due to the implosion of Tennessee and Florida this year, the inexplicable overconfidence of Mississippi State in their game against Auburn, and the mess that is South Carolina's offense this year.

That said, it's been 7 years since Saban left, so giving him credit for anything that's happening now is silly.