re: I have heard almost universally positive comments about our team except ...

"Because everyone is tired of watching our rivals dominate college football and we are in the background playing in the chicken not wanting to be there. What is so hard to figure out."

Let's see just two years ago we go undefeated in the SEC and win the Conference and play (altho poorly) in the MNC game and our Coach was voted the Coach of the Year by at least 4 different groups. I hardly call that domination by our rivals. In 2011, we beat Bama on their field with a problem O and a great D. Now, we have the reverse...as do many SEC teams this year. I think your comment is inaccurate and indicative of those LSU fans who grumble at anything less than perfection. You must be a young guy who wasn't around when LSU was not an elite team...those were painful years, indeed!