re: Reality of the decline

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I lost a lot of my passion for LSU football last night. There are three things I just can't abide about this program anymore.

3. It doesn't appear to me that this team has a whole lot of heart. They have athletes, to be sure, but what built LSU up from the smoking wreck that was the Curley years was guys like Gabe Northern, Todd McClure, Rodney Reed, Trev Faulk, Jacob Hester...guys who didn't have top-level NFL talent but played their asses off anyway and used smarts and heart to beat the other guy. I can't point to anybody who strikes me as that kind of player on this team - as evidence, Lamin Barrow is wearing No. 18 and I can't think of one play he's made that would remind anybody of the previous No. 18's.


2. Third and Chavis. I know the guy is a good defensive coordinator and I don't argue with his resume, but I can't stand watching somebody like Ole Miss convert third downs at will on their way to a 14-play drive to win the game. This happens more often than not in a close game and it's painful to watch. Maybe you guys can stomach watching your team bleed out slowly in a prevent defense; I have no use for it.


1. Quite simply, I can no longer abide the annual laydown against Ole Miss. It's a disgrace. That team could be down to walkons and they'll treat the LSU game as the Super Bowl. LSU can't be bothered to even show up, even in games they win. And they win anyway most of the time, but it's a disgraceful, honorless kind of winning. Even if somebody had made a play to save that game last night it still would have been a disgrace of a game. So while I'll watch them play and maybe even go to the games, I'm done living vicariously through LSU. The payoff just isn't there for me anymore. And I don't have any use for Miles and his $4.6 million-a-year mediocrity anymore; spending that kind of money on the failure to win championships strikes me as classic public-sector style waste, which I abhor.

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