re: LSU Will Be Much Better Next Year. 11-1 at worst.

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BUT...Bama won a NC with a redshirt soph...all is not lost. Play tough defense and run the ball and limit your mistakes....it is possible.

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I've told people several times that McCarron wasn't a RS freshman or true freshman when he started and won. The dude was RS his freshman year, played about as much or a little more than Jennings his RS Fr year, and then he started after two years in the system. McCarron took time to mature enough and still played a game manager position as a RS Sophomore. The team around him (defense, OL, Run game), gave him a cushion his first year and finally he took control in his fourth year.

McElroy took a longer route to stardom, but ended up the same. RS his freshman year and threw a total of 20 times his next two years. Finally in his 4th year in the system, he played as a game manager behind, you guessed it, a stout OL, run game, and defense.

Like I said before 2500 yards, 14-20 TDs and limited turnovers is the only thing we need from our passer. If Mett was a little bit more the game manager, we only have two losses this year. A good defense, we're undefeated. So I still say 10-2 is the floor this year, as 9-3 has been since 2009, and every idiot predicting 7-5, 8-4 every year is talking out of their arse.