depends on how talented experienced players are. for instance, what if the defense had 11 dj welters? how would you like the chances compared to a defense with 7-8 freshman and sophomore studs?

experience is nice, but talent is much more important. you can't teach someone to be great at football if they don't have the innate ability to be great. you can teach an elite talent how to utilize that talent much easier.

one would think that after the amount of young impact players we've had recently that this wouldn't be much of a question. not to mention a freshman won the heisman trophy 2 years ago

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Posted by UGATiger26

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Member since Dec 2009

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Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:56 am to lsufball19

quote:
depends on how talented experienced players are

Well it also depends on how talented the non-experienced players are too.

If you're talking about experienced 2 and 3-stars vs. 5-stars, than no doubt those players are much more talented.

But if we're talking about a 4-star CB with a season of experience vs. a 5-star with no experience, gimme the 4-star any day, at least until the 5-star develops and is ready.

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Posted by spike0311

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Posted on 8/13/14 at 11:01 am to lsufball19

I understand the debate between talent and experience. Reasonable people might disagree on which is more important. What I do not understand is how the same sportswriter will suggest that LSU will be a work in progress because they are young, but then look at Alabama, a team replacing almost the same number of players, and claim that they are favorites because they are talented. You can't have it both ways. This is just lazy biased sports writing.

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