re: Is 34 wins the first three years possible with Coach O?

You’re right the roster vs UAB in 2000 isn’t what it is now but we had to make a historic comeback in 08 to beat the same school with a better roster so it all needs context. We had a ton of injuries for the Troy game and if that team were in the situation we had vs Troy in 08 they wouldn’t have been able to comeback and win that game. The point being that Ogeron is taking excess heat for a difference of a couple of plays with a skeleton crew compared to Miles in 08s Troy game. Again you’re 100% correct it’s a terrible loss but it’s one game or even a handful of plays that’s all it is. It wasn’t the death of the program it wasn’t the worst loss in LSU history like it’s being described by many. It most likely is the reason the season was turned around, it caused the staff and players to look in the mirror and recognize the level of competition needed to be successful at this university and the coaches to finally flush all the remaining practices of the old guard. What the anti-O people are doing is using it to attack and discredit anything the new regime does, it’s their main tool to push their agenda. We could’ve beat Troy by 40 and if we’dve lost the games we were predicted to we’d be 6-4 and they’d still be attacking him and that’s the double standard hypocrisy of their narrative.