re: Glenn Guilbeau just now on ESPNU -LSU has the lowest talent level since Nick took over LSU

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You’re being emotional, he’s being objective. My link below is a thread showing returning production. LSU ranks 122 in the country. If you’re being objective and ineltellectually honest, you would see that he’s probably right and that this could set up as a rough season due to inexperience. 2019 should be much different.

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There's a couple ways to look at this. But overall, yep- this is where coaches earn their pay, or fail miserably.

One way of looking at it...
- we lose THE key producers all over the offense: top-2 WRs, a QB, top-2 RB, both our starting tackles (at begining of 2017), and our highest graded OL at C.

On defense a starting CB, the rotational CB, alot of the DL.

The other way of looking at it...
It's not like we're replacing many of those with freshmen. In fact, last year they were freshmen in many cases and while they didn't perform well in most cases they've got some experience now and some time to develop physicall [here comes the "excuses" and "goal-posts" chants by Rantifa].

In a couple of places we may improve with the replacement. Example: while he hasn't played a game, Shelvin has 1.25 years of practice behind him and should be an upgrade. Giles and Lewis should be productive transfers, possibly upgrades. Chaisson is also a good example.


So while there's been turnover of starters, there has been "prep" for that. To me, it is still a worry, but mainly in spots (QB, RB, RT, CB).