8-4 regular season is the floor... here's why

I always thought 10 wins was the floor. Since when did a 8 or 9 wins season become OK with LSU fans. This programs attitude has really deteriorated. It's a tough schedule but 11 wins is within reach if everything breaks right for us.

Wow! Look another post that will lead to bashing of coaches . Congrads on being that guy!

I expect 10-2 and will be disappointed with anything less.

9-3 could happen, but anything worse than 9-3 will be a failure IMO and will absolutely deserve criticism for a program whose expectations should be to be nationally competitive.

Schedule is no tougher than most of the last 20 years. 3 of the 4 toughest games on the schedule are at home, and the one tough OOC game will basically be an LSU home game against an overrated ACC team with 10 fans. Yeah, Georgia is good, but they've basically "replaced" our annual Top10 matchup with Florida this year with Florida being down.

I’m not saying it’ll happen, but I feel like our floor is 6-6. We start 1-2 then the wheels start to come off as pressure builds and we get into that tough SEC slate.

Now realistically, I expect we’ll be 8-4/9-3. I will forever pull for the Tigers though so I’d love to watch them surprise me.

8-4 ain’t good enough

If you think the basis for the season is comparing it to 2014, then you forgot to add that in 2014 we had the most touted freshman running back in my lifetime, probably ever at LSU, being added to a lineup in Leonard Fournette and the #20 athlete, Darrell Williams, at running back to a backfield that already included Terrence Magee and Kenny Hilliard.

Not sure if that should make us feel better or worse but it gives me pause.

Idiot. Look in the backfield dumbass. Who takes the pressure off of the QB? There isn’t a Collins on that line.
Leave with your bullshite.

It depends on what you mean by "floor".

If floor = the worst record conceivable by LSU, then that number is 3-9. That happens if LSU loses to Miami, loses to Auburn and the team loses faith in the coaches and quits. (BTW - Oregeron still keeps his job in that scenario. I don't know what happens to Alleva).

If floor = the worst record we should expect from LSU and it keep its HC and AD, then yes, 8-4 is the floor.

People are just rationalizing when they think there is no way LSU could lose more than 4 games this year based on information from prior teams and prior coaching staffs.

We know from Archer, Hallman, and DiNardo (and Johnny Jones for that matter) that it can get ugly really fast and it can be really difficult to rebuild a winning program once it gets destroyed.

not so sure I'd say defense is for sure better than 2014... 2014 D was top 3 in the country