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I’ll grant you that statement on Ole Miss; but if you think that about Arkansas, then you just either aren’t paying attention or don’t know what you’re talking about. While they may not be elite, Arkansas is a well coached team and came into that game as one of the best offensive teams in the country, not just the SEC. There were a lot of commentators saying Arkansas should have been ranked in the top 25. Hell, even Stanford Steve said that right before the start of the game the other night. But even more so, it is aggravating when fans simply base their opinion on a team solely off who they’ve beaten without taking into account the performance of the team and how they went about beating those teams. If you can’t see that LSU’s last two performances were some of their best of the year, then you need to pay better attention.

You’re making a lot of assumptions there. There’s no need to be so defensive. Arkansas looked very average to me last night. Missed a ton of open threes. I won’t pretend to have watched their games prior so maybe they just had an off night.

My opinion of LSU doesn’t hinge only on who they have beaten. I watch how they play each night compared to other top 25 teams in the country. We tend to be less disciplined and worse defensively than most of those other teams but we have a lot of talent that masks those deficiencies. I’m really hoping to see continued improvement defensively like we showed against Ole Miss and in the first half against Arky.

My original point was that losing a good defender and upperclassman is typically a big loss if you want to make noise in March. That should be the standard now for Wade, would you agree? That was before I heard about Wade’s comments insinuating Manning was a locker room cancer so I don’t think it’s as much of a loss now.