re: 2017 Season In Context

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This year, however, our SOS is well outside the top 20 a

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You play the teams in front of you. We also played an extra SEC road game. Our Tigers lost three first round draft choices and suffered incredible attrition on the o line. Then Guice and Key missed parts of the year with injuries. Anyone who saw the first half of the spring game knew we had issues on offense.
I doubt O was a good choice but his biggest mistakes thus far are not vetting Canada well enough and Mickey Joseph. Every coach has made bad hires including Saban.
Miles didn’t leave the cupboard bare but lacking quality depth in the trenches.
Everyone speaks of the Troy game but Saban lost to UAB and ULM. He also came damn close to losing to Troy in 04 just as Miles nearly shite the bed in 2008. Oh yeah Dabo has a losing record at Clemson his second year as HC.
Your stats are meaningless.

Let me make it even easier to understand. LSU is traditionally a top 15 program when we finish in Top 15 the season was on par. When top ten or Top 5 we have good seasons, outside Top 25 very bad, 16-25 are disappointing seasons.

Some can be for injuries, bad luck, coaching changes etc. This year was do to coaching decisions both those made by this staff and it’s predecessors.

A win versus Notre Dame and we meet expectations which would have been good for Bebes first year. But we didn’t win but it was Florida 2016 all over again. We were clearly the better team and had better talent but found a way to lose the game. The offense was terrible at scoring points which is what you have to do to win games.

Hence, this staffs overall grade goes from a B-/C+ to D/C-. It’s barely passable. That’s how bad the bowl loss was. And don’t give me shite about meaningless games. Winning 10 games is huge and we even had a 100k bonus for Bebe, yet they played like shite, looked lost most of the game, and failed to make any significant adjustments. I don’t believe because it’s the playoffs suddenly they play great. Since 2012 LSU has been of the worst post season teams on the planet.

I hope they were all hung over or something because it was a pathetic embarrassment. Our first opponent, Miami beat this team like a bad child. Could have been by 60. All the trick plays they were running told you they didn’t think they could line up and beat us straight up. Yet they prevailed once again just like they did in they dysfunctional end of the Miles era.

We wound clearly be trounced out of any playoffs in round one too. LSU has forgotten or is incapable of winning big games. We are everyone’s lovable loser. We are good for giving playoff caliber teams a quailty win and that’s it. We have fallen as get up.

Even the Bama fans pity us now saying it was more fun, even though they occasionally lost when LSU was good. It is in fact, better for the SEC and college football for Bama to have real rivals.

But alas once again we manage to snatch defeat away from easy victory. And w ruin what could be a good season.

We hear promises of next year like the Sirens song and like Charlie Brown we line up to try to kick that football out of Lucy’s hand, hoping this time it would be different.

Apathy starts rearing it’s ugly head, and it’s the early 90s again.

I have supported Bebe and will continue to do so because he is our coach. However, Alleva needs to be removed yesterday and if there is not significant improvement next year other changes need to be made. It it is fire everyone, burn down the building and salt the ground so be it.

“There is no more try. There is only do or do not do”- Yoda

Your research is up to par, baw.

Solid research here OP and numbers that speak volumes. People will ignore, but fact we only beat one team with a pulse coupled with data like tells me all I need to know about this regime and where it’s heading. Sad days in BR