re: 9-4 is not a good season.

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When Miles was here I feared everyone. We were so close to losing so many games it wasn't funny.

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You must really hate watching Now. I mean O actually did lose to Troy and got blown out by Moo State. Now people are saying 9-4 is a good season and are worried about teams like MSU and LA Tech while conceding automatic losses to Alabama and UGA.

Welcome to the real decline.

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yep he proved he could win more SEC games than the previous staff generally did in recent years

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yeah hopefully we can play 5 sec teams with 6 losses or more every year.
he didnt beat a single sec team with less than 4 losses.

Your stalking of Rick is creepy dude.

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When Miles was here I feared everyone. We were so close to losing so many games it wasn't funny. 

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this is a you issue
during his tenure no program beat more ranked teams than lsu did.

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The offense was almost always garbage, and we had to win with defense or special teams. 

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lsu's all time top 5 offenses in ppg and ypg are almost exclusively Miles teams

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The sorry part about that was, we had NFL talent.

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yeah, who do you think was responsible for that talent? let me guess...
anyone but miles

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Coaching was causing us to play weak teams close, and lose to Kentucky and Arkansas in 07.

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they greatest coach of alltime(saban) with by far more talent than lsu LOSES TO AN INFERIOR TEAM EVERY SINGLE YEAR. how is it this vast underachievement for lesser coaches to lose 2 or 3 when the greatest coach in cfb history loses to inferior teams every year?

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Lose at Auburn with JR handing off until we didn't have enough time on the clock to win the game passing. That is not even mentioning the piss poor management of the game.

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im amazed by how many lsu fans will shite on the most accomplished tenure in lsu history just because they would rather pass the ball than run the ball.

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they greatest coach of alltime(saban) with by far more talent than lsu LOSES TO AN INFERIOR TEAM EVERY SINGLE YEAR. how is it this vast underachievement for lesser coaches to lose 2 or 3 when the greatest coach in cfb history loses to inferior teams every year? 

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I guarantee someone is going to use this argument against you as an excuse for losing to Troy. I will simply say the 6th most talented team vs the 116th most talented team.

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Something along the lines of "Hey let's get better and improve off this bowl victory so that we can make a run at the playoffs next season" would have been more palatable.

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If you just "think" you are going to win a title (say a UFC title for ex. but applies to any sport) you most likely won't. But if you really believe and "know" you are going to win a title, it is much more likely to happen. It's just basic coaching 101. YOU have to know it. You have to visualize it. You don't go around telling yourself or others that "maybe its possible". The first step is to know that you will get it.

I saw a press conference before the Rockhold/Bisping fight and Rockhold corrected a reporters question and said, I don't think I am going to win, I "know" I am going to win this fight (he lost BTW). Then he went on to explain why it is an important distinction to make for a proper mental attitude and that fighters who just "think they can win it" are most likely never going to get there.

Same thing with McGregor. He talked about the same exact thing of why you have to "know" you are going to win. You don't say "maybe I might be able to win". That is loser talk.

I would hope coach O is instilling that type of thinking in his players again this year. You don't go into it wishing or hoping, as a player you have to believe it and know it and prepare accordingly. Like a champion.

That's why I don't get all this hate towards coach O for trying to instill that type of belief system in his players. Whether you agree with theory or not, it's not like it is some outlandish, off the wall, type of coach talk to tell his players.

If you want to hate on O. Go ahead, but find something better that makes more sense to question him about. There is plenty of legitimate ammo to fire at him but you are firing blanks on this one.

all this "but he lied to us fans, he said he was going to go to the playoffs last year and he didn't. He is a liar." is really some pathetic bull crap to get on a coach about.

edit: especially being he said it in the locker room after the last game of the season, the Louisville bowl game, to his players. Just that there were reporters there in the locker room who put it in headlines and dumbass ranters just read the headline without getting the context of the situation and repeat it over and over in threads, trying either purposely or ignorantly, to make it into something it is not.

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If you just "think" you are going to win a title (say a UFC title for ex. but applies to any sport) you most likely won't. But if you really believe and "know" you are going to win a title, it is much more likely to happen. It's just basic coaching 101. YOU have to know it. You have to visualize it. You don't go around telling yourself or others that "maybe its possible". The first step is to know that you will get it. 

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I think it's little less traditional than the "tear em down and build em up" method. My question for you Willie is how do you think the players will respond when O tells them their gonna make it to the CFP this year or next year?

Full disclosure, I don't think there's really a right way to do it.

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My question for you Willie is how do you think the players will respond when O tells them their gonna make it to the CFP this year or next year?

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I don't know. What did McGregor do after he lost to Diaz? I know he didn't stop thinking positivity. What is the recommendation in the "positive thinking" books (which there are books on the subject). Abandon the technique or thought process? I don't know. I wonder what Rockhold did when he got knocked out in the first round by Bisping after all that positive thinking mumbo jumbo.

I'm sure there are a lot more athletes and sports teams that use that that don't become the champ or title holder than do, just because there can only be one champ.

I mean it's no secret that Orgeron believes in positively thinking. Lot of things he says and does seem to indicate that besides the whole "we're going to go to the playoffs" thing.

I really myself don't believe in the power of positive thinking type stuff, although I do like being in a positive environment with positive energy people around me. To me you are just setting yourself up to get smacked in the face because life is going to kick your teeth in at some point. But I, and probably most people (other than ranters), would rather be in a positive environment than a negative one.

But if you don't like positive thinking, call orgeron out for that, Don't make up this whole thing that he is a "liar" . It just makes people that do look either like they are stupid or maybe they ae just ignorant of the context.

Honestly, I'm not sure MMA fighters is an apples to apples comparison because they compete as individuals. I guess I could have phrased my question better. Do you think the message of making it to the playoffs will get tiring if it's continued to be used and they don't make it? That's my concern when mainly using a motivational approach vs the tactical approach. I worry that it can get stale real fast.