re: A top 15 finish is not guaranteed with a win.

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we've finished at least in the top 40 each of the past 3 years. T

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If we win our bowl game, which isn't a sure things anymore, we have a very good chance at finishing top 15 with what would have been a 10 win season had the McNeese game not been canceled. that would mean lsu has finished in the top 15 5 of the last 6 years. I'm pretty sure that's an accomplishment only Oregon,Bama, and LSU have accomplished.

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Looking at the positives is one thing and I'm perfectly okay with that but at some point it stops being about that and becomes more about ridiculing other posters and creating more negativity. There was nothing positive about choctaw's post. It was bitching for bitching's sake.

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I don't think you understand the concept of hypocrisy.

Good points, Tommy. Thanks

If you think I was just complaining with this thread that's fine. That's not what I was trying to do, though. I read a lot of posts saying there was a "good chance" we finish in the top 15 with a win, and I didn't think that was necessarily true. I admit this thread was ill-advised and I should have just let it go, but I at least had a point-or so I thought.

I brought up Choctaw because rickydaddy didn't understand why he got hated on for defending Miles. I was simply saying that that's not what he was doing at all, but instead attacking my post, with no mention of LSU. It was just a drive-by "this thread sucks" with no substance.

Does it really matter?

The sad truth is that Alabama (1) pays its coaches more than any program in the country, (2) recruits better than any other program in the country, (3) puts more players into the NFL than any other program in the country, (4) has won the division 5 of the last 8 years, with the only exceptions being the Cam-Back, the Kick Six, and the best team that LSU has fielded in my lifetime, and (5) has been in contention for a NC in the postseason 5 of the last 7 years.

I'm sure this post will be littered with downvotes and I'll get labelled a positiger "settling for mediocrity," but the truth of it is that I am not at all positive at the direction of the program in the current landscape of CFB, but can accept the REALITY for what it is. This is Nick Saban's world and the rest of us are just living in it. I used to believe that Saban and Miles were two titans going at it and Miles had just gotten some bad luck, but after 5 in a row, I no longer believe that to be the case.

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I want YOU to tell me why LSU is not where Bama is every year

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Honestly Peej, LSU is not where Bama is every year because LSU is not Bama and that's all there is to it. When they have the right coach, they are willing to invest into their football program in ways that LSU is not.

15, 17, 20 .... none of it matters. When we start to care about whether we end up 15th instead of 20th is the day we've jumped the shark. And we're apparently there.

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Since you post about it every day, at what point is finishing in the top 15 not enough anymore?

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Ehh the polls can be shite. There aren't 15 teams better than LSU.

So look at bowl games. You need 6 wins rt? Not so good. Find me another team other than say va tech that has as many consecutive bowl appearances. That means evey single team out there has had more than six losses more recent than LSU. So how the frick is LSU mediocre or in some sort of decline?


Basically you'd rather LSU just suck because finishing ahead of 90% of college football is stale? What's wrong with you?

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I also have zero faith in Alleva to find a better replacement

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I have asked this question forever on here, But I have yet to get an answer on who could come in and do better not named Saban ,Meyer, or Harbaugh... Miles is here and that's fine with me... But I still don't get WHY he can'the be as good as Bama year in and year out... Hell with the top 15... I want top 10's.............