re: Are we being disrespected? (Optimist)

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Are we being disrespected?

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Unless people are gushing with praise, the perception is always that we are being disrespected.
I have no idea why LSU fans have such an inferiority complex.

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Disrespected...no. There are just so many unknowns abouts this team that all the national sports media is playing it safe

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This, and the fact that LSU burned through two decades of getting the benefit of the doubt in just two years.

That said, I don't think LSU is being "disrespected". The program is 11-12 over the last two seasons. So it is reasonable to presume LSU won't be able to finish high in the toughest division in all of college football.

However, I DO think LSU is underrated because media/fans outside of Louisiana don't fully understand just how bad of a coach Orgeron was. They think he was a big reason for the success of 2019 and he just had some tough luck with personnel losses and coordinator hires that didn't work out over the last two seasons. The reality is LSU STILL had plenty of talent over the last two seasons (second only to Georgia in number of draft picks). It just that post 2019 Orgeron implemented himself in the on-field approach, rather than stay of the way like he did in 17-19, proving, yet again, just how bad a HC he is. The greater Orgeron's involvement...the worse the program's performance. He's proven that at, now, two stops.

That anchor on the program is gone now. And while LSU doesn't quite have National Championship contender talent yet, it is still greater than 90% of all of college football and top 1/3rd in the SEC. Now, for the first time in two seasons, a proven HC is in control of that talent. THAT is why LSU is underrated. They no longer have the single biggest reason for the poor performances of the last two seasons involved in the program.

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More than anything I’m ready for order to be re-established I guess. Pitt game got me excited.

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wont have to wait long. LSU has to get by FSU (they will) and @Auburn and Tennessee has to beat Pitt (they will) next week then Florida, but if those things happen we’re going to have a top 15 undefeated matchup on Saturday night in Death Valley in a little over a month. Don’t have to worry about 2:30 game because A&M-Bama week

Pundits do not concern me, Mr. Devil.

Cheers

Who cares what we’re ranked at the beginning. It only matters near the end. Oregon is ranked eleventh and they will lose their first game this weekend. No biggie. Relax, enjoy the game and if all goes well we win 27 to 17

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We have won 3 NC's the last 18ish years. Were we expected to win one in ANY of those seasons?

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By some people, yes. Here were our preseason AP rankings in the 4 years we played for the NC:

2003–14*(after finishing 2002 unranked; moved up to #7 by September 21st)

2007–2

2011–4

2019–6

So plenty of people in the media expected us to be very good those years.

*I now know Chris Landry has ties to LSU, but I didn’t at the time when I heard him on either a national show or a local Austin show. It was probably the week before the season started, and I’ll never forget where I was—Mr. Gatti’s parking lot on 620 in Round Rock. They asked Chris for a dark horse NC pick, and he talked up Saban, mentioned Mauck coming back from an injury that really derailed our ‘02 season, and said “Don’t be surprised if LSU goes undefeated with their schedule and winds up playing for or even winning the NC” (I don’t think he was saying it was an easy schedule, more just that we got Georgia and Florida at home and Florida was probably gonna be a bit and start a true freshman at QB—they were and they did, but “oops” )

I remember it so vividly because it was the 1st time I remember a potential LSU NC even being put out in the ether by anybody really, especially in the national media. Even after our amazing finish in ‘01 and our good start in ‘02 (after VA Tech). My perception of the potential of the program changed that day, and the entire country’s had by the end of that year. And we’ve had plenty of respect in the national media since. This “woe is me, nobody ever respects us” chronic victimhood bullshite is bullshite. Stop it.

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Burrow was the REASON so many thought we would fail in '19.

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What?

I was told in 2018 that LSU was going 6-6. So I don't care what people say.