re: Do great wins overcome terrible losses?

Great wins are always better than losses in great situations. The alternatives you present are apples and oranges.

Bama lost to Louisiana Tech one year and went on to win the SEC Championship and finish 5th in the nation before the bowls.

Who the frick thought LSU was making the playoff preseason anyway?

No. it's a sign of terrible coaching. How do you have a team capable of beating Auburn but lose to Troy. It's one thing to say how'd you beat Florida and lose to State. At least State has SEC talent and you can argue "any given Saturday". But there's no way LSU should ever lose to Troy. It's like your wife fricking another guy then buying you a new set of golf clubs as an apology. Would those new Callaways really make you feel better?

O. Unless you have proven that you can win at a sustained rate.
For example Coach Arnsbager lost to MOo State and Tulane and Miami of Ohio - ugh. But he won the SEC.

According to you we were going to win the whole fricking thing

In O's case, our terrible losses set the bar so low that our great win has people excited to MAYBE achieve the heights that we fired our old coach for reaching every year.

So shite, who knows.

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hell yea jackass. we ain't winning a title so let's kick some arse against the teams we can.

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I just posed a question, no reason to hurl an insult lol

Thanks to everyone who has thoughtfully responded. I was just thinking about it today and was curious others rationale behind it. I agree that for a young team and a new coach, as long as we learn from the loss and rarely (or never) see their like again, then the wins do overcome it. I see both sides though. Its an interesting question where for most people, the outcome is directly correlated to the situation.

I guess 2007 is the best example of that scenario. We suffered two terrible losses, yet we won a national championship. Had we not gotten to play for the title, I can’t imagine what the backlash would have been. For most people, the wins overcame the losses because we played for the title. For some folks, they still don’t give Les credit for that championship. Or if they do, still use it as an argument against him that he was the luckiest sob ever.

Thanks again for all of the clever and well thought out perspectives. Nice to have some thought and dialogue every once in a while in this place ??

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Bama lost to Louisiana Tech one year and went on to win the SEC Championship and finish 5th in the nation before the bowls.

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I’m not sure this is true. Tech actually beat Bama twice in the late 90s/early aughts, but I don’t think Bama won the SEC either year.


Eta—I was wrong. Happened in ‘99. I honestly don’t remember that. I just assumed Florida won it again that year(Bama beat them 34-7 in the SECCG). In fairness, I was drunk pretty much all of 1999.