re: Don’t know why everyone is so negative

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A Vanderbilt team that beat Alabama last season and is ranked in the Top 10 for the first time since 1947. The deep meaning LSU fans are assigning to a label is an hysterical overreaction. This Vandy team bears no resemblance to the Vandy teams of the last 75 years.

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Indiana is #2. This is a brand new world. All the old rules no longer apply.

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LSU lost to a tough opponent on the road playing without the heart of their front 7. No one should be happy about that, but all the catastrophizing is over the top.

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Why is Vandy beating Bama last year relevant? They lost to Bama this season.

Explain to me how these other programs have a new advantage over LSU. If the landscape has changed, shouldn't LSU be on the forefront? LSU is paying a 10/100 guaranteed contract and paid reportedly top 5 in NIL.

So it's now we shouldn't to be expected to be better than Vandy, Ole Miss and Indiana?

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Why is Vandy beating Bama last year relevant?

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So you are agreeing that what LSU did against Vandy over the last 35 years isn’t relevant to this year?

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Explain to me how these other programs have a new advantage over LSU. If the landscape has changed, shouldn't LSU be on the forefront?

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Why did Oregon lose by 10 to Indiana AT HOME? Why did Penn St lose 4 straight including UCLA and Northwestern AT HOME? Why did Michigan go 8-5 last year and have the same record as LSU this year? Why are Clemson and Florida 3-4? Why did Miami miss the playoffs last year and lose this year to Louisville AT HOME? Why did Alabama lose 4 games last year for the first time since 2007 including a loss to Vandy? Why did Georgia lose 3 games for the first time since 2018? Why do ND, Texas, and Tennessee have 2 losses already? Why did Oklahoma go 6-7 last year?

Why are Indiana, Georgia Tech, and Vanderbilt in the Top 10? Why are the Top 5 in the ACC standings: Georgia Tech, Virginia, SMU, Pitt, and Duke? Why are BYU and Cincinnati at the top of the Big 12? Why is Indiana first in the Big 10 and Northwestern, Minnesota, and UCLA tied for 3rd?

This is far from an LSU specific phenomenon. Whatever you think you know about who should be thriving in the current environment, it doesn’t match the reality of what is actually happening on the field.

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Alabama owns the series. But at least in the last 35 years or so LSU plays at least as well there as they play in Baton Rouge (even though they've lost most of games in either stadium). If somewhat recent history is any indication, LSU's probably slightly more likely to win at Alabama than they are at home.

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10 years ago the LSU does good in Tuscaloosa stat meant something. Now LSU has lost 5 of the last 6 in Tuscaloosa. 4 of those have been by two TDs or more.

You dont want what hes drinking. Its Takka vodka.

So what's your explanation again? Make it clear to a 5th grade level as myself.

What are the deciding factors? IE - better coaching, more money for staff, more money for players, facilitates, etc.?

It's just a random roll of a die? Is that your point?

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So what's your explanation again?

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My explanation is that I am humble enough to admit I don’t know what’s going on in college football right now. Traditional ways of thinking about what leads to successful programs don’t appear to be holding true in this environment. It’s chaotic and uncharted. Everyone’s feeling around in the dark trying to figure it out. Kelly hasn’t figured it out, but apparently very few, if any other coaches have either. The transfer portal has impacted depth for everyone, so it’s not unreasonable to suspect that key injuries are going to have a greater impact on teams than it has historically.

Fire Kelly, then what? What coach do you feel truly confident has the new world order figured out? Who really knows what the keys to success are or how to determine which coaches do?

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My explanation is that I am humble enough to admit I don’t know what’s going on in college football right now. Traditional ways of thinking about what leads to successful programs don’t appear to be holding true in this environment.

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I can respect this. But it seems you were already using historic judgments (myself included).

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Fire Kelly, then what? What coach do you feel truly confident has the new world order figured out? Who really knows what the keys to success are or how to determine which coaches do?

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This is why Blockbuster and others completely misunderstood the changing landscape.

My point:

You can have the most money and still failing.

Failing to understand your failing is the problem. Might as well quadruple down and not have eyes.

The defense is good not great and Perkins still looks lost at times. The OL is last in CFB they got manhandled by VANDERBILT! QB is starting to get some velocity back but is not a threat to run AT ALL. We are terrible at short yardage situations.

If we are going to win tomorrow the defense will HAVE to learn how to stop a running QB which we have struggled with badly. The offense will have to play with TEMPO and we struggle with that, and we will need to win the turnover battle.

Look miracles can happen but we need a complete game in almost every facet to pull it off.

You clearly haven’t watched this team. Defense can’t get off the field and are injury plagued. Offense can’t do anything. They are flat and honestly look soft.