re: I have been thinking A LONG TIME about this.........

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How come the weekness of this football team is the position our HC played in college?

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attrition

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For some reason you think every team in the SEC can improve except LSU

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When have I EVER said this????

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The Boat

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No more Black, Hitt, hopefully no more T-Bob.

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Jefferson will make some good improvements. You learn a lot from your first year as a starter.

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I'm either extremely confused or its painfully obvious you are biased against certian players b/c you totally contradicted yourself.


BTW hey everybody, good to be back.

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POSSIBLE!!

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Probable.

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Based on WHAT????

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Ridley showed he was capable last season. Ford looks the part. Richard Murphy can hit a homerun. 3 very talented backs with Murphy being the weakest of the bunch IMO.

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You have said RIGHT THERE that you are worried about the MOST IMPORTANT THING.

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Of course I'm worried about it. We won't have an undersized line with a LT sporting a busted knee. This line will be probably like 2008s IMO. Not absolutely fantastic but enough to win 10 games IMO.

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We are SUPPOSED to have a better o-line THIS YEAR

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Until I see otherwise, Hurst and Lonergan will be upgrades from the starters last year. If Barksdale plays only "as well" at LT as he did on the right, it is only logical that the line play will be better.

QBs have been known to improve as they play. I agree that we didn't see an improvement from 2008 to 2009. Even incremental improvement, along with better line play and better production running the ball could be huge - the synergy of minor improvements in all of those phases will be noticeable.

WR play is expected to be perhaps a little better, as well. Certainly Shepard is an explosive, game-changing threat out of the slot.

dukke v

Here is a read from an article that is on another thread I found quite intresting and the intire article is great reading also. Here is the portion on the OL. Here also is the Link:

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OFFENSIVE LINE – LSU’s line was awful last year, and it didn’t have to be. Out of a misplaced sense of seniority Miles had seniors Ciron Black and Lyle Hitt playing virtually every down, but Black’s knees were so bad he had to have one replaced after the season and Hitt, at barely 280 pounds, was simply too small to be effective in the SEC. When Alex Hurst and Will Blackwell were on the field, LSU’s line was considerably better. Now, those two have replaced Black and Hitt in the lineup.

The line will open the season with senior Joseph Barksdale flipping from right tackle to left tackle to take Black’s spot. Barksdale should be poised for a big senior season; he has everything you look for in a potential star, and his play on the right side was relatively solid last year. Josh Dworaczyk returns at left guard, having added 25 pounds to his 6-6 frame from last year and now checking in at 307. Dworaczyk had room to improve last year as a first-year starter, but his potential was obvious. If the junior is ready to play like an upperclassman, he could be dominant. At center, sophomore P.J. Lonergan has moved ahead of junior T-Bob Hebert due to the latter’s offseason disciplinary issues – but Lonergan was likely to win the job anyway owing to his physicality and superior size (6-4, 300 as opposed to Hebert’s 6-3, 285) and strength. Lonergan gives LSU its first “big” center in recent memory, as even most of the Tigers’ excellent centers of recent vintage (Brett Helms, Ben Wilkerson, Todd McClure) weren’t particularly large. Blackwell moves in for Hitt at right guard, which is an unquestionable improvement, while Hurst gives LSU a right tackle with gargantuan (6-6, 335) size and a mean streak to match. There is ample, if somewhat inexperienced, depth; Hebert at center has game experience but backup guards Josh Williford, whom the coaches love, and Matt Branch, and backup tackles Greg Shaw and Chris Faulk are new. True freshman Evan Washington is likely to see action somewhere.

The group should be far more productive than it was last year. It is unquestionably bigger and stronger, and there is a great deal more athleticism on offer from the 2010 line.

I SAY!

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You have a Head Coach and OC that have ZERO conidence in the QB.

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I think the fact Jefferson was at Media Days shows he is the unquestioned starter at QB and leader of the offense.

I think the team will be much improved but that the record will probably be the same. I think 9-3 with an outside shot at 10-2 and at worst 8-4. So, technically, I'm predicting the team to have the same record as last year, BUT, I think the team will be improved. Clear as mud, right?