re: Is it more important to some LSU fans to be realist just to be right or......

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Jan 9 2012 cut that part of my fanhood out

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You are an idiot then. Making it to a NCG is what every fan dreams about for their team. At lease fans who are not brain dead.

Being a realist makes the improbable events all the more special.

If you think this team is capable of what others might call impossible, then what's there to be excited about when it happens, except for throwing it in the "realists" face?

You're just doing the same thing that you're accusing the realists of, you're just on the other side of it. You want to be able to say "HA, I always believed in them when you guys didn't!"

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Everyone that follows the game knows we were losing a massive amount of talent and would be playing a lot of young guys. So yes..........this was supposed to be a down year.

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We did lose some talent, I wouldn't say it was a massive amount though. and we've played lots of young guys year after year. Losing to Mississippi State in the fashion we did and losing to Troy, in any fashion, is unacceptable.

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But no way did anyone predict this to be a championship year.

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Coach o must have or he shouldn't have said that LSU would be in the playoffs.

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But to think that this team was going to contend for the SEC championship............with all those SEC road games no less.........was foolhardy.

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Well, I didn't think we would contend for a championship this year and my guess is you didn't think we would and whoever wrote the three articles you posted didn't think we would contend for a championship, but the point I was trying to make in my original post was that there was a ton of people here on the rant that drank Coach o's kool-aid of this team making the playoffs. And up to the Miss. St. beat down and the Troy loss, there were lots of posts going on and on about how talented this team was. After those two losses, the narrative changed to we lacked depth and talent and that an 8 win year we would respectable and that 9 wins would be fantastic. Stuff that was never consider acceptable in years past.

And all those road games except for the bama game (and Miss. St. to an extent) are against teams that are having terrible years. With the games left to play (and the horrible losses to date) anything less than 10 wins is a disappointing season in my opinion.

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I'd argue that it's precisely BECAUSE we love LSU football that we offer legitimate critique. We want the program to be the best it can be.

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That's my thinking.

Most of the Snowflake Pump Lump Pumpnuts could totally care less if the program is the best it can be.

They're satisfied with the program being the most mediocre it can be.

Low (How low can you go?) standards of excellence for themselves and the LSU football program.

Keep those SPLP's away from me and out of my space. They smell bad!.............