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Is LSU football’s floor .500? Not capable of ever going below 6-6?
Posted on 11/20/25 at 2:17 pm
Posted on 11/20/25 at 2:17 pm
Is post 90s LSU too established and too much of a recruiting/talent hotbed to ever go worse than 6-6 in a bad year?
The reason I ask is because rock bottom for Les was 8-5, Ed was 5-5, Kelly 5-4.
Basically, lsu just has too much of a talent advantage to let bad coaching and bad locker room result in 4-8 or 5-7.
The only possible scenario it happens would be injuries all over the roster.
Am I wrong? Is LSU capable of producing a 5-7 or 4-8 season, or is there too much talent in any given year?
The reason I ask is because rock bottom for Les was 8-5, Ed was 5-5, Kelly 5-4.
Basically, lsu just has too much of a talent advantage to let bad coaching and bad locker room result in 4-8 or 5-7.
The only possible scenario it happens would be injuries all over the roster.
Am I wrong? Is LSU capable of producing a 5-7 or 4-8 season, or is there too much talent in any given year?
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Posted on 11/20/25 at 2:22 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I don't know that below 6-6 is impossible due to any systemic advantage.
I do think that since the hiring of Nick Saban and all that came from it, LSU's administration has demonstrated a clear commitment to not letting things go back to what happened in the late 80's and 90's.
Literally every other SEC school except for Georgia has had a sub .500 regular season since 2000. They saw things starting to falter under Richt and moved to correct it. LSU has now done this three times - Miles, O and Kelly.
I do think that since the hiring of Nick Saban and all that came from it, LSU's administration has demonstrated a clear commitment to not letting things go back to what happened in the late 80's and 90's.
Literally every other SEC school except for Georgia has had a sub .500 regular season since 2000. They saw things starting to falter under Richt and moved to correct it. LSU has now done this three times - Miles, O and Kelly.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 2:54 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
They should have gone below .500 just a few years ago in 2021. If it wasn't for a last second TD we would have been 5-7. Our Floor is not .500. Especially with going to the 9 game SEC schedule if we get the wrong Coach we could easily go below .500 in any season if we are not managed the right way.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 2:59 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Don’t ever believe that.
In the NIL era, if the money spigot is turned off things would get bad in a hurry.
What if Clemson and Florida weren’t down this year?
In the NIL era, if the money spigot is turned off things would get bad in a hurry.
What if Clemson and Florida weren’t down this year?
This post was edited on 11/20/25 at 3:27 pm
Posted on 11/20/25 at 3:27 pm to IM_4_LSU
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if we get the wrong Coach we could easily go below .500 in any season if we are not managed the right way.
We had the perfect storm of extenuating factors along with a complacent, distracted and checked out coach who was fired in October and kept on as a lame duck and we still finished .500. And that was the only full season in the last 25 years we didnt win at least 8 games. Hell even this year we have a shot at 8 wins.
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They should have gone below .500 just a few years ago in 2021
But they didn't. That's why its a floor. To use this same "what if" logic, we "could" have won two games we lost and been 8-4. Which would make the floor 8-4.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 3:31 pm to Basura Blanco
all bets are off with a 9 game sec schedule
Posted on 11/20/25 at 3:41 pm to TheHarahanian
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n the NIL era, if the money spigot is turned off things would get bad in a hurry.
bingo!
pre NIL was a different ballgame.
the covid season can be thrown out also as it was trash and not normal.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 3:52 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
LSU was a shoe toss away from being below .500 just a few short years ago. That was all about another team's lack of discipline and not LSU's talent advantage.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 3:53 pm to Basura Blanco
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But they didn't. That's why its a floor.
Thats not the way a floor works. They ended the season 6-7 which was below .500. Sure they finish the regular season 6-6 but when you take 2 seasons you go 11-12 thats below .500 therefore your floor is not .500. A floor is the worst you can be. 2021 being 6-6 was not the worst we could be.
Going to a 9 game schedule if we get the wrong coach there is absolutely a possiblity of going below .500. Just as we could easily have gone .500 this season. Poor management by a coach can bring down the floor. Some coaches have higher floors, i.e Les having a higher floor than O.
Just because you won the game doesn't mean that is the floor. SMH
Posted on 11/20/25 at 4:16 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
We went 6-7 in 2021. That’s below .500
Posted on 11/20/25 at 4:16 pm to IM_4_LSU
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Sure they finish the regular season 6-6 but when you take 2 seasons you go 11-12 thats below .500 therefore your floor is not .500. A floor is the worst you can be. 2021 being 6-6 was not the worst we could be.
The OP's question was obviously regular season only as he noted 6-6. So now you are not only including a bowl game in 2021, you are ignoring the fact we played a once in a lifetime ten game All-SEC schedule in 2020 and using that criteria to come up with the only two
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Going to a 9 game schedule if we get the wrong coach there is absolutely a possiblity of going below .500
[quote]Going to a 9 game schedule if we get the wrong coach there is absolutely a possibility of going below .500
At least this one makes some sense without manipulating shite. Even then, this one only becomes a remote possibility if we keep the marquee P5 opening game concept going, which we of course do with Clemson coming to TS. I mean, look at this season. The fricking wheels came off in a dumpster fire catastrophic that stretch's any reasonable persons definition of "capable" , yet it would have to happen again (in the form of a loss at home to WKU) and we would still be a game above .500. And then we would have to go 5-7 in 2026 to get back to .500 It would the first losing regular season in almost 30 years. I dont define that as "capable".
Posted on 11/20/25 at 4:33 pm to Basura Blanco
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The OP's question was obviously regular season only as he noted 6-6.
The team played better aft O was fired. The worst outcome was not 6-6.
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this one only becomes a remote possibility if we keep the marquee P5 opening game concept going, which we of course do with Clemson coming to TS.
You must not be familiar with LSUs schedule then. LSU is keeping P4 opponents on the schedule even after next season. We have SMU, Houston, UTAH, and ASU on the books. To say LSU is not "capable" of going below 6-6 is laughable. IF they make the right hire then sure the floor can be similar to Les Miles at 7-5 but can easily be worse if the Coach is not the right one.
The landscape of College football is not the same that it was 30 years ago. What Nick built and Les maintained is no longer what the program or what the game of College Football is today. Comparing this era to that is not comparing apples to apples. Its the same for why I didn't bring up Dinardo's exit and the bad seasons in the 90's.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 6:37 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
lsu is a 7-5 / 8-4 program
lane dipshit kiffen isnt changing that…
lane dipshit kiffen isnt changing that…
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