It's DD's 42nd year, will she finally win? What is realisitic outlook?

u - she is great coach - as in life - second best is not bad!

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For LSU to win the national championship, they will have to blow programs like Oklahoma, Alabama, and UCLA out, which means they need to be close to perfect AND those programs (depending on which make the finals) need to struggle to the point where the average viewer can tell.

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Exactly. This is my problem with sports where subjective judging determines the winner (gymnastics and figure skating are the 2 major sports where this is the case). The "bluebloods" are consistently given inflated scores, even when they falter. Oklahoma was the benefit of this in both 2016 and 2017.

Agree with most of the above...sort of like trying to beat a boxing Champ, you have to beat them bad or judges go with the Champ.

Having said this, we built the best (or among) facilities 5 years ago, have great recruiting classes since hiring Jay, have made final 6 most years so would think we are near blueblood? Also from 1982-2012 only 4 teams ever won NCAA (Utah, UCLA, UGA, Bama) but in past 6 two new teams won (OU, UF). How are we not in top 6 programs by now if less than 40 or so BCS teams exist and only 52 total? We have the resources etc. how do we not get in this group? Judges have not been a problem at home (have not lost in 3 years)...

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You know a large majority of the BCS is taken from polls, which are purely subjective?

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Partially. The original BCS was a combination of the polls which has hundreds if not thousands of voters which reduces the biases. but a large part was also strength of schedule and your opponents strength of schedule. it didn't have a small group of people going behind closed doors and picking teams that they think are the best. No one knows what formula they use to determine this, then they will throw out a bullshite term like eye test.

I hope so and then she turns it over to Jay.
I would love to see a 30 for 30 on Lexi if they win the Natty. What a great ending to a great career that would make.

Next years recruiting class is much stronger than this year and they are depending on more unproven athletes this year. Would think they have a better chance in 2020. Hoping Jay and family are happy and stick in BR, thats probably more of a factor than DD. Either way they are top 4 and have a chance if the cards fall right.

LSU was a title IX waste land for decades under DD as place holder/coach. When she hired the assistant from Georgia she was instantly elevated to great coach. DD has collect 40 years of checks and never earned a dime until she made a great hire

valid point, although I would pint out Bama and UGA won 12 NC's since 1982 when NCAA Gym began and when their AD's included Vince Dooley and The Bear..so other football dominate programs won at women's sports way before us, just as LSU did again and again in Track. TN in WB, UGA in Women's tennis etc etc But I do give DD credit for hiring because we did not ever ever win SEC before that...38 mostly wasted years...

looking at the roster, it looks like we didn’t pick up that much from last year, and we lost that one awesome beam routine.

I don’t like hearing that next years signing class is the one, considering that Sarah won’t be around for that one.

Will need some people to really step up to win the title this year.