Just spoke with a Missouri fan

It seems your friend also doesn't understand how numbers work

LSU does lose a lot of production, leaving us at number 124 on returning production in CFB.

But Missouri is 100th

They lost about as much as we did

I think it’s rich that a Mizzou fan is talking about how he’s not worried about the defending national champs.

I don’t think literally anyone has worried about Missouri maybe ever. Except Kansas.

He shouldn't be worried. Why worry about a game that you know you're going to lose? That's just another thing to be stressed about.

If he truly isn't worried, make a bet with him on the game and rake in some easy cash.

We've been through high turnover/attrition many many times before. The things you do for such are not alien to LSU's staff.

We saw it not hurt, hurt moderately, and hurt alot various times with Les. Sometimes the turnover happened to Les after a great year, sometimes after an average year. He had to face it in both directions, on incline and decline. I can't help but remember the 2011 season was supposed to be a down year because of losses but the experience of some of the players in 2010 (e.g. Honey Badger, Ware) turned a negative into a positive.

However, this will be, obviously, Orgeron's first high turnover year following an incline/great year. I sort of see it as the last checkbox on the "Coach-O-Meter" for him and how he handles following this year with last. It's obvious he won't be able to match 2019... but how far does the pendulum swing is that metric.

I think CEO is going to surprise people when LSU's pendulum doesn't swing back the other way as far their team's would be such as a 7-5 season after winning the East.

The nation is in for a rude awakening. This ain’t like the old days where we have enough players for a one year run and are decimated. We’re plugging in elite talent at almost all positions of loss. We also got 3/4 best players back from last year’s team.

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Still amazes me that Missouri is thought to be a southern state?

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The southern third or so of Missouri is still very Southern culturally. Think Springfield, Branson, the Ozark Valley, etc.

But once you get to the middle of the state with Kansas City, Columbia, and St. Louis, the culture becomes Midwestern very quickly.

It's similar to Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida in that way where you have extremely Southern regions of the state and very non-Southern regions of the state.

But did you remind him that the football team he's a fan of is Missouri?

I think their coach has done a good job of creating some off-season/social media buzz especially locally on the recruiting trail.

All that won't mean jack shite when we kick the ball off and start punching them in the face. I think coach Drink has a shot to win some games at mizzou, but it's going to take a little while.