re: LSU or Ole Miss in 2009

LSU - We own Ole Miss in Oxford. Ole Miss has a weak recruiting year and even though they'll have a better QB in my opinion, we'll have a better overall team. The team.

Nutt is crazy and a better coach than he gets credit for, but he won't pull that same game on us next year.

LSU needs to improve alot in alot of areas before they can claim the SEC West.

Guys, the West will run through Oxford. I guarantee the OM/Bama and OM/LSU game in Oxford will determine who goes to the SEC Championship.

We lose Oher off the line on offense. John Jerry, an underrated RT, will take his place on the LT, and Markuson has done a good job in recruiting some big JUCO OL to come in and contribute.

We return 17 starters (considering Hardy doesn't go pro).

Wallace is good, but we're probably going to land Patrick Patterson, the best WR in the state, and you guys should know Wallace isn't the only good receiver we have. Shay Hodge, McCluster (whoever said he's going pro is insane, he's 5'7 165lbs.), Summers, Breaux, Andrew Harris, and others.

On defense, we lose Peria Jerry, but Jerrell Powe has started to contribute more and more as the season has gone on and should do a great job. We have Tillman, Hardy, Lockett, Powe, Lawson Scott, and plenty of others on the line.

As far as LBs, we only lose Fein and Palmer, both of which didn't even start at times this season.

Secondary, we lose Jamarca Samford but Johnny Brown has experience and has done a great job as a backup. We're also adding 5 star Demond Washington and Ohio State transfer James Scott at the corners.


Bash all you guys want about Ole Miss, and I would expect you to, but if we play next season like we finished this season, the West is Ole Miss's to lose.

Bama

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People are forgetting some of the guys we're losing in the process.

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Maybe, but maybe they are just remembering that two of the guys we are losing are Mallory and Peveto.

LSU this year was like Usain Bolt racing with a broken leg and finishing 3rd. Because of freakishly bad coaching that has already been changed, we finished 3rd this year behind some teams that may or may not be just as good next year. But basing predictions for next year on LSU's performance this year makes about as much sense as predicting Bolt would keep finishing 3rd after his leg healed.

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But basing predictions for next year on LSU's performance this year makes about as much sense as predicting Bolt would keep finishing 3rd after his leg healed.

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Basing next year's success on a bowl victory over Georgia Tech is foolhardy as well.

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Because of freakishly bad coaching that has already been changed,

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It was also (and mostly) cause by freakishly bad QB play. It wasn't just the defense.

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Basing next year's success on a bowl victory over Georgia Tech is foolhardy as well.

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Basing anything solely on one game other than the outcome of that game is silly. That's why I was suggesting a broader picture.

Judging next year based solely on one game is too narrow a view. So is judging LSU's program based solely on the results of one season. The caliber of players and coaches (now) are proven Championship level. To assume that one aberrant season is indicative of the future is fairly foolish, especially when there are strong indications of specific causes for the aberration, and those causes have been changed.

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if you cant see the offense was just a big a problem and the QB situation was the main reason you lost 5 games, you are just fricking dumb, or delusional.

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No offense that puts up 38 points (even if they give up two pick 6s) is to blame for losing a game where the defense gave up 5 60+ TD drives. You give up 38 points to long drives, you have failed miserably. An offense that puts up 38 and gives up 14 has still put its defense 24 points ahead. That's not a miserable failure.

If you can't see that, I don't really care what your problem is. I'll just thank god you don't coach any team I care about.

You sound just like the idiots who blamed that '98 Notre Dame loss on the offense because they couldn't score "when they needed to."

We had the game tied, 7-7, early on. Then the defense goes out and gives up two 70+ yard TD drives back to back, and BAM! we're down two TDs. So the offense puts up 10 straight to pull us back to within 4, and what does the defense do? Give up 17 straight, all starting from inside the Georgia 36, and BAM! we're down 21. So our offense goes out and puts up another TD to cut back into the lead, and what does the defense do? Give up ANOTHER LONG TD DRIVE!

Yeah, sounds like the Steel Curtain to me.

And the last time Ole Miss put together two solid seasons in a row was????