re: Never seen so many grown men cry over a 10-2 football season

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the rest of the SEC remains dysfunctional.

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Haven't checked the BCS standings lately have you?

Arkansas got obliterated by the top teams they faced last year and beat up on those below them and also going through a coaching upheaval

Auburn had Cam a 1 hit wonder, Chiz has never done anything outside of that 1 remarkable player

Florida is going through a transition of offensive systems trying to convert those brought in for the spread into what Muschamp wants.

Of course LSU will never have seasons like that because Miles brings stability and recruits kids who fit the system he runs along with the type that Chavis likes.

The issue this year isn't injuries, every team faces injuries and suspension. Losing those players hurt and probably cost LSU the Florida game but they did not cost LSU the Alabama game coaching did. Injuries are part of the game and honestly LSU has been lucky as in recent years LSU has remained relatively injury free.
I believe is biggest thing about this year. It isn't like last years National Title game where Alabama dominated from start to finish. This time LSU dominated and because of some coaching decisions LSU lost.
Is 10 wins a good/great season? Yeah but not when your goal is a national title. There are no trophies for second place (really they have them but they are pointless)
Long way from Hallman days but again the Hallman days were a long time ago and LSU has been a premier team for over a decade now so our expectations have been raised. We no longer just hope to stay within 14 of Alabama and Florida we expect to beat them. We expect 10 wins, we expect to challenge for national title, we expect to win, when we don't it is a disappointment and a feeling of failure. No team has more talent than LSU, teams have equal talent but no team has more.

I'm as upset about the game management snafus in the Bama game as anyone else

But while we have these occasional game management snafus, you can't argue that the coaching staff is doing a lot of things right to have the team at the level they are.

This was a young team that was decimated by injuries and we reeled off 10 wins in the SEC and were competitive in every game. That's respectable IMO. Nothing to be embarrassed about. And I'm pretty confident we'll be in the mix next year with a possible chance at an SEC and/or national title.

But the point is we're in the BCS title talk almost every year

We were a couple plays away from being a shoe in for the game this year

I like our chances of being in the mix next year as well

If you can't appreciate that type of consistency then I don't know what to tell you

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I understand stand your points, I really do. But tdeucen had a great post and put it in great perspective in my opinion.

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It's just absurd to act like the season is a failure if we don't win a national title

The fact that we are in the mix every year and we'll probably get to another NC game eventually is pretty promising

Great perspective is the Dinardo years. shite even the Saban years weren't this good.

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If the posi-Tigers want to continue to whistle past this graveyard, have at it. But don't get on your high horse about those LSU fans who expect something more from their team.

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HaHa...perfect post. I love the "whistling past the graveyard" bit. I myself do not feel very celebratory about this "10 win" season, because honestly, this team does not deserve "10 wins." Yes, there are many other teams that would be thrilled with our record, but we are LSU! When did our pride and desire to be number 1 cease? Being top 5 or top 10 is now the standard of our ultimate success?

I really think you underestimate the amount of adversity this team overcame to get to this point

The fact that a BCS bowl is even a plausible scenario right now is worth smiling about

This could have very easily been 2008 all over again

It was a meh kind of year IMO. No one on this board thought we would lose to Florida. Alabama loss, I get, but we outplayed Florida for almost 3 quarters and came up empty. 2 point win against arguably the worst Auburn team ever and struggling with Towson and Idaho??

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Name one SEC game that was fun to watch.

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How old are you? Seriously.

I had a blast at the 4 SEC games I went to.

I can't believe we lost to a crappy Fla team. But we had a crappy QB at the time.

I'm still crushed by the Gump loss (I was there in the NEZ watching it come at me). If Alleman makes a short FG the game is different. And I think Chief screwed up badly (same yesterday).

But we can't win all the time. I find it hard to believe some of you can function in life with as much importance as you place on this.

Some of you are just deluded.