re: Raise your hand if you were the 8-4/7-5/6-6 prognosticator....

The I told you so people last year and the year before were reveling that their lack of faith in our players and coaches was born out on the field. It was unbecoming.

Saying I told you so in the opposite way this year is perfectly fine. We should all be reveling in our team's success. Even more enjoyable if you were not a member of the catastrophy syndrome fan base that helped create an aura of negativity around the program (that in part is leading to us not separating in the human polls from other 1-loss teams despite being the most challenged).

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Even more enjoyable if you were not a member of the catastrophy syndrome fan base that helped create an aura of negativity around the program

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It really is more sweet now that all the chicken little morons have been proven wrong. It's a shame that they'll be back again at the first sign of adversity.

I imagine that most people who picked us to go 11-1 or 10-2 are the people who pick LSU to go 11-1 or 10-2 every year.

I'm pleasantly surprised with just how good the defense is playing. That being said, I'm still pretty accurate on Gary Crowton and his sorry excuse for an offense.

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It really is more sweet now that all the chicken little morons have been proven wrong. It's a shame that they'll be back again at the first sign of adversity.

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considering our lackluster play, this entire season has felt like a stack of cards

with each game, the base does seem to be getting stronger

i thought 8-4 then 7-5

i was wrong

i ate crow after the bama game

heres to our seniors!

I said 11-1 AT WORST 10-2

I said 9-1 going into Ole Miss, likely to beat them and a bit nervouse about Arkansas.

I posted back on July 26th or so that LSU go 11-1 and hoping for 12-0.
I said that LSU would loose to Florida and then beat them in SEC CG.

NOW FOR THE REASON THEY ARE NOT 10-0 AND THEY ARE 9-1. You have to remember that their offense is weak and they depend on their defense for great field possition to help their offense be successful.

To me this is the problem LSU has on defense and that is containment discipline and if they would have this they would be more physicle and undefeated. Cam Newton would not have been able to run wild the way he did.
I still think had Chavis instilled disapline and stayed at home instead of LSU would have won that game. Being overly impatient allows the offensive player to react to you before you react to him, and Definition for impatient
- annoyed at waiting: annoyed or tending to be annoyed at being kept waiting or by being delayed- eager: eager to do something immediately, and unwilling to wait

To me this is what's missing on the defensive side of the ball and that is discipline, the ability or the reason for a player staying within his coverage area to keep an offensive player contained within an area for other defensive players to react to help in subdueing that offensive player. That is the only way a defensive team can be successful in keeping Cam Newton from running wild over their defensive players. He takes advantage of a group of definsive players inability to stay within a given area to contain him and that is why LSU failed in containing Newton.

That type of disipline is learned from repetition over and over so that it becomes a habbit so that it automaticly becomes apart of his playing ability. The ability to make an offensive player give away what he is going to do before the defensive player does so that once he sees what the offensive players intentions are the defensive player can react on those intentions, To keep him contained so he can make the play to stop him or contain him so that he can recieve help to make a play on him before he makes a bigger play out of a big play or keep him from gaining any ground. JMHO!

But! LSU has a awsome defense because they are super fast and with a little discipline LSU would be the best defense in all of College Football.

I SAY!

I said 9-3. Technically....I could still be right.