re: Realistic expectations!

no, we shouldn't expect alot out of the tigers except that we have been recruiting in the top 5 every other year. LSU needs to be playing at the top of their game next year. In two or three more years, LSU will have another championship. We have a good budget and a state to ourselves to recruit from, we should be a contender every year. we've just had the misfortune of having charlie mac, curly hallman, and gerry dinardo lowering our expectations. These guys

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Historically, that is elite performance, and if the program produces that on a consistent basis, no one really has the right to bitch, even if there are down years in between.

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It does not take long to decline. It is not that uncommon for teams to decline. Teams that have recently been successful can fall hard and fast. Bama is in great shape for a long run. LSU is not. This is because of coaching. The last 2 years for Bama were not a fluke. LSU could easily be a 7-9 win team (and 8-8 in SEC play over 2 years) every year with a bunch of coaches nationally. If this is what we want then we don't need to pay Les 3.7 mil a year for this production.

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In two or three more years, LSU will have another championship.

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Have you watched Bama the last 2 years. A perfect record the last 2 regular seasons. What makes you think Les is capable of challenging Bama for a West Title? I am not even talking about a National Title. This is delusional to predict a National Championship. Les has struggled with Ole Miss and Florda as well. A National Title maybe in the future, but with Les vs Saban no way. Saban may have an off game, but Les will have 2 or 3 off games to Saban's 1 off game. The margin for error is so much smaller with a coach like Saban in the West. Les just can't compete consistently with that level of coaching. He has proved this for the last 2 years.

[quote]Realistic expectations!
I love winning a BSC championship as much as any fanatic, BUT, for the retards who think it will happen on a yearly basis, GET REAL.
There are tons of premier teams who have not won a championship in a while; life goes on.
I understand that we pay big bucks, but so does everyone else who aspires greatness.
Hell, we won two in the last six yrs.
Are you really expecting to play in the championship game every yr?
There are tons of people who would die to have Saban back, and even the great Meyer and Saban aren't playing for it every yr. Saban has only played for it twice in.... yep, six yrs and Meyer is now broken because of the stress from the UF retards.
When did having great seasons and quality, respectable kids not become the desired outcome.

I'm sorry, but this post makes way too much sense. You're going to have to edit it to say,

1) LSU has more mondo talented 'beasts' than the combined rosters of the rest of college football.

2) at 51-14, LSU and especially it's coaching staff are grossly underperforming and obviously "in over their heads".

3) with two natchams in the last 7yrs LSU and it's fans have now reached a level of entitlement heretofore only seen exhibited by the fans at that catholic school up there in Indiana.

good post...happy new year. Geaux.

You said: LSU is among bottom of conference in penalties and to's.
Those two things are biggest traits of an undiscplined fb team.
LSU just wanst very fun to watch mainly b/c of a shitty offense



we were # 1 in penalties in 07... won the BCS title

UF was # 1 in penalties in 06... won the BCS title

Get a clue... Roll Tide!

My realistic expectation is a full return to the 90s. We're getting to witness the monumental event of the moving backwards of time.

I've hopped in the car with Bad Cat, Lonnie, CalTiger and the rest of the clowns to embrace the return of true LSU football. Just like Florida was the true Florida before the 90s, LSU was the true LSU before the 00s. Florida has accepted their elite status, LSU has decided to give it back. It's only right, as I read in history that Louisiana was actually built on an excuse.

Miles4life!

What a retard. Oops I meant ranter. It here a difference or should that be a subject of a new topic. You can use yourself as an example.

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So UF and Bama are having a little run

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LSU never participated in the SECCG until 2001.

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three of those losses to UF and bama were nailbiters that turned on one single play?

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Miles4life! I'm with you brother!

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A goal yes, but not an expectation.

Any coach in the SEC would laugh any AD out of the room who gave him a contract to sign stating that an SEC title was a yearly expectation.

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And any coach in the SEC would laugh his arse all the way to the bank if any AD told him he would pay him $3.7 million a year if he can go .500 in the SEC.

Nobody expects a championship every year. Reasonable people who are paying a top 5 or top 10 salary to a coach expect to be above .500 in their conference over a 2-year period.

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we are going through a period of rebuilding certain key positions and i am willing to give miles and company the chance to rebuild

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That's what this year was. After the disaster of 2008, he was given a chance to rebuild (a program that was already fully built when it was handed to him, by the way).

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if he doesn't do it, yes, i will be for making a change.

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He didn't do it. How long does he get? Saban had Alabama undefeated in the regular season and playing for the SEC title in his second year. Miles has just completed his second year of this supposed "rebuilding" process, and we're nowhere close to that. Only a complete idiot would think we have a snowball's chance in hell of being anywhere close to that next year, the third year of this "rebuilding" period. How far along is Saban in the third year of his rebuilding project?

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i believe if miles wins another NC in the next coupla years, there will be little difference in the critisism.

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That's bullshite. Nobody just wants to complain about Miles. We'd all much rather watch him win NCs and talk about how great he is. Coaches get the praise and criticism they deserve. If Miles weren't performing like an idiot, very few people would think he is one. Since he is, we do.