re: The so-called college experts do not know jack

The offense just has to be average and not turn the ball over and they can ride that defense to victories.

Then why did we fire Miles?

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The Tiger's defense will be far too good

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I watched Troy, Moo St, and Syracuse. How did you miss that?

If the offense isn't effective, the defense wont put enough points on the board to win

Last year, the preseason consensus was that LSU would finish 2nd to last in SECW and win 6-7 games, max. How’d those predictions work out?

Who knows if we beat the predictions again this year...all we really know for sure is that preseason sports writers are lazy and just print more of the same/the narrative.

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white, beckwith, riley, thornton, anthony, thompson, divinity, Alexander, Garnett, Rucker, patterson. Just a few of the linebackers on the roster before Ed took over.

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Thanks for including the scout team/walk-on LB’s to prove your non-existent point. Just for fun, can you tell me how many tackles Alexander, Garnett, and Rucker had?

It’s famously well-known that Aranda pointed out to O that LSU had more punters and kickers than linebackers on scholarship.

Try harder.

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This LSU D is good enough to finish year only giving up avg of 9 points/ game

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LONG, long shot.
Maybe with ball control offense, which doesn't seem to be in the cards.

Part of that has to do with the SEC competition being worse than expected.

There’s gonna be a lot of hurt feelings around here with this unrealistic expectation. Orgeron will be exposed this year for the buffoon he is.

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You forget that Coach O was smart enough to hire one of the best defensive coordinators in the business.

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You cannot be serious with this.

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This LSU D is good enough to finish year only giving up avg of 9 points/ game

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I don't think so but boy I wish:

Let me show you the chart for Wins/Losses according to Def PPG with LSU getting around 32 PPG on offense

Defense PPG allowed: 12 regular season games

18-20 PPG- 8-4 with this 2018 schedule, best 9-3 (last year 18.9 PPG and 9-3)
16-17 PPG- 9-3, best 10-2
14-15 PPG- 10-2, possible for 11-1 if we hold Bama or best challenger at or below 14 points
12-13 PPG- 11-1
10-11 PPG- 12-0

I say no way LSU holds teams to 9 PPG, but I would hope to be wrong and would gladly eat a nice oyster, shrimp and crab rice stuffed crow. If they do somehow hold teams to an avg of 9 PPG, LSU comfortably wins the Natty and goes undefeated or loses 1 game MAX (i.e. 13-10 game against Bama, UGA or Auburn).

A strong defense like that would cause many turnovers and literally break opponents down to rubble and our offense does not even need more than 30 PPG, even when padding averages by blowing out pansies. A defense like that would generate around 29-30 turnovers in the season (avg just at 2 per game if we make the Natty and play 15 games). Note: Wisconsin was 6th in 2017 with 29 turnovers gained and Wyoming had a whopping 38.

12-0 regular season
13-0 with SEC Championship
14-0 wins semifinal playoff game
15-0 wins NATTY

2017 Def stats

Bama- 11.9 PPG
Clemson- 13.6 PPG
Wisconsin- 13.9 PPG (still playing Aranda D over there)

2017 Turnovers Lost

#1- LSU with only 8 (4 fumbles and 4 int)

If we repeat that along with a great defense like I mention above, then we go all the way

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If he is hired as a head coach he will take a cut in pay because a Power 5 school is not going to hire him as a first time head coach.

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My god you are dumb. Who did Tennessee just hire again? Oklahoma last year?

And are you going to recant about O hiring aranda since he did no such thing?