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Throwing out W-L, what is the real expectations for the LSU football team?
Posted on 12/20/13 at 9:48 am
Posted on 12/20/13 at 9:48 am
I for one would just like for this team to be in the hunt for the SEC West Title year in year out. With the coaching salaries and the yearly recruiting outcomes, I don't think this is an unrealistic goal. Take care of the division, and things will fall into place for the bigger picture.
Also finishing in the Top 10-12 at the end of the season with a decent bowl game.
Finishing below 2nd in the West seems unacceptable for these teams, but it happens. What does everyone else say?
Also finishing in the Top 10-12 at the end of the season with a decent bowl game.
Finishing below 2nd in the West seems unacceptable for these teams, but it happens. What does everyone else say?
Posted on 12/20/13 at 9:50 am to pheeyok
National championship or fire everybody
Posted on 12/20/13 at 9:52 am to pheeyok
Realistically, the expectation should be that the team competes well for the SEC West and, in turn, the SEC title. You win those, you're in the Natty.
Posted on 12/20/13 at 9:57 am to harry coleman beast
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National championship or fire everybody
this
Posted on 12/20/13 at 10:00 am to GeauxColonels
I agree that the most realistic expectation is that we compete late in the season every year to get to Atlanta. The main goal in my mind is to win the SEC, and to win it, you have to get to Atlanta.
If you go back and look at it, we've made 3 SEC title games, and have been in the hunt in November for 3 additional years. We've only been "out" of the West race by November in 3 of Les' 9 seasons (2008, 2009, 2013).
Let's keep 'em.
If you go back and look at it, we've made 3 SEC title games, and have been in the hunt in November for 3 additional years. We've only been "out" of the West race by November in 3 of Les' 9 seasons (2008, 2009, 2013).
Let's keep 'em.
Posted on 12/20/13 at 10:01 am to pheeyok
I just expect us to be in strong competition for the West every year. Any expectations beyond that are completely unrealistic.
Posted on 12/20/13 at 10:02 am to pheeyok
Expectation is always to win the division first, and then to start looking toward other things.
LSU should almost always be in contention for the division.
This is where we are as a program.
LSU should almost always be in contention for the division.
This is where we are as a program.
Posted on 12/20/13 at 10:02 am to harry coleman beast
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National championship or fire everybody
Posted on 12/20/13 at 10:04 am to GeauxColonels
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Realistically, the expectation should be that the team competes well for the SEC West and, in turn, the SEC title. You win those, you're in the Natty.
We happen to be in the toughest division of the toughest conference in college football. I don't put the goal at a specific rank etc. I just want to be competitive. At our level we should certainly have a good chance to win the SEC pretty much every year.
Posted on 12/20/13 at 10:07 am to harry coleman beast
Multiple national championships in a row or fire everyone.
Posted on 12/20/13 at 10:09 am to pheeyok
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real expectations for the LSU football team
We are LSU. Why should we ever lose a game?
Posted on 12/20/13 at 10:12 am to Camp Randall
I would like to think we'd be a part of the four-team playoff once every four years, which seems realistic and fair given how well we recruit.
Posted on 12/20/13 at 10:16 am to PurpleAndGold86
We have a top 5 paid coach and the highest paid staff. "Competing" what does that mean? We should be regularly in in the new playoff. 1 out of 3 years at least.
Posted on 12/20/13 at 10:24 am to 1609tiger
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We should be regularly in in the new playoff. 1 out of 3 years at least.
Wow
Posted on 12/20/13 at 10:25 am to pheeyok
I don't get these so called "trap" games. The OM debacle this year was ugly. We lost to a depleted OM team. We can excuse that, and say OM always plays us tough. Who's at fault here for the flat play? Coaches? Players? It's hard to compete when we drop games like this knowing Bama is on coming up in the schedule.
Posted on 12/20/13 at 10:27 am to Tigerpaul1969
Well the seccg is the first weekend in December. So yeah we usually are out of the race come November. But really weren't our of it til the last weekend of every year except 2008, 2009, 2013. Even last year we were still in it until bama beat auburn.
Posted on 12/20/13 at 10:30 am to pheeyok
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It's hard to compete when we drop games like this knowing Bama is on coming up in the schedule.
Yet for the 3rd time in 4 years bama doesn't win the west. Maybe other teams aren't as bad as fans make them out to be. Since the best program has gone 1 for 4 in the division race with an easy schedule.
This post was edited on 12/20/13 at 10:31 am
Posted on 12/20/13 at 11:18 am to dgnx6
West Title or BCS Type Bowl once every three years at worse. I think this is fair considering the resources and salaries. Being in the hunt isn't good enough
Posted on 12/20/13 at 11:36 am to pheeyok
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I don't get these so called "trap" games. The OM debacle this year was ugly. We lost to a depleted OM team. We can excuse that, and say OM always plays us tough. Who's at fault here for the flat play? Coaches? Players? It's hard to compete when we drop games like this knowing Bama is on coming up in the schedule.
Trap games are actually easy to understand. There are emotional ebbs and flows to a season, and it's just not possible for a team to be emotionally high for all 12 games.
Games against "lesser" teams or games that fall just before a bigger look-ahead game are classic "trap" games, because the emotion and intensity just aren't going to be at a peak. It's natural and there's really not too much a coach can go about it.
But I do think that LSU has deeper "valleys" throughout the year than Bama, which has shallower dips in intensity. Bama had a let-up against Colorado State and Miss St this year, but still won handily.
I completely predicted the flat game we had against Ole Miss. It was the last of 5 consecutive weeks of conference games and the third road game in four weeks. And they're not a huge game for us.
Posted on 12/20/13 at 11:59 am to pheeyok
quote:LSU is hunting and competing, but not winning many SEC West titles lately.
I for one would just like for this team to be in the hunt for the SEC West Title year in year out. With the coaching salaries and the yearly recruiting outcomes, I don't think this is an unrealistic goal. Take care of the division, and things will fall into place for the bigger picture.
Also finishing in the Top 10-12 at the end of the season with a decent bowl game.
Finishing below 2nd in the West seems unacceptable for these teams, but it happens. What does everyone else say?
That's perfectly fine and acceptable for all the pathetic "Low standards of Excellence" cheerleading losers, (The "That's OK. I'm satisfied. Remember the 90's. We'll be Fine" bunch. ) but totally unacceptable for the normal majority of the fan base that isn't plagued with self-esteem and other mental issues.
I'm not really interested in being locked behind Alabama and Auburn now in the West, nor should anybody that's in full control of their wits. That's why there's not much interest in the Bowl game right now or excitement for the program. Doesn't matter who we sign either, (Fournette, etc) because we know just exactly who and what we have on the sidelines and he'll find a way to will his team into 2-3 losses every season.
We'll see after the Steak Bowl just how serious Les Miles is about winning an SEC Championship, by if and how quickly he makes the much needed multiple staff changes that need to happen.
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