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I don't know which Tigers you are watching, but I am watching the LSU Tigers and, aside from a sideline stacked with talent, I don't see anything resembling an elite program and haven't seen it for two seasons now. The team is still as unorganized and confused as they were that first night in Washington. I blamed that on the time zones. Silly me! Our team is loaded with talent. We do not have a coaching staff that knows how to use the talent and develop a reasonable system. Hell, you ever hear one of the offensive play calls? Sounds more like instructions to land the frickin' space shuttle.

We need a coach to lead this team. Keeping Les around for another year is nothing more than postponing the inevitable which means it is one more year before we get this program headed in the right direction once again. Les is a super guy. But, there are lots of super guys in this world. We don't hire them all to coach the football team. So, we can sit back and act like the little screw up in Mississippi was just that - a little screw up. Or, we can face it for what it is - the straw that broke the camel's back. We're not paying for mediocrity as is evident in the checks I write to the TAF. It is time to either get a real coach who can put a well led team on the field every week, or it's time to cut some coaches' salaries and settle for being a middle of the pack team

They are still a top 20 team, top 15 BCS program iwth two of the three losses to the top two teams in the country. The biggest problem the last two seasons has been playing with inexperienced quarterbacks following Perriloux's dismissal.

I would agree the offensive plays are too complex for these players and should be simplified and a more base offense implemented. They are a couple of plays away from being a top three team with a shot at the national title. However, perceptions can eclipse reality so I would agree the program is at somewhat of a crossroad.

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Posted by tansel

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Posted on 11/25/09 at 12:13 pm to tiger20

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They are a couple of plays away from being a top three team with a shot at the national title

tiger20, you can not make that arguement. If you say we are a couple of plays away from a shot at the national title we are also a couple of plays away from being 6-5 or 5-6 or did you not watch the Georgia, Mississippi State, and La Tech games. Did I just say La Tech? You know what forget it you're right lol!

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Posted by tiger20

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Posted on 11/25/09 at 12:34 pm to tansel

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tiger20, you can not make that arguement. If you say we are a couple of plays away from a shot at the national title we are also a couple of plays away from being 6-5 or 5-6 or did you not watch the Georgia, Mississippi State, and La Tech games. Did I just say La Tech? You know what forget it you're right lol!

Your point is well taken. Our respective posts highlight how narrow the difference between the penthouse and the outhouse can be. The point I want to stress is that most of the time you are somewhere in between and being a top 20 program and a ranked BCS team is not all bad. A decade ago we would have given a coach a lifetime contract for bringing us to this level four out of five years. I am not excusing the gaffes last Saturday, but we have to keep the big picture in mind.

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