re: to those saying LSU will go 6-2 in conference

“ Rome wasn’t built in a day”

With all due respect to coach O, he doesn’t have to rebuild anything or build anything. And I’m not expecting him to build Rome, but is expecting him to not suffer our worst loss to Mississippi State in our history and expecting him not to lose to Sunbelt Troy asking too much???

If you expect LSU to be in the top 10 at the end of the year, knock yourself out. I hope you’re right. It’s about time we got back there.

Looky here! Another miserable LSU fan!

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and touting this as a sign that O has the team trending up...

whens the last time LSU faced 5 teams that are all likely replacing coaches?

mcelwain has already been fired, and ole miss, arky, UT, and aTm are almost certainly replacing coaches.

depending on how the season finishes out you may add gus to that list as well.

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This is the new standard in the SEC. You lose to O you get fired.


But really, who cares. Solid first season.

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That has zero relevance in the discussion I was having, but sure why not. We won the SEC with JL/JJ as QB, and had a retard as head coach that was just holding us back

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We had an X-factor that season though. Mathieu can be credited with the Oregon, Arkansas and Georgia wins on special teams plays. There is no one on this team that has anywhere close to that impact. Matthieu had 2 INTs, 6 FF, 4 return TDs. He averaged 15.6 yards per punt return. That defense forced 32 turnovers. So far the 2017 team has generated 11. That's really the only knock on Aranda. His defense doesn't get turnovers despite how well they play. In 2016 they got 16 total turnovers. That made a huge impact on the 2011 offense with short fields.

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Can't deny this would be an improvement in terms of SEC records.



Quality of teams is way down.

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Yeah, theres always a reason for self loathing fans to hate

thanks for the negativity

I love that this thread has gone on for 12 pages, so far. It shows the passion around LSU football. I was not happy with the O hire and especially the way our so-called AD handled the hire. I am still fuming about that. But...(here is my big but, and as Jerry Rubin said in "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", everybody's got a big but), But, I am an LSU fan, not an Ed Ogeron fan, so I will be pulling for O to do an outstanding job in the future. What choice do we have? Hope that he does terrible to confirm that he was a bad hire? I guess that is a choice if you think he is so bad that the sooner he fails, the sooner we get a good coach. But think of how that would set the program back for years. The best hope going forward is that O is not as bad of a hire than we think he is and that he will be the coach that so many fans at USC wanted to keep. Pull for O to be that coach and if it is proven that he isn't, then we doubters will be proven right. Thanks to our so-called AD (don't even like to mention his name) the buyout to be shed of O is prohibitive of his being replaced anytime soon. So I guess your outlook depends on if you are a half-full or half-empty glass kind of guy. I'm hoping against hope that O keeps recruiting well, keeps good coordinators and position coaches, keeps the players motivated, continues to show good game-management skills, and keeps building the program up in the future. In short, I hope I am wrong about Coach O. But.....I will keep supporting our young men who wear the purple and gold no matter who the coach is. My $.02 and I now relinquish the soapbox.

I wish I could give more than one upvote.

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Excuses..........

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Better than anything you can come up with in defense of O's terrible losses.

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I'll move on from Miles if the haters will at least give O a chance to turn this thing around.

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I gave O a chance. Then we lost to State and Troy and have the fanbase cheering for a 2 TD loss.

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Sorry...thats not a fair standard.

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We didn't hire someone to rebuild. The standard should absolutely be win now.