re: West Virginia

hey charlie, look at your garbage schedule, you see any ranked teams? you see any perrennially powerhouse teams just having an off year? that's what we have to contend with six or seven times a year. your team plays one or three meaningful games a year and pads it stats.

as for them trying to make plays in open space, we appear to have excellent open field tackling and closing speed. where wv's skill players are usually making the catch and then making a move to slip for yac, it will be wv's players making the catch and immediately get hammered. i will say however that Geno Smith is looking better passing every game this year and i think our young secondary gets burnt a couple of times. hopefully, they won't be for long td's like in uNC game.

Yup, our schedule is garbage. Its garbage every year. I am just not sure that is overly relevant to next saturday's game.

Our schedule was garbage when we beat UGA and OU in BCS games in the past five years also. Point being that we hear this refrain from other conference's fans every time we play a good OOC opponent. So far, playing in the BE hasnt been a relevant factor. Our SOS hurts us more in rankings than in individual games.

LSU is legit, I am excited to come down, have been looking forward to it for about 6 months. Staying in NOLA thurs and fri then driving up to BR on saturday. Cant freakin wait!

I am not here guaranteeing a WVU victory or anything like that. I just believe that if both teams bring their A games it will be much closer than you think.

I do like that I have convinced you that our weak strength of schedule doesnt hurt us and that now you believe it will be an advantage for us.

We are not VT, there is a reason they are known as the cHokies. I seem to remember beating them 28-7 a few years back when we were unranked and they were #3 in the nation.

my boys were looking good!! gonna be a high scoring slug-fest.. W.V's offense is on fire......Tigers D better show up!--GO MOUNTAINEERS!!!!!

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Hint: We aren't Marshal

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ISWYDT.

I know what you were getting at. I am pretty sure y'all will compete Saturday. My point is you dont have to justify your team. WV is on our schedule because our program made a commitment to play better teams, as did yours. We know y'all have a good program and that's why we are excited to have y'all down. Thanks to teams like yours, LSU can say they have one of the toughest schedules in the country.

"But we wont come into TS with our tails tucked"...... we are definitely NOT sceered. Game On!

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Noel Devine ran for 131 yards (has had 100 yards every game this year).

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against navy, i'd have 120

against marshall, i'd have 135

against maryland, i'd have 140

We beat Auburn 34-17 at mountaineer field in 2008. They beat us 30-41 at Jordan Hare last year. I think we had 6 turnovers to their 1 in that game, no kidding.

No problem with not respecting us, no one respects us, but that never seems to keep us from winning. (See Jerm?)

Sorry if you dont believe we would have been a worthy opponent for OSU in 07, oklahoma may think otherwise since we beat them 48-28 in the Fiesta Bowl. Leading up to that game most talking heads said that OU was playing the best football in the country. (See Jerm? these arguments are being forced upon me) Also, UGA was not a coming out party, we played for the National Championship back in 88 and 93. Lost both for sure (Notre Dame and Florida), but we are not Boise State and new to the national scene, lol.

Geno is not a freshman, he is a sophomore. And he is the real deal. The concern for me is not Geno, its far and away our oline.

As with most games, I predict this one will come down to what happens in the trenches. If our Oline can continue to jel we have a good shot, but if the LSU Dline dominates it will be a very long evening for us.