re: Who will admit O has exceeded expectations and is an upgrade from Les?

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It's adorable that you think this is an analogy that holds water.

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You're special. It's spot on.

What's your prediction for the offense next year? Better? Worse? Same?

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It's spot on

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What radar app are you using to predict the offense?

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What's your prediction for the offense next year? Better? Worse? Same?

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It needs to be better. But I don't pretend to know what the future holds, so I'm not going to say what I think it will be. I don't have access to your radar app.

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What radar app are you using to predict the offense?

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One of the most experienced squads in the country returning

Huge upgrades at RB

Implementation of spread concepts

QB who appears to be gelling with offense.

Why wouldn't anyone believe the offense would be improved?

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But I don't pretend to know what the future holds

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You would have to be a curmudgeon and a contrarian to not think the offense would be improved.

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Beating Bama tat home was incredibly lucky. The Reid INT could have easily gone the other way. Wing's punt hitting the camera wire and ending up going major distance was extremely lucky.

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I have to disagree with you here. I was at that game. Our defense won that game. Not incredible luck. Both teams got breaks here and there. LSU and Miles were not incredibly lucky that game.

And every Bama fan I talked to walking to the car afterward said they were outplayed, no mention of LSU luck winning.

And just for shits and giggles, how does a punt hitting a camera wire propel if farther? Not being a smart arse, but I would think science would say it slowed it down. This is the first I'm hearing of it propelling it further.

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Basically had 4 favored teams lose the last two weeks that were ranked over us

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This is not correct so let’s set the record straight. LSU was #1 before losing to Arkansas the last regular season game and after that we did fall to 7 in the BCS but we were 5 in the AP. Remember the BCS and computers only count what happened so far. We won the SEC West so did have another game against a ranked opponent. 2 of the teams ahead of us in the BCS Kansas and UGA did not win their division so they were done. After winning the SEC CG it was clear we’d move ahead of those 2. Kansas was behind us in the human polls already. Another team ahead of us was Va Tech who had the same record and did win their conference but we beat them by 41, so there’s no reason we should have been behind them to begin with obviously we were moving ahead of them That’s a worst case scenario of 4 after winning the SEC. Ohio St was done but at 11-1 and BIG Champs no way were passing them so that leaves 2 teams we needed to lose in order to get into the BCS CG, #1 Missouri was playing OU who had beaten them by 10 already and were favored in that game, so there was good chance they would lose which leaves WVU playing unranked 4-7 Pitt. That appeared to be the obstacle, they were heavy favorites of course so that required a massive upset along the lines of say Iowa St beating Oklahoma St, for us to get in.

2 loses was unprecedented but then again everyone had 2 loses that year going into to the bowls except Ohio St, Kansas and Hawaii and it was obvious LSU was better than Kansas and Hawaii I

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Record. Wins/losses Little things like that.

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So glad this was your reasoning...

In Les's last full year, he only had 3 losses. We've already established that losses are equal across years, so don't bothering arguing who they were to or by how much. So he's already equal to 0's best year.

In 2016, he was fired after going 2-2. But looking at how terrible the remaining schedule was, there is no rational argument you could make that Les wouldn't have finished with at least the same number of wins as interim 0 did. In fact, you could make a strong case that Les beats UF. So still equal there.

So that leaves us with 2014 which was disappointing, sure. But 2017 was equally disappointing even though it had one more win since 2 of the losses were unprecedented.

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Our defense won that game. Not incredible luck

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Agree

LSU wanted it more and made the plays when it mattered. A great win, no luck involved.

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So glad this was your reasoning...

In Les's last full year, he only had 3 losses.

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Coming off an 8-5 season, and continuing into 2016 he lost 5 of 9.

His record over that span was 19-10

So I'm glad I chose that criteria too

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Coming off an 8-5 season, and continuing into 2016 he lost 5 of 9.

His record over that span was 19-10

So I'm glad I chose that criteria too

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Yea, I wouldn't touch the rest of my post either if I was you. I'd hope no one reads it too.

ETA: And again, you try to cherry pick the very worst of Les to say 0 is better. I should certainly hope he is, since we fired Les. But even then, it's not a slam dunk that 0 is better than Les's worse, so what exactly is your point?

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We've already established that losses are equal across years, so don't bothering arguing who they were to or by how much.

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Do you believe SEC losses carry more weight than out of conference losses?