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re: Why is 2006 LSU football so romanticized and overvalued?
Posted on 5/17/22 at 7:29 am to cbree88
Posted on 5/17/22 at 7:29 am to cbree88
Why are you so bothered. This is an LSU board and opinion are just that, opinions.
The 2006 LSU team was a good team but had weaknesses like most teams do. So?
LSU won the National Championship in 2007 and that team had weakness too. Overcoming your weaknesses and having success is what Sports is all about.
The 2006 LSU team was a good team but had weaknesses like most teams do. So?
LSU won the National Championship in 2007 and that team had weakness too. Overcoming your weaknesses and having success is what Sports is all about.
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Posted on 5/17/22 at 7:30 am to siliconvalleytiger
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People keep talking about bad game planning by Miles but there was no chance of winning that game. Every viable drive was torpedoed by bad calls and blatant cheating. Tommy Tuberville at his best
It was awful officiating. Still, football in that era was a lot more I-formation and long developing routes. Pretty horrible to have a team with J.Russell, D.Bowe, E.Doucet, C.Davis plus that receiving TE Dickson and Hester/Scott/Williams at RB.......and only score 3pts. Classic Jimbo bubble screen and half-back dive playbook.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 7:46 am to Fat Bastard
Replay officials daughter was an auburn athlete at the time
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:03 am to cbree88
Nah OP, you're definitely wrong. That 2006 LSU team was a juggernaut of a football team. The problem was so was everyone else that year. The mid-2000's was some damned good football all around and the SEC proved to be the beast it was believed to be with good NC quality teams cutting each other out of the championship picture every week. Wasn't nearly as top heavy as it had become once Saban established his culture at Alabama.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:11 am to Gravitiger
Exactly. I read this and thought who says this?
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:21 am to SammyTiger
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A real LSU fan would have liked another crack at Florida and see it as a bit of a waste
Of a ton of talent.
I'll say this, we were the best team in the nation by a pretty decent margin after Florida.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:28 am to cbree88
Maybe because we were literally a couple of bad calls and breaks away from being unbeaten and in Atlanta...
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:42 am to iBack8569
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Nah OP, you're definitely wrong. That 2006 LSU team was a juggernaut of a football team. The problem was so was everyone else that year. The mid-2000's was some damned good football all around and the SEC proved to be the beast it was believed to be with good NC quality teams cutting each other out of the championship picture every week. Wasn't nearly as top heavy as it had become once Saban established his culture at Alabama.
I think the thing that makes 2006 so memorable is because I feel that we left a NC on the field. If we didn't have that Buffon on the sidelines we could have overcame all the other stuff and still have won those games. The Auburn game in particular, we could have thrown for 600 yards if we wanted to and wiped the field with them, but that ARSE HAT!! Refused to throw the ball until we had too, and as an omen as to what was to come just continued to run the ball into a brick wall!
I still have nightmares about the idiotic QB sneak call that Russell fumbled on 1st and goal in the swamp, just hand it off we were blowing them off the line!
But regardless the Auburn game was the one. We would have rolled the Gators in the SECCG rematch and easily have skull drug TOSU in the Fiesta Bowl!
Posted on 5/17/22 at 8:49 am to cbree88
What year is it?
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:01 am to cbree88
Okay I will bite. This team had 6 eventual first round draft picks on it. The backbone of the 07 national championship team in Steltz, Flynn, Dorsey, Scott, Williams.
Notre Dame was far from average, and we did not just beat them, we curb stomped them. Quinn, Zibakowski, and Samarja were talented.
Bonus fact - Marcus Freeman was on that Notre Dame team.
Notre Dame was far from average, and we did not just beat them, we curb stomped them. Quinn, Zibakowski, and Samarja were talented.
Bonus fact - Marcus Freeman was on that Notre Dame team.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:07 am to cbree88
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The D-line had Marlon Favorite and Chase Pittman starting, who were solid but nothing special.
The D-line also had a guy named Glenn Dorsey starting. Craig Steltz and LaRon Landry were very good NFL-caliber players on the D also.
Overall, a damn strong football team that took a couple of tough losses on the road via bad coaching, bad refs and turnovers. By the end of the season, there weren't many teams better than us.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:08 am to cbree88
that team played 4 top 10 teams on the road.
They beat Arkansas who was on 10 game winning streak or something after losing their first game of the season to USC i believe.
They won at Tennessee.
They got cheated at Auburn, again, although i will say that we could have won that game even with the cheating if Jamarcus isnt' a dumbass and checks down to a RB a few times late in the game wasting precious time.
We got beat good at UF, but we shot ourselves in the foot and it changed the game. Right before halftime we drive down the field and Hester scores a TD, only for it to get called on the 1 inch line. Next play Jamarcus fumbles the snap like an idiot and we turn the ball over. If i remember correctly we held them to a punt, but then did nothign and had to punt to them and they drove the length of the field and scored before halftime, with the infamous jump pass. Then we fumbled the kickoff after halftime for a safety. game over b/c of two dumbass routine plays gone horribly wrong.
That team didn't win championship like 2007 did with 2 losses, but they were equally as good, if not better. They beat better teams, and lost to better teams than 2007.
They beat Arkansas who was on 10 game winning streak or something after losing their first game of the season to USC i believe.
They won at Tennessee.
They got cheated at Auburn, again, although i will say that we could have won that game even with the cheating if Jamarcus isnt' a dumbass and checks down to a RB a few times late in the game wasting precious time.
We got beat good at UF, but we shot ourselves in the foot and it changed the game. Right before halftime we drive down the field and Hester scores a TD, only for it to get called on the 1 inch line. Next play Jamarcus fumbles the snap like an idiot and we turn the ball over. If i remember correctly we held them to a punt, but then did nothign and had to punt to them and they drove the length of the field and scored before halftime, with the infamous jump pass. Then we fumbled the kickoff after halftime for a safety. game over b/c of two dumbass routine plays gone horribly wrong.
That team didn't win championship like 2007 did with 2 losses, but they were equally as good, if not better. They beat better teams, and lost to better teams than 2007.
This post was edited on 5/17/22 at 9:13 am
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:26 am to Silvermoon_WhereRU
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Classic Jimbo bubble screen and half-back dive playbook.
Can’t blame Jimbo for Auburn. That conservative bullshite gameplan had Les Miles written all over it. Jimbo even said later that LSU should’ve beaten Auburn by 3 TD’s.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:29 am to cbree88
Not sure what you are talking about,
but out of all this, Ali Highsmith was as good a college linebacker you can ask for.
but out of all this, Ali Highsmith was as good a college linebacker you can ask for.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:30 am to cbree88
Was that the year when LSU had come from behind win over Arizona State at start of season?
If so, I always saw that (game and season) as...
Well, we had to come from behind to beat Arizona State
vs
Amazing come from behind win
I am with OP
If so, I always saw that (game and season) as...
Well, we had to come from behind to beat Arizona State
vs
Amazing come from behind win
I am with OP
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:34 am to cbree88
I’ve really never heard anyone talk much about the 2006 team. Their roster had plenty of talent though and Ali Highsmith played in the league even though he wasn’t drafted.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:36 am to Turf Taint
I think the AZ St game was 05. Katrina happened, it was Leslie’s first season with the tiny headset, and the Tenn loss on a Monday night.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 9:42 am to Bring Da Wood
We did play Arizona in 06, though. I will always remember that game. I thought one of the Wildcats might die that night. Laron nearly killed the QB in the first quarter.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 10:08 am to cbree88
The wind got taken out of the 2006 sails early in the season at Auburn. LSU fans like to imagine that lead to deflated morale in Gainesville. Had Auburn game been called fairly, LSU might have won, and they might have shown a better performance in the Swamp.
Posted on 5/17/22 at 10:13 am to cbree88
i blame Les Miles
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