re: Why is 2006 LSU football so romanticized and overvalued?

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He also ran a 5.0 at the combine as a LB, which led to him being undrafted.

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He was one hell of a college player, that team was undervalued if anything.

One of the best seasons of LSU football, and you think its overvalued.

If I remember correctly they had a TD called back right before half on a bs holding call against florida that completely shifted the momentum. The 7-3 auburn game was the bs pass interference call on doucet on 4th down, however I won’t make excuses for the offense. A Jamarcus russel, early doucet, buster davis, and Dwayne Bowe lead offense should never muster only 3 points no matter how good auburns D was. They beat #8 ranked tenn on the road and the win against arakansas is nothing to scoff at, Arkansas went to the sec championship that year

Then you have the absolute dismantling of Notre dame in the sugar bowl and Lee corso’s famous words when asked “who received the worst bowl draw?” And he answered “easily Notre dame, I wouldn’t want to play lsu if I was the indionapolis colts”

They were a fantastic team but for some reason for all the offensive fire power they had they struggled to find the endzone at times. I was only 16 back then so can’t remember if it was a Jamarcus issue or a jimbo issue

Oh and ali high smith was the absolute man. He had 20 tackles in that 07 loss to Arkansas and every one of them was an absolute collision on McFadden. By your argument Tim Tebow was “nothing special” because he didn’t translate to the nfl and I’ll take xenon and chevis jackson on the corners all day

I remember watching this game in Houston at my Aunts house because we were evacuated, and I remember listening to the Tenn game on a small radio because we did not have tv after the storm.

Aside from the obvious talent they had on this team we also got robbed a game that season. LSU should've been +1 and possibly in the championship game if they won Auburn. We all know the refs handed that game to AU.

So, was Tim Tebow not the second best college QB to ever lace them up. At minimum he's top 3. But he sucked in the pro's. Your argument doesn't hold water.

Les wasted more offensive talent than any coach I
remember.NS wins at least 2 NCs with what he left LM and
theres no way he loses 2 games a year with those rosters
from 2005-2007.
LM game plans were abortions of offensive football and
pelini sucked as DC.

That team could have and should have won the NC. That defense may have been the most intimidating in LSU football history.

Sitting in the stands during the Arizona game, you could literally feel the intimidation and fear exuding from the Arizona offense.

That season proved two things:

1) Les Miles’s absolute ceiling was losing two games even with NC-level talent.

2) You’re a perpetual shitposter.

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.

i agree. we were playing a top 10 sec team ON THE ROAD. when the refs kill 4 drives that were headed for scores that is ballgame. you are not getting anymore chances against that type of defense.

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shows that he wasn’t actually that great and that our defense was vulnerable.


By this logic Tebow wasn't that great at qb.

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this is one weird post/thread, surprising that's it's getting so much mileage