TigerGrad03

Here's another reality check.

Joe Burrow in his first 4 games with LSU
52/106 (49% completion)
3 td/0 int and 1 rushing td
731 yds

Sam in his first 4 games with LSU
74/116 (63.8% completion)
5 td/6 ints and 6 rushing tds
1,044 yds

Both QBs didn't get rolling with the team until the late summer/fall and played comparable schedules. Sam has to clean up the Ints, specifically tipped balls. Also, no, I am not saying Sam will be Burrow. The point is that stats within the first 4 games of playing on a new team don't dictate the level of player or success a QB can have.

I think it's a little disingenuous to rank Sam who has played a tougher schedule than most of the other SEC QBs against them in the stat category this early in the season.
For example, Russell at Bama has a higher completion % but has played ECU, UK, FSU, and S. Carolina. Stockton at UGA has played Tenn.St, WKU, Arky, and Oklahoma and against OU he was 14/25, 171yds 1 td/1 int

Let him get fully acclimated in the system and get the timing down with the WRs and then judge.

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Have anyone figured out LSU's RB rotation?

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Yes. RB1 is Jones. RB2,3,4 get decided based on how the others practice.

Berry doesn't play becasue he is learning how to block. He will not be able to play at the next level unless he can. He will have his moment to shine. If he keeps grinding and learning, he'll be an All-American before he leaves LSU.

11-1 or 10-2 looks much better to the CFP committee than 10-1 or 9-2

I hated listening to them call games. They weren't bad, but they had a boner for Bama and it was obvious on every game of theirs that they called. It got to the point, I would mute the CBS 2:30 game while it was on the TV. As Verne got older, he started saying things that didn't make sense, which is to be expected as people get older and the thoughts don't come out as clearly. I much prefer Herbie/Fowler, Tessitore/Palmer, or McDonough/McElroy.

Our biggest area of concern right now is interior OL. If that gets fixed, everything else falls into place.

Isn't she the chairman of the committee? She is the figurehead so it would make sense why she appears to be spearheading it

This is called getting the red arse.

Regardless of how this plays out, if I am LSU, I am putting feelers out to switch conferences. It's obvious that Birmingham likes certain schools and we are not in that list.

I heard he is injured currently, but there are talks happening :)

While I understand the fear. It would be incredibly stupid of LSU to not have some idea how the CFP will act before playing the players. Since ADs are part of the committee, would that make the committee which selects which NCAA teams get in the tourney an associate of the NCAA in the eyes of the court?

People always say that the CFP is "independent" of the NCAA and that may be from a governing standpoint, but that doesn't mean a punishment from the CFP to force LSU's hand wouldn't be looked at as the same as what the SEC was trying to do.

Lastly, the temperature on a couple 22 year old players getting to play will be much cooler come November when the actual CFP polls start coming out. In the end, the CFP is about making money from advertising and to leave out the sport's biggest villain would be stupid on their part. They would be better served putting us as a lower seed and making us travel up north to play in the snow or something like that. TV ratings through the roof as the nation hate watches us.

Nah.....CFB started to nose dive after Justin Fields whined about fake racism at UGA so he could transfer to Ohio St. and play right away. That started the transfer without sit situation we have now and then the NIL courtcase happened and all hell broke loose.

If they have ADs from NCAA member conferences then they will have a problem.