Tiger Ugly

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Guess instead of fixing La problems, he wants to add CFB Commissioner to his list of job that does help the people of La

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Self promotion is without question his No. 1 priority. And he seems to have trouble reading situations properly and even when his ideas may have merit he seems to misapply them either in the improper context or time. It's uncanny how bad he is at it.

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I really wish the Pels would ditch Zion and move on.

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Me too, but his trade value is plummeting by the day.

Didn't he get a gig in the Trump admin he's been working so earnestly to get? Please stop auditioning then......college football definitely needs some fixing but I also definitely don't want Jeff writing the blueprint.

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Reece will play heavy minutes come sec play, so like stated,

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We have seen what teams are going to do with Thomas....they are going to gap him constantly, try to get physical with him and get the ball out of his hands early.

We have seen he and Reece both play together more in recent games, this may help with that but may compromise us on the other end of the court so it's a bit of a gamble.

Similar to Mackinnon, when he's hitting 3's he's a weapon on offense but he's a bit of a liability on the other end.

Will be interesting to see how we stack up once SEC play begins. We've played two teams that have SEC level talent and got crushed by one and showed very well against the other. I'm anxious to get SEC play started to see where we are with this team.

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But from 81 (I was a sophomore in hs) through the entire 80s, it was almost always magic during the tourney....

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There was actually a 4-year drought from 82-85 where there was no post season magic, only disappointment. We lost as favorites in the first round 4 straight years.

82-83 we lost at home in the NIT back to back to Tulane and UNO.

84 we lost in the first round as a favorite in the first round vs. Dayton by 8 and it really wasn't that close and the next year as a 4-seed to Navy by 25 as a big favorite to David Robinson and 4 midgets.

The 84-85 team IMHO was the deepest and most talented team LSU ever had.....Ice Reynolds, Redden, Blanton, Derrick Taylor, Nikita Wilson, Anthony Wilson, Oliver Brown, Jose Vargas, Zoran Jovanavich. the Shaq/CJ team had more top end talent but not the depth of quality talent like this one..

So after those 4 years Dale was starting to get a bit of heat for underachieving in the post season - then he made the final four in 86 and the elite 8 in 87 and got some mojo back.

He would make the NCAA tourney in the 6 years after that but never made it past the second round in any of the 6, losing in the first round 4 of those 6, and closed out the 80's with two more first round exits.

Dale did not make the post season NIT or NCAA his last 4 years at LSU.

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I'm hopeful for 12-6.

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Dude, I'd be over the moon if we go 12-6. I hope you are right.

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What has been most disappointing is how we've performed against many of our garbage opponents so far.

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I was encouraged by the SMU game. SMU likely a bubble team in talent and in fact, but we handled them and played about as good a game as I've seen a CMM team play against a decent opponent.

But the last two games did not seem to build on that. So, I'm back to cautious in regard to buying in on this team and on CMM.

I'd LOVE to see them prove me and all the doubters wrong.....I really would.

I think we can debate how good of an RB coach Frank is technically and such.

But any program would want Frank for all else he does, recruiting and motivating. He is not a divider, he is a uniter and that's not always very common among coaching staffs, but for me it's big.

I can't and won't wish him well, as he's going to Ole Piss, but I'm more than sure he'd have stayed had been asked. He'll land on his feet and be fine.

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Way back when the divide among many golf fans was between fans of Arnold Palmer and the younger upstart Jack Nicklaus.

It would have been very in keeping for some stodgy old guys in Augusta to refuse to get the new guy a properly fitted jacket

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No doubt, there was a lot of hard feelings about Jack clearly supplanting Arnold who was very popular with fans and I'm sure folks at Augusta where Arnold was very popular.

It was not until the 70's when Arnold had pretty much quit winning tournaments and Jack's talent was undeniable that fans started to accept Jack a bit....but I could see the old money August folks holding on to the hard feelings.

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we cant rule out that they were underfunded

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I can't disagree with this.....but, can we agree that CMM is/was complicit in that?

That when you coach at a school that does not value men's hoops in a relative sense as much as other sports - the head coach has a responsibility to raise money for and promote his program. HE HAS TO, it's not even debatable. And whatever CMM's strengths are, that definitely is not one and I don't think he has ever pretended it is or that it's something he is interested in ever doing.

So I would say when this is brought up in our discussions on this, and it often is - it IMHO needs to be qualified accordingly.

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Miles won a National Championship

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My Dad told me when I first became passionate as a youngster that the 1969 Tiger team was the best of his lifetime...this was in the 70's. I say that to say Miles won a national title with two losses, I would be interested to see if that 1969 team had the same system as in Les's Day if that team could have played for and won the title. In our only loss that year to Ole Miss, we could have kicked a FG to tie but Mac chose to go for the win instead he did not want the game to end in a tie. Would we have won that game in OT??

Fun to speculate.