The312

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After driving to Miss St. or 14 hours, to Ole miss for 13 hours, waking up every Friday morning at 5 a.m. to get an RV spot and then up again on sat. morning to tailgate and attend all the home games before FURMAN, I figured I needed a weekend off. Because I am sure that everyone on this board that is bitching about me not showing up has done the same correct.

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You get a pass. However, make no mistake, most of the absentee fans are nothing like you. They're just lazy or disinterested and deserve a slap in the face with a penis.

I usually respect what is written on ATVS, but frankly that article is neither insighful nor thoughtful. It was merely a repitition of bromides and amounted to same old tedius lecture admonishing LSU fanatics to stop being so gosh-darn serious about LSU football. It's just a game, a hobby, and so on.

I find it particularly ironic that the admonition comes from someone who regularly writes lengthy disquisitions about LSU football on a blog devoted almost exclusively to that topic.

Worst of all, the post fails to lucidly address the real cause of the fans' unrest: predictability. Miles is what he is. We can debate which modifier to append to that state (mediocre, good, great, or something more nuanced), but the state appears fixed. When Miles had to be restrained from calling a post-turnover timeout in 2005, one might hope that it was the product of a new coach's momentary excitement. But when he continues to botch obvious timeouts eight years later, one can safely assume it's a permament flaw. When LSU came out unprepared for Kentucky in 2007, one could still reasonably argue it was an aberration. When playing down to lesser opponents becomes an almost annual occurence, hope begins to sour into delusion. And so on. Miles is in stasis as a coach. He doesn't appear to be improving. That makes LSU football predictable, which in turn breeds fatigue, indifference, and -- yes -- anger.

As I said long ago, as an LSU fan who wants to win more national championships, one can only hope that Miles somehow improves and allows us to become ascendant in the SEC West. Such a result appears to be in jeopardy. Naturally, people are disappointed and angry. When the outcome of the season appears to be a fait accompli, the entire exercise becomes less interesting and more frustrating.

All of this being said, I'll still follow the team through thick and thin, I'll still faithfully buy my season tickets, and travel to away games, and wear my colors, and tout LSU to all comers, and express my passion. But you'll have to excuse me if I get upset when we throw away a chance at the SEC title by playing piss-poor football against Ole Miss back-up scrubs. If you don't get angry when we lose, you can't claim jubilation when we win.

As I've been saying since the Ole Miss loss, I suspect we'll play our best football against Bama.

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some perspective on why the 2011 Defense should go down as one of the best ever at LSU and why it will also be very difficult to emulate.

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All of the evidence is not yet in, but when all is said and done, I think we will look back and conclude that the 2011 LSU squad was more talented than the 2011 Bama squad, making the NCG result even more of an abomination. I'll allow careers to continue developing before I make a definitive statement.

Our fans are lazy pieces of shite. There is little else to be said on the subject.

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Freshman on defense

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Setting aside the Dline for a moment, I have noticed that T White has been beaten in coverage consistently, and sometimes quite badly, since entering the starting lineup. I hope he remains confident and benefits from this early exposure.

Jesus fricking christ. We really can't afford to lose blue chip talent right now. God damn it.

I wonder if he'll really be kicked off the team for one incident?

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But the main one is that so many posters want the most successful head coach in LSU football history fired. They want the DC that has been named national coach of the year fired and they seem to think that anyone not of the same opinion is an outright "Miles apologist".

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Yeah, um, identifying obvious coaching errors and deficiencies is not tantamount to calling for someone to be "fired." The defense has been suspect since Bama 2012. Chavis deserves to be criticized. The team was flat and unfocused on Saturday night. Ensuring that doesn't happen falls within Miles' bailiwick. He admitted as much. And the botched timeout was inexcusably stupid. Sorry.

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Saban's last year he was 8-5. We were trending down.

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What?

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How the season WILL play out...

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Nah. Driven by shame, LSU will play inspired football on November 9 and beat the Tide.