Priams Pride

No takeaways? Please. I saw a mid-air strip and a blocked field goal that definitely count as takeaways. Not to mention the impressive coverage that Florida had all night. I wish LSU's secondary would play like that.

Do you realize what you are arguing? I'll show you:

1) Our offense is not explosive (premise, empirical)
2) Our offense is upper-classmen heavy (premise, fact)
3) It is the seniors who are causing our offense not to be explosive (from 1 and 2)
4) Our offense will be explosive if we use more freshmen (from 4)

This is just a pathetic argument. A team is very lucky to have two true freshmen who contribute significantly, but you think we'll have 5 or 6? That's just crazy talk. If our offense is explosive, it will be because the QBs have improved over the off-season.

Rahim Alem, for sure. He is very smart, and I think that fact has made a huge contribution to his play already.

On a side note, Alem is taking a 3000 PHIL class on German Existentialism. As a philosophy major, I can tell you that that class would be very hard for a non-major. I know the TA for the existentialism class, and apparently Alem is doing well in the class. I was very pleased to know that there are such intelligent players on the team.

I'll defend you, LSUDonkeyKong.

This thread is a perfect example of the sort of blind anger that is ruining the moral fabric of our country. More specifically, you people have such an idiosyncratic idea of what it means to be a fan that you are outraged by someone who simply has a different notion. These kinds of reactions are moral reactions, don't you people see that? He has done nothing morally wrong! Why do you call someone stupid simply for recognizing how often the Saints ruin his mood?

Frankly, this past game has made me admit what I always knew: being a Saints fan is like being in an abusive relationship. For some people, there is a limit to the emotional beatings we take before ending the relationship. Sure, some fans are in love with the team and will never leave no matter how horrible it makes their lives. Love, however, is a two-way relationship, so why do the Saints so rarely give us anything back?

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College football has changed dramatically as far as crowning a champion. Gone are the days of a #1 undefeated team playing in the Rose Bowl while the #2 undefeated team plays in the Orange. Only to have people VOTE to determine which one is actually the champion. And it took alot to make things better. We may bitch at the system right now (no actual playoff) but it is a million times better than it was.

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I understand all this. That's not the issue. All of us watch and read the sports media, and the AP is their poll. What's more important is that, although people may tear into the media and call them idiots, it is their job to know about college football. They are supposed to be the most expert of the experts (and most are ex-coaches and/or ex-players). Whether or not they really are experts is difficult to quantify, but that's neither here nor there. The AP and the BCS are both independent entities, and, as I said, the only reason either is relevant is that people believe them to be. Well, there are a great number of people (for better or for worse) who respect the opinions of the top sportswriters. Frankly, I respect their opinions also. After all, they watch a heck of alot more games than I have time to watch. That is what makes the AP relevant. Is it more relevant than the BCS? No. I never claimed it was. But it is the absolute most relevant non-BCS ranking, so much so that I think it is (to some degree) important to acquire both #1 rankings.

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By the way, welcome to the rant, but your first post sucked.

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This is downright insulting, despite your emoticon. I know that I am making a good point, and the fact that you will neither take me seriously nor read my post charitably is unfortunate. I agree with you that the BCS is the more important of the two, but that does not make the AP irrelevant.

Also, Nuts4LSU,

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All polls are, and most computer rankings systems are, too. Unfortunately, all parties involved have decided to use polls and computer rankings to choose the NC game participants.

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That's all well and good for them. But this still does not make the AP irrelevant. It only means that it is a secondary goal.

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Only to those remaining football fans who are stupid enough to give credence to the opinions of sportswriters.

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So who should I listen to? I can't watch even close to the number of games that they watch, and I don't have near the amount of football experience that they do. So who should I listen to? You? Maybe you think that I should come to my own conclusions as to who is the best team. And I do, but that decision involves the opinions of others.

The very fact that the AP is the media's poll means that it will never be irrelevant. They are the ones whose opinions get national coverage, and they won't let their opinions be irrelevant. I agree that it's absurd and unfortunate that they won't agree to the BCS rules. Nevertheless, if LSU doesn't win a crystal ball, I sure as heck will be happy with an AP#1 as a consolation prize. I don't blame the USC fans one bit in that respect.