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re: Put together your schools most explosive offense
Posted by Scoob on 4/18/26 at 6:16 am to SidewalkTiger
quote:Green has a higher ceiling, but has had some drops. An underrated part of 2019 was how few drops there were, hardly any drive-killing drops.
Imagine substituting TreyDez for Thaddeus Moss
Honestly, I know a lot of people will want an alltime allstar team, but I wouldn't change 2019 LSU's offense at all. Faulk or Fournette may alter the playcalls, you might want to run it more. Guys like Odell Beckham Jr or Malik Nabers are great but aren't a stepdown from Chase and Jefferson. We've seen better individual linemen but that unit meshed so well... and better blocking might alter the urgency Burrow had when he dropped back. He knew he had a limited time, so he looked for decisive shots.
You ask for an explosive offense, you want everything clicking even more than elite talent at every spot. 2019, everything clicked.
Now, give me some alltime defenders, and let's make it a perfect team.
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re: Put together your schools most explosive offense
Posted by Scoob on 4/17/26 at 10:41 pm to SidewalkTiger
quote:I don't think Daniels would be as dead-on accurate as Burrow was that year, and I don't think he'd push the ball deep as often. That's not an insult or taking away anything from Daniels, he was great... but Burrow had a generational season.
2019 LSU
Wonder if they'd be better or worse with JD5? There's an interesting question.
About the only change I'd think about, is if you want to put Guice instead of Clyde. Little bit bigger back, with about equal moves. But I don't think so, that team was damn near perfect offensively.
quote:I'll say this, I do have a "Go to Hell Ole Miss" pin somewhere, that I got in the early 80's.
I hear you say it, but I know you don't mean it. It's fine.
I also have a "Tuck Fulane" pin and a "Piss on Nebraska" pin, same era.
quote:Good for you :cheers:quote:
As a long time LSU fan,...
Not really. LSU looks at Ole Miss something along the lines of Tulane. They hate us and we hate losing to them, but they never beat us enough to merit serious respect.
I know, same can be said for LSU-Bama.
LSU tends to view Auburn, Florida, and to a lesser extent UGA as fiercely competitive, equal matchups, but the hate isn't there.
So in a nutshell, that's why LSU doesn't really have a rival. Teams that hate us dont win enough, and we dont beat the teams we hate enough.
Horrendous take. I'm from LA. I've been around it all my life. Friends with some of the top donors at LSU.
LSU doesn't care about Ole Miss, and hasn't for a few decades now. The only ones that have a burning passion about that game are older than me, and I'm not far from 60. LSU wants to win the SEC, something Ole Miss hasn't done in forever. And for the past 20+ years, LSU wants to win the SEC and win the national title.
Alabama, Auburn and Florida have been the big games that everyone circles in the preseason, because those games are against someone standing in our way to those titles. UGA, because that's often who'd we face in Atlanta.
We expect to beat teams like Ole Miss, Miss State, Vandy, etc.
re: Will Wade's honeymoon at LSU appears to be over
Posted by Scoob on 4/16/26 at 10:53 pm to ClientNumber9
quote:So, clearly not an LSU fan. Noted.
Yep. Honestly, he's not that good of a coach. This board's obsession with him is nuts. He'll be gone in 3 seasons and it'll be fun watching the rant blame everyone but WW for the failed results.
And before you try to type a response, there's no fricking way a real fan would say "it'll be fun" when predicting a coach will fail.
I thought hiring Orgeron was a mistake, I thought he was an idiot who couldn't maintain a program longterm. Every day he was here, I hoped I was wrong about that, and that he could build us back into a perennial national power again.
quote:As a long time LSU fan,...
You're talking about a 15 year window not the totality of football. If totality, it's Ole Miss by a mile.
Not really. LSU looks at Ole Miss something along the lines of Tulane. They hate us and we hate losing to them, but they never beat us enough to merit serious respect.
I know, same can be said for LSU-Bama.
LSU tends to view Auburn, Florida, and to a lesser extent UGA as fiercely competitive, equal matchups, but the hate isn't there.
So in a nutshell, that's why LSU doesn't really have a rival. Teams that hate us dont win enough, and we dont beat the teams we hate enough.
re: TIL former LSU WR Malachi Dupre co-owns 2, soon to be 3 Japanese restaurants
Posted by Scoob on 4/16/26 at 1:41 pm to DeafVallyBatnR
quote:quote:
Dupre always got a lot of grief for not living up to his hype. A large part of that was coming to LSU during the Miles era where he got little development
1. He left early
2 he played at JC thats not much different than Miles offense.
LSU receivers under Les Miles, who got over 700 yds in a season (Dupre's best year was 698 yds):
Dwayne Bowe 990, 710
Buster Davis 836
Early Doucet 772
Brandon Lafell 929, 792
Terrence Tolliver 735
Rueben Randle 917
Odell Beckham Jr 1152, 713
Jarvis Landry 1193
Travin Dural 758
DJ Chark 874
This was with Miles' run-first offense.
And let's keep in mind that Dupre immediately followed Beckham and Landry, who were coming off amazing seasons.
Dupre was a 5 star, was considered the top WR in his class. Not just LSU, the whole class. He was supposed to be great, but was a bust. He chose to leave early for the draft, where he went in the 7th rd and never caught a pass in the NFL.
re: Kelly seems to have a new gig
Posted by Scoob on 4/15/26 at 9:49 pm to BrohemAlem11
quote:To be fair, none of those guys like Kiper etc are electric.
who in the hell saw any of his interviews and thought... this guy is ELECTRIC... we gotta get him on air
They simply jabber on about draft prospects, giving us highlights, measurements, or "the intangibles", and we then get excited about the guys we draft.
Like I said before- Kelly has a well-documented history as a high profile college coach. He's probably the highest profile guy who isn't currently running spring training, or already employed elsewhere. If you're, say, in Seattle, and Kelly gives you breakdowns of some SEC guys the Seahawks may draft, you probably pay a little more attention than if it were some generic reporter.
quote:
1. The Exorcist
16. Final Destination
8. Carrie
9. The Evil Dead 2
5. 28 Days Later
12. Saw
4. The Ring
13. Frailty
6. It Follows
11. insidious
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street
14. Don't Look Now
7. The VVitch
10. The Strangers
2. Psycho (1960)
15. The Exorcist 3
1. The Shining
16. A Quiet Place
8. Ready or Not
9. The Fly (1986)
5. Silence of the lambs
12. Rosemary's Baby
4. Event Horizon
13. The Grudge
6. Friday the 13th
11. Midsommar
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
14. Salem's Lot (1979)
7. The Wailing
10. Sinister
2 Poltergeist
15.Tremors
1. Jaws
16. IT (2017)
8. Pet Sematary
9. The Lost Boys
5. The Blair Witch Project
12. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
4. The Omen (1976)
13. Oculus
6. Fright Night
11. The Descent
3. Scream
14. The Menu
7. Hellraiser
10. Let the Right One In
2. The Thing
15. Dawn of the Dead
1. Halloween (1978)
16. The Conjuring
8. Candyman (1992)
9. Paranormal Activity
5. American Werewolf In London (1981)
12. In the Mouth of madness
4. Cabin in the Woods
13. The Changeling
6. Misery
11. Audition
3. Hereditary
14. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
7. Night of the Living Dead
10. The Birds
2. Alien
15. The Sixth Sense
Anyone successfully repad Dell Alienware 3080's?
Posted by Scoob on 4/15/26 at 3:13 pm
We have a couple of the Dell Alienware RTX 3080 (oem) GPUs, which are working ok but get hot. My son has tried to change pads, we get temps down but the vram stays hot (96-104).
First attempt: Arctic 1mm, with Noctua thermal paste. gpu temp 70's- low 80s, vram 100+ when gaming or furmark. 1440k
2nd attempt Arctic 1.5mm, vram dropped to 70's, but GPU was 80's-90s
3rd attempt Gelid 1mm, GPU back in the mid 70's, VRAM back into high 90's to 100+
Most recent is reseating pads, now using Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut paste, 75 for GPU, vram about 100.
Goal is to get GPU to stay low 70s, but VRAM down below 90.
I've seen some people say they can get things down, but we haven't yet.
2 platforms- a Dell Alienware Aurora R13 (yes, we know there's cooling issues with this case), and then a Corsair 4000D case with a Asus Z790 mb.
Temps in the non-alienware is running GPU low 70s, vram low 90s. He's swapped the GPUs back and forth, no significant difference between cards, both slightly cooler in the non Alienware.
fwiw, cpu's are both 12 gen with liquid cooler. The Corsair case has a i9 12900F which we pulled from the Alienware, with an EVGA 240 cooler, and it runs low-mid 40s. We put an i7 12700KF into the Alienware with the Alienware 120mm cryotech cooler, it gets as hot as 80.
Games would be stuff like Deadspace Remastered, or Helldivers 2, at 1440 on a 2k monitor. FPS tends to be 120ish, a bit lower with Helldivers. The i9 does run faster.
First attempt: Arctic 1mm, with Noctua thermal paste. gpu temp 70's- low 80s, vram 100+ when gaming or furmark. 1440k
2nd attempt Arctic 1.5mm, vram dropped to 70's, but GPU was 80's-90s
3rd attempt Gelid 1mm, GPU back in the mid 70's, VRAM back into high 90's to 100+
Most recent is reseating pads, now using Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut paste, 75 for GPU, vram about 100.
Goal is to get GPU to stay low 70s, but VRAM down below 90.
I've seen some people say they can get things down, but we haven't yet.
2 platforms- a Dell Alienware Aurora R13 (yes, we know there's cooling issues with this case), and then a Corsair 4000D case with a Asus Z790 mb.
Temps in the non-alienware is running GPU low 70s, vram low 90s. He's swapped the GPUs back and forth, no significant difference between cards, both slightly cooler in the non Alienware.
fwiw, cpu's are both 12 gen with liquid cooler. The Corsair case has a i9 12900F which we pulled from the Alienware, with an EVGA 240 cooler, and it runs low-mid 40s. We put an i7 12700KF into the Alienware with the Alienware 120mm cryotech cooler, it gets as hot as 80.
Games would be stuff like Deadspace Remastered, or Helldivers 2, at 1440 on a 2k monitor. FPS tends to be 120ish, a bit lower with Helldivers. The i9 does run faster.
re: Kelly seems to have a new gig
Posted by Scoob on 4/15/26 at 2:34 pm to OJsLifeCoach
quote:Nah...
Imagine thinking this is a guy you want to be consumer facing.
Swing and a frickin miss, CBS
He's a recent head coach at LSU, prior to that successful HC at Notre Dame. He checks the boxes for "perceived to be knowledgeable about college players"; honestly any NFL scout could do as much or more, but the casual football fan just wouldn't put as much weight as a Kelly, or other coach.
He tends to talk like he knows better than you do, and for something like this, that's actually a positive. CBS would WANT someone who sounds like an expert. If you challenge his knowledge, he can say "we won lots of games at LSU and Notre Dame (he did), and I just coached a Heisman winner a couple years ago".
If you take off the LSU "frick him" perspective, he's a good hire. I could see him arguing with Mel Kiper and such, saying "you never coached anyone, I have. I know the difference, you don't". Which would be funny TV :lol:
quote:I've got paperback LOTR and The Hobbit, and hardback LOTR, all from before the movies, still around. Paperback Silmarillion from then, too.quote:
I have The Hobbit and The Children of Hurin on my bed stand, but I agree. I tend to start reading Tolkien in fall, for some reason. Guess to parallel Frodo's journey.
The amount of nerd-level Tolkien stuff i have is ridiculous.
Hardback Silmarillion, Children of Hurin, Fall of Gondolin, Fall of Numenor.
On my Kindle, I have LOTR, The Hobbit, Silmarillion, the entire History of Middle Earth series, and Nature of Middle Earth (one of the benefits of having Amazon Prime; they run deals where things are 1.99, and I'd choose to have a slower delivery on something to get the $2 electric credit).
quote:I think what the OP means, can also be called self respect. It doesn't matter who you play for, I'd think you still want to perform well yourself. Like, my team might be losing, but I still want to make a play, get a hit, strike the batter out etc. If you're performing to move to the next level, then you need to show something individually.
How would you know about LSU pride if your new here and have one year left to play
re: Honeymoon is over…Baton Rouge Advocate turning on hiring practices of LSU Athletics.
Posted by Scoob on 4/14/26 at 8:41 pm to SoFla Tideroller
quote:I'm old...
Is the Advocate the Louisiana version of AL.com? I need to know to what degree to dismiss any drivel it puts out, if it is.
Yeah, the Advocate is the premier newspaper in Baton Rouge. I used to subscribe, and my parents used to before then.
I have a framed full front page from 2019 (really 2020), from when LSU with Joe Burrow won the national title. For those who like to do such things, the Advocate was the paper you'd do that with for LSU. The company at one time was owned by the Manships, ... LSU has the Manship School of Mass Communication (Journalism). The Manships also owned WBRZ, which at the time was the premier TV station. They bought the Times Picayune in New Orleans, too.
That 2020 paper was probably the last time I bought a newspaper, and I'm not sure how long before then, that I previously bought one. Newspapers are dead, sadly. I saw one in a gas station recently, glanced at it... much smaller paper dimensions, poorer quality paper. I get my news, like everyone else, online, and on the TV and radio.
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Why Must You Tell A Cop If You Have A Gun In The Car? Isn't A Search Warrant Required?
Whether a person has a gun or not should not be the business of anybody, including a cop, unless a crime has been committed
There's 'in theory" and there's the reality of it.
In theory, it's none of the cop's business.
In reality, if he's at your door looking in, you go to get your registration and proof of insurance and he sees a pistol, he's going to freak out. Being a cop is dangerous, and they're twitchy at times.
I knew a girl way back in high school (80's), she got pulled over. Cop asked her for something and she reached down the side of her seat by the door. She said that's where her purse was. He put a gun in her face and yelled for her to show hands, and get out of the vehicle.
Most cops probably don't actively want to be a dick *benefit of the doubt*, but NO cop wants to get shot during a traffic stop.
re: Was nebraska the juggernaut program when we play them in the sugar bowl in the 1980s?
Posted by Scoob on 4/13/26 at 8:55 pm to Domeskeller
quote:Yep. We needed Garry James, who was out with an injury. Dalton Hilliard rushed for 90+ yards, but we lacked the rotation to finish things off. James being there, I think we win that.
Closest LSU came was the first game - the 1983 Orange Bowl. LSU had a 17-7 lead in the third quarter.
quote:We shouldn't have been. I remember reading the pregame comparisons, at least one of those Sugars we had the advantage at RB, and a solid O Line. I remember a couple things from those games;
LSU was outmanned in the other two games in the Sugar Bowl.
Nebraska DT or DE spitting in the face of Erik Andolsek and getting him ejected when he retaliated.
And, watching a number of our guys puking on the sidelines during the game, suggesting they might have enjoyed the French Quarter instead of prepping for the game.
quote:Again, we're not just any baseball program, we're LSU.quote:
Agree. Vitello had Tennessee in contention every year. That’s my measuring stick.
Horrible take, totally not true and expectations for LSU Baseball are always high, reality it is impossible this age of transfers and NIL to dominate every year.
We are to baseball what Duke is to basketball.
For Duke basketball, an off season is 9 losses overall, maybe a 5th to 7th seed in the tourney. Any given year.
Translate to baseball, that's still a 2 seed in a regional. That should be our off year, on average we should host, and probably 50% of the time we should be a national seed (Top 8). We should NEVER be in danger of missing out entirely.
"We don't have the players"... we returned Curiel, Milam, and Stanfield. Jake Brown emerged as a premier batter. You have Arambide beginning to do the same thing mid-season.
Pitching, we seemed to be in a good place. Evans was in place to take the next step and become a starter, you have Cowan and Guidry, you have a number of highly rated prospects. You should be able to cobble together a decent rotation. Your stash of prospects (we've had multiple recruiting classes) should be able to handle midweek games; you should have multiple guys who can give you an inning.
quote:Things are rough this year, no doubt. But we're trying, which is more than a number of places are doing.
Is there a worse overall program this second in all sports? how bad can they be?
Football- Kelly wasn't awful, had us winning at 8-9 games a season, plus winning the (meaningless) bowl. That wasn't good enough, so we moved on and pulled Kiffin to improve things.
Basketball- has been stagnant since we fired Wade under NCAA pressure. Apparently we were the last major program to give a shite what the NCAA says, and it screwed us. We've now rehired Wade, hopefully he restores to where things were quickly.
Baseball- that's a bit befuddling, but since we've won national titles 2 of the past 3 years, it's not time to panic yet.
re: Baseball doesn’t need to win it all every year
Posted by Scoob on 4/12/26 at 10:59 pm to Godfather1
quote:OP stated in the title, he doesn't expect a natty every year. We shouldn't expect Omaha every year.
Our fans have been spoiled by 8 national championships in 35 years.
You know how difficult it is to win a NC? Difficult enough that WE are the only school evern close to having that amount of success in that span of time. The very nature of the game dictates that.
But- this is LSU baseball we're talking about. Equivalent roughly to Duke or UConn basketball. As you state, 8 national titles in 35 yrs. Lots of people consider baseball to be the 2nd sport here, ahead of men's basketball. We supposedly outmatch any other school in resources committed to baseball.
You SHOULD expect to be in a regional, and usually hosting it.
Again, the basketball comparison: a regional host is the same as being a top 4 seed in basketball. Not a One seed, not even cutting it off at 3. A 4 seed; the lowest 4 seed would be the 16th overall seed (which is the last regional host).
If we're going to puff out our chests and boast that we're the premier program in America, which lots of people have no problem doing, then the least you should EXPECT is to be in contention to host a regional every year.
This year, coming off a natty and returning a few guys from that team, we were ranked #2 early. For awhile we looked the part. Then for some reason the wheels fell off. We might get it back together, but it shouldn't be this damn much of a struggle.
I wonder if something internal happened, about the time we started losing midweek games.
quote:No
Do you ever worry about the apocalypse happening while you’re still alive?
If it happens, I'll have to try to make due as best I can. Not worrying about it until then.
quote:Why would it suck? Seriously- if civilization collapses, your money would be worthless, and so you wouldn't have anything to show for it. At least this way you get to enjoy that house for a little while.
mean, I guess I’ll be okay although it would suck to buy a house right before Armageddon
quote:probably so
Maybe I should have stopped at 2 margaritas.
re: Draft related - Any chance the JETS go QB at 2
Posted by Scoob on 4/11/26 at 10:37 am to saintsfan22
quote:quote:
would not have thought that Anthony Richardson or JJ McCarthy would be top 10 picks in the last few years
Richardson has elite physical tools and people tricked themselves into calling McCarthy a winner because Michigan won.
The crazy thing is that Minnesota had a healthy Cousins who had found his groove, and had just won a ton of games. I understand reaching on an iffy QB if you're Miami or Carolina, but the Vikings were good.
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