Maize&BlueTiger

Another coach was hired some years ago from a Big 10 school that had performed only decently, in order to try and resurrect a floundering SEC program with a rich history. As I recall, that worked out fairly well.

A coach can only do what the available talent permits him to do. Lighten up.

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Texas is slipping

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Has slipped

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USC is slipping

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Yep--until it hires an adult as a coack

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Michigan is slipping

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Disagree. On its way back.

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LSU is rising

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Already risen

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I just don't understand why we're supposed to be satisfied with mediocrity because we were awful 20 years ago.

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I think you made the case against your position with the use of that one word. You define LSU's performance over the last 5 years as "mediocrity"? If so, then there is no point in discussing if it's ok to criticise mediocrity. The argument is over whether LSU under Miles is mediocre. And while that is somewhat subjective, you definitely have the short end of the stick.

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the so-called "negatigers" were the fans that said "frick this shite" and stopped going to home games in the hallman era and forced joe dean's hand to fire him ... then the "negatigers" did the same to gerry dinardo after his brilliant replacements of carl reese and morris watts ... so, in essence, the "negtigers" were the ones that told the administration that they wanted better .. and on came nick saban ..

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The truth of this analysis doesn't mean that all critics are doing God's work all the time. Civil rights protesters in the 60's were a motivating force behind changes in the nation's laws regarding race discrimination. But we see the aging boomer generation that mounted those protests (my generation, as it happens) continuing to find issues to pick on not so much because they are truly significant issues in need of reformation, but because it's who they are to be protesters. I think there's a parallel here, with folks remembering how they changed bad into good at LSU thinking they should keep at it with the same vitriol, even when the good has become great.

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One of the things that jumped out at me was his use of the word "decadence" to describe the state of LSU football in the 90s.

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I agree that Warner is in over his head when he tries to write a piece in this style. However, what I don't agree with is that there is no value to sports writing as good literature in the right context. Not all sports writing must be done in accordance with the basic rules of structure taught in fundamental English composition classes, the purpose of which is to drag people from illiteracy into basic writing competence. If you can find them, go read some of Herbert Warren Wind's writing in "The New Yorker" on various major golf tournaments, the Masters in particular. It's priceless.

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Warner isn't writing a sports story. He's writing an editorial opinion piece--perhaps the last bastion of moderately erudite writing in what's left of the journalism profession.


Students in "The Paper Chase" were in law school at Harvard. They didn't write term papers, at least not in Kingsley's class.

Succinct enough for you?

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If he expects to (or has a want) end up in more desirable Bowl games he had better change his offensive mentality.

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Absolutely. To hell with all this "run, run, run" crap. Air it out on every down. Run Statue of Liberty plays,and double or triple reverses with a pass/lateral option. Block with 5 guys and put 5 in the pattern. Be Oregon. Just one thing--better join the PAC 12.