There's virtually no possible way the quarterback play could be worse. LSU almost certainly won't have the same terrible luck in the red zone as it did last season. And while the SEC promises to be an incredibly tight race season from a plethora of contenders, some teams have already thrown their best shot and still fell short. LSU was an extremely young team last season, and those growing pains should pay dividends this year.Īlabama is more vulnerable this season. Les Miles can, for the first time in four years, actually build off of the previous season. Now, it's our turn again.įor the first time since 2011, LSU did not experience near catastrophic offseason personnel losses. LSU left the door open for the rest of the conference these past two seasons, and they could not walk through.

So apparently, it falls to us to shows the rest of the SEC how it is done. If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself. We thought that if we had a rebuilding year or two, maybe one of the other super hyped SEC programs would actually do something to stop Bama's run of dominance. So this is our apology to every college football fan in America. State's four-year plan mostly paid off but now practically the whole team graduated. Other than that? Ole Miss is getting belly rubs for finally finishing above 500 in SEC play for the first time since expansion with a dominant 5-3 record. OK, Auburn had one amazing year wedged in between an average and a terrible one. LSU took a step back as seemingly every underclassman on the roster declared for the NFL draft the past few seasons. It is our job to stop the Red Menace, and if we're not going to do it, clearly no one else will. Now, Alabama has recently run away from the pack, but that's because LSU has let down the rest of the country. There are only two SEC West teams which have not had a losing season in conference play since expansion. Our failures are better than the rest of the West's successes. I'm not going to pretend that I don't think we should be contending for the SEC title every year. LSU was trading blows with Alabama as an equal, and we have slipped back to the pack. Look at the combined three-year record:įirst off, this isn't good enough. Since the SEC expanded to 14 teams, LSU is still the second best team in the SEC West. However, tales of LSU's demise have been greatly exaggerated. We do not believe in moral victories, we call them losses. There are no back pats for trying your best. We're the school that put #2 on our SEC championship rings because they didn't earn #1. LSU football is like James Harrison's kids.

There are even schools that pundits will try and convince you that ranking 122 nd in the nation in returning starts is somehow not going to result in utter disaster (Mississippi St). There are schools where an 8-5 season is ignored and is reason for a preseason top ten ranking (Auburn). Now, there are other schools where you get wildly praised for going 7-6 (Arkansas). We accomplish nothing by telling ourselves that the worst season of Les Miles' LSU tenure was a rousing success. We couldn't defend in 2013, and we couldn't score in 2014. LSU did not live up to its potential either year. The last two seasons have been a disappointment. I'm not in the business of lying to y'all. That means only the true believers get to enjoy what comes next. The proof is in the pudding, as LSU has fallen back to the middle of the conference. LSU has gone a catastrophic 9-7 in SEC play over the past two seasons, and even Mississippi St is boasting about its recent success. The boo birds are back, a veritable murder of crows crowing about how this time we mean it. He then gave it a tongue in cheek name: Delusional Optimism. One internet smart ass looked at the team's well-stocked roster due to recruiting success and a string of hard luck resulting in a deflated record, and he wrote a confident prediction of at least ten wins. The common refrain was that LSU was 8-8 in SEC play over the past two years, Miles was an incompetent boob, and the Decline is real.

Five years ago, LSU was coming off of two straight relatively disappointing seasons.

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