1. it's never "good" for a team to have a game like this. it merely reveals shortcomings that better teams will exploit. 2. ohio......i mean, c'mon.......ohio?????????? in your house????? 3. you shouldn't be insulted when your team is questioned by its efforts when those efforts are subpar against a decidedly weaker opponent at your home stadium. 4. of course they were looking past ohio but that looked like pretty evenly matched teams for the most part. 5. will osu lay better against usc? sure....but it won't matter
Had LSU looked that bad against ULL the week before Auburn or Florida or Georgia, I'd be worried and I'd admit I was worried. I'm surprised by your response to this. We're all homers. But I didn't get the impression you were on that extreme of the homer spectrum.
LSU's performance against Tulane concerned me a great deal the week before the Florida game last year. And with good reason. As was pointed out a minute ago, it revealed some chinks in our armor--that were exploited.
With all due respect to the Buckeye fans on this forum, I continue to be unimpressed with OSU. Why anyone would rank them in the Top 10 is beyond me.
I was insulted not that the team was questioned, but that someone was telling me that i secretly don't believe in my team. if that makes me a crazy homer, so be it. As I pointed out earlier, I'm not saying I wasn't furious over the way that we played. That also doesn't mean that I think the sky is falling, and I see no reason that I should go into panic mode. scUM losing to app state at the beginning of the year didn't stop them from beating UF in their bowl game. Does that mean that App St. > Florida? I think LSU handled them pretty easily, so does that mean that LSU > Florida (by the way, I think it does I agree that sometimes these games reveal chinks in the armor. In this case, a combination of boredom and uninspired play in the trenches. Our playbook was ridiculously vanilla, and though I don't agree with that, Tress doesn't want to show anything, and it showed. We should never be bored or uninspired on the field. EVER, FOR ANY REASON! This has been our achilles heel the last few years, and unless that gets fixed, I agree we have a lot of things to be concerned about. My belief is that they will work it out, and that a reminder the week before a huge game will hopefully help to focus them (obviously i'd have preferred a trip to the woodshed, but you take out of things what you can right?) If that's the reason you guys wanna keep working on me about this, b/c I have faith that my team and coach will get it together, I'll have to admit I'm confused. I'm not saying there aren't things to work on, but I'm not panicking, period, sorry to dissapoint.
Personally, I think USC is going to easily handle OSU this weekend. When you go position by position through the lineup, I can't see one where OSU has a clear advantage, except for possibly on the offensive line. USC has a better QB, better WRs, better RBs (but Beanie Wells is still a beast, assuming he plays), better linebackers and a better secondary. I don't know enough about the DL to make a good judgement. USC has a clear advantage in speed at every level and they also have a clear advantage in coaching. If Beanie plays, OSU will be able to keep it somewhat close if they can run the ball, control the clock, and keep the USC offense on the sideline. If Beanie doesn't play, USC wins by 30.
Now, see, I realize that everyone believes that Tressel is a coaching genius (and of course, that we're stuck with that "dummy" Les Miles), but I think the boring, uninspired Achilles heel of OSU is a direct correlation to Tressel's personality (or lack, thereof.) LSU's teams under Les Miles play with reckless abandon, much like their coach's personality exudes.
Les Miles is a great coach, and you're lucky to have him. Tressel is also a great coach, and I feel lucky to have him. That said, he's often stubborn in sticking to a gameplan he thinks should work, sometimes refusing to make the necessary adjustments. His calm and patience rubs off on the players, obviously, and I don't think that's a bad thing. Jim Heacock, our DC, is the one who most often stirs the ire of some buckeye fans, particularly me, for insisting on playing cover 2 when we sometimes need to blitz a bit more when the front four aren't getting pressure. if you wanna take pot shots at our coach and our team, I'm done addressing that kind of cheap talk. If you wanna talk football, let me know and i'm in.
Sorry. I'm actually not trying to take pot shots at your team and coach. That is just the way that I see it from the outside looking in.
