Makes me ill. Listening to some of you guys, you would think that we'll be lucky to win a single game this year. I for one choose to have faith, and be extremely optimistic about the season until I have a reason not to be optimistic. I'm done ranting now :grin:
I look for us to lose 2 games, but since we will probably be favored in all of them it would be hard to say which ones. It's just too hard in this era of parity to go undefeated. Just go and support the team no matter what happens and we'll be aight.
Got an example of a 1-10 prediction? Some fans are doom-and-gloomers and some folks only want to pump sunshine up our chutes. Most of us span the gap pretty effectively. It takes all kinds of people to make a nation of fans. It ain't just a cheerleading for LSU site. Don't let it make you ill. It's just off-season talk, amigo.
Assuming you define "extremely optimistic" as being 10-1 or better and a serious, serious contender for the national championship, I agree with you 110%. I never have bought into the "a new coach can't win big" line of reasoning. Les Miles can coach, his players have the skills and, barring some plain old bad luck, this team should win this year. A lot. :crystal:
As a matter of fact it seems that if a new coach is not going to be successful it happens after the first couple of years IMO.
The Florida/LSU comparison is kinda funny. FLorida has a new coach because their old one was essentialy fired for being a bad coach. LSU has a new coach because theirs was so good he left for the big leagues... What coach should be most set up for success? Miles... what coach is most dangerous to his new school? Miles.. because he is coaching another man's players... Too many times you see new coaches come in, have success, and everyone screams DYNASTY, then the program mysteriously drops off.. i'm not saying this is gonna happen.. I'm just saying this would be the worst case scenario...
