So, you think playing them with 12 (or is it 13 now?) fewer players, several who are impact players, isn't a reason for a strong win? Is their situation not a handicap? C'mon, I love LSU, but this would be a completely different game if both teams were playing their best players.
are you now karnak the all-seeing? what's your point? the tone of your posts indicate to me that you're setting up a self-fulfilling prophesy. tomorrow night are we to hear you bemoan the Tigers performance because they didn't win convincingly enough? just what should the margin of victory be?
Wow, you guys are hilarious. LSU should win convincingly, but considering it's the first game of the season, I'm not expecting anything spectacular. However, to think that we will get the same performance from UNC that we would have if they were playing their 12 suspended players is a joke. Just admit, this is playing out in LSU's favor. You are reading things into my post because you have a lack of objectivity. I've said nothing derogatory about the Tigers. I've only highlighted that UNC's 12 losses hurts UNC and makes it much, much easier for LSU than it would have been if UNC's impact players were playing. Imagine if Peterson, Sheppard, Shepard, Nevis, Eugene, etc weren't playing for LSU. It would be a different game. You don't have to be Karnak to see that, you just have to remove your head from your arse.
so what should the margin of victory be???? simple question. i want to be prepared for the inevitable and would like to know the over/under in advance. seems to me you've got "talking head syndrome". yeah, it's gotta suck to be north carolina right now but i'm thinking they'll show up to play the game....just like utah in the sugar bowl, or boise in the fiesta, or the giants in the super bowl, etc, etc, etc... i don't know if you ever played the game or not but my experience has been that the guys on the other side of the line are dying to take a chunk out of your a$$, all american or not. hope you remembet to pull it out in time for the game....:grin:
Here's another way to look at this. UNC, with 12 players out, is realy now more of a mid-level ACC team, rather than a top 2 or 3 (in the conference) ACC team. That sounds like, say, Wake Forest, for argument's sake. If LSU were to beat Wake Forest 28-17 in the opening game of the season this year, am I supposed to be disappointed? Of course it's a different UNC team. There is no question about that. The real question is - does UNC get a point spread in real life, and do you consider it a loss if LSU doesn't beat them by XX points tonight? Personally, while I'd love to see an easy win - I'll take a win. If Jordan Jefferson or the OL don't play well, then I'll be worried about a couple games on the horizon - but that's different than denegrating a win because the other team, as it turns out, is not as good as they were billed to be. (and having 12 players out because the team broke some rules is saying that team is not as good as they were billed to be)
