A genuine question for the unwavering Miles/Crowton supporters

Dang Red, I think I've made my point fairly clearly a number of times this thread. The dark ages of the early 90s were preceded by also-ran status. I never said LSU isn't one of the best programs in the history of college football, only that we struggled through mediocrity for quite a while before the dark ages, which I think is a key reason we finally had the dark ages. I think going back 30 years is very sufficient in establishing this. Going back to the 60s is well removed from the current era.

As a 30 something year old I've known three periods of LSU football; decent / also-ran, BAD, GOOD. Based on what I know, it looks like we're slipping back to decent / also-ran. If so, that isn't real good for our program. I'd rather struggle to attain excelence rather than wade around in mediocrity for quite a while.

 

But red, it all goes back to "what have you done for me lately?"

 

BAY0U BENGAL
If you're going to assume LSU will return to it's pre1970s form, should we also assume that Ole Miss will? It's a different world.

 

I'm just saying that it all goes back to "what have you done lately?" It's easy for some to write off those earlier teams from before the 60's.

 

BAY0U BENGAL
I'm not writing off our history, but the further from that history we travel the less relevent it is to the modern era. We used to pick at Bama for living on what they did under the Bear. Now we want to go back to the 60s to prove that we were nationally relevant before Saban got here? I'm proud of LSU's tradition, but I guess you're right - "What have you done for me lately," applies. Before Saban we had a span of 30 years when we weren't really a nationally relevant program.

red55
I remember being clobbered by the Canes in the freezing rain and losing big to FSU sometime in the late 80s early 90s and feeling like, "Yeah, we're good, but these guys play on a completely different level." I was a kid and just accepted that we were pretty good but that we weren't THAT good. It never occured to me that we'd ever be on that level and I was fairly content with where we were.

Now that I've seen us among the elite I can't see going back to the 20 years before the 90s when we were basically pretty good but never really elite. I feel us slipping, which is why I'm concerned.

Maybe as a fanbase we need a strong dose of humility so we won't expect to be among the best on a regular basis. I have to say, it seems we had a heartier fanbase back then. It seems we were less concerned with being the best in the nation and more happy just to win a game. Like Buddy Songy says (over and over), its hard to go back to beans after you've been eating steak.

 

CROW MUST GO!!! CROW MUST GO!!!! CROW MUST GO!!!!

the campaign has been started.

 

But that's just it. We were nowhere close to "good" in the early 90's when FSU slapped us around. The year the Canes beat us, we had a respectable team, one that won the SEC, in fact. But Miami was operating on a different level then than most other teams.

In short, no teams stay totally elite over a really long period of time. Unfortunately, it's more of a decade-by-decade kind of basis. Our previous decade was maybe as good as it gets, and with 2 NC's, we can't really sneeze at that.

Now, I hope we're going to return to elite, but when people were even complaining during NC years, most of the older members of the board cautioned that they might want to enjoy the good times, rather than b***h about them.