I'm okay with it. The higher ranked they are every preseason, the more disappointment they get to experience every year.
Don't want to inject USC into an LSU thread but that was tongue-in-cheek. 24 is not high by USC standards.
You've completly overlooked that Mark Richt coaches that team. Mark down 2 losses before the season even begins. Guaranteed.
It is when you go 7-6 and if you're coached by Lane Kiffin. 24 is not high but they will still manage to underachieve like always.
It's all because we lost a lost of defensive starters. Fortunately, and what a lot of people don't realize, LSU played a crap-ton of freshmen and sophomores last year - more than any other team in the country - to prepare for it. And most of them were just as good as the starters and had solid contributions. Now, THEY will be the starters and we will continue to be great. Seriously, is LSU's defense ever NOT good? On offense, I think a lot of talking heads are overlooking the fact that we got ourselves a REAL offensive coordinator over the off-season. He's the really real deal. We've always had the talent, but we've never had someone that knew what to do with it.
So true. The dawgs usually underperform early in the season, and then heat-up later on. I don't think they've ever been able to string together a solid season start-to-finish in the Richt era.
And what even more people fail to realize is that many of our veterans on D last year vastly underperformed. Tharold Simon was a liability at times, Reid was hobbled for much of the year, Sam took half of the plays off, and Mingo was very sporadic. These guys were nowhere near their 2011 form, so the dropoff won't be as dramatic as many are thinking.
Also of interest is the last time we lost "too much talent to replace". Of course I'm speaking of the 2006 draft class where we lost four first-rounders, then followed it with the "undefeated in regulation" season of 2007.
