Personally, I want it all. I want the nice girl who's a bad girl in the bedroom. :hihi: But if I have to choose, I have to honestly say I long for the blow out. I guess that makes me a dirty boy. :grin:
I agree, Bandit. The difference between CUM and The Hat is not passion, its mindset and approach to the entire 60 minutes of football. Miles is taking each game as it comes, prepares his team to win and is content with any margin of victory, so long as he believes the team has performed to the best of its ability. While Miles wants to win championships, he takes the approach that the bigger picture is out of his hands; if he wins games, championships take care of themselves. Meyer, on the other hand, was thinking about the national championship before the season started. He knows (even if he hadn't been the pre-season number one) that the way to get to the national championship is to pound every opponent into the ground, ensuring that even the poll voters who vote based on nothing but the final score will be impressed. So, as another poster wrote, Meyer probably does hang 50 on Vandy (and Washington if he could) with our players, because that's what his mindset tells him he has to do. On the original question of the thread: I think looking at the entire history of both programs, LSU is ahead. In the last 20 years (call it from the time Spurrier took over at UF), Florida has been ahead, though we've begun to close the gap again since '03.
thats where your misunderstanding lies. Les is working with a young and inexperienced quarterback whose season began on the road in 2 time zones over. so of course any coach with half a brain is going to play conservatively allowing the kid your entire season depends on to get comfortable. and play within himself. anything else is asinine. given washington showed to be more than we hoped, you get out of there with a win and smile as a bunch of new players and coaches get acclimated. then you have a decent conference foe in vandi come to town. we run lots of 5 wideouts but the rain became a factor. we also ran shep a few times and showed a lot of different sets. JJ stayed within himself again and got out of there with a win. wasnt pretty but the gameplan is still in place. this is a team inexperienced at key positions (qb, o-line) where you first build confidence or risk ruining it. les learning from last year by what happened to Lee should be commended and not be viewed as a negative. id be killing him if he was having Lee throw downfield all game just to pad stats and run up the score instead of first learning how to run the offense. LSU isnt holding back much because they are trying to be secretive. they are preparing this team for the long haul to peak when it counts. Beating lesser teams by more points now isnt going to do anything if the fundamentals arent established first. thats what happens in the big-12 then you get rolled at the end of the season. Les understands this and is taking it one step at a time. And personally, its more rewarding when you see teams like this develop throughout the season and compete for it at the end. Winning by 50 every game building false hope then faltering toward the end is much less rewarding for me. just enjoy the ride. thats what its all about.
