Also, for every writer that thinks LSU will be a disappointment, I'm sure you could find one that thinks LSU is a dark horse. Like Dennis Dodd: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...-any-team-stop-tides-roll-in-bcs-curtain-call
When you sit and think about it, you have writers that will actually pick based on some football knowledge. But you also have cowards who only make predictions based on what is statistically more likely. These are the writers that like to toot their own horn because they picked Boise State to win their conference the last 4 years in a row. The problem with picking for or against LSU is that since Les has been here, we let teams we should manhandle stick around alot of the time, and we also win games we very easily could have and for all intents and purposes should have lost. I would never put money on LSU.
"Disappointing" can only be true if the expectations are high. Ours aren't (at least from a national perspective), so we could never be "disappointing". That honor will go to aTm, with or without Womanziel.
It was both, really. And he was just off a bit in both cases. He never really lost his poise or displayed the kind of serious flaws we have seen from recent quarterbacks. Being that last season was actually his first year on the field at this level AND that he showed improvement as the season went along . . . I feel pretty good that his issues are coachable and he will certainly be a veteran instead of a rookie this time around. In any case, naming an entire team as being "Disappointing" just because one is disappointed with a single player is absurd.
Damn, Chaos, you beat me to it by 3 minutes. How can you call a team "disappointing" before the season begins, when you're starting them out with low expectations to begin with? In 2012 LSU started the season ranked 3rd, and ended up out of the top ten and giving a blaise performance in a mid-major bowl. That was "disappointing."
I agree, LaSalle....We were correctly picked out of the top 10 for those reasons. But sports coverage has become a bunch of Lou Holtz and Terry Bradshaw types.....no knowledge, no analysis, just half cocked opinions. ESPN should be embarrassed. There are no more Pete Finneys...you know, Journalists who are fluent in all sports that actually do research and write well. Instead they have a bunch of attention whores looking at ratings like Miley Cyrus.
They only care about their reputation, and its easy to go against LSU this season. Hell like some Tiger Fans out there alot of the media is just waiting for Miles to do something stupid or lose games so they can gin up the bullshit hot seat garbage they love to gin up. It's funny I bet coaches would last longer at their jobs if sports media just reported fact and not opinion, I would guess that every time a coach is on the hot seat it's because some so called journalist put him there.
The biggest thing that worried me about Mett last year is that he looked miserable, like being out there in front of 100,000 live fans (not to mention the millions watching on TV) was the last thing on earth he wanted to be doing...that he wished he wasn't there, and was instead far, far away. It reminds me of how this freshman pitcher for Texas looked on the mound when he had to face an absolutely loaded LSU line up late in the College World Series final after we had burned all their other pitchers I think he'll be more comfortable this season. QBing a major powerhouse team was a new thing to him last fall...but now that 8 months have gone by since then, he's going to be much more comfortable with the whole thing. Plus, having a veteran NFL OC who was OC of the Super Bowl Champs last year is also going to make Mett more confident and comfortable. Plus, when you're young, one year is a bigger fraction of your life than when you're older, so that extra year in Mett's life, at LSU, of practice and of developing chemistry with his teammates (esp receivers) is going to make him more confident and comfortable as well. And, on top of everything, he's a senior now, and everybody loves being a senior. Etc.
