I hate these BS games. And I am not ashamed or afraid to say it. Are we as good as we looked or did we just beat up the nerd with glasses on the playground? I know most of you love to see us run it up against ANYONE, but c'mon man, against piss ant teams? We should schedule only the best, home and home, TOWSON, UAB, and some school for the deaf and blind next year that defies the imagination, is insulting. You can hate Notre Dame all you want, but they generally walk the walk. We should make them look like pussies. (Yeah, they do play Navy and Navy sux, but they do so out of LOYALTY for some complicated deal because Navy somehow "saved" them back in antiquity) I am just not a BS kind of guy, and like it or not, big wins over weak sisters are BS. You can disagree, but you'd be wrong. And just because the TIDE does it, sure as hell does not make it right. Roll Tide, against Western Carolina RUSM???? Let the flaming begin!! Geaux Tigers, even in BS games!
Can't be done, be realistic. The good teams all want home-and-home arrangements or they don't want to play in Tiger Stadium at all. LSU must have at least 7 home games to pay all the bills. It is the same for all other top schools. We have to play some teams that are willing to come to Tiger Stadium for a big payout instead of a return trip to their stadium.
Every year we have to play everyone in the sec west. The unquestioned best division in the best conference in football. Within our division alone we will normally face a couple of top ten teams and couple more in the top 25. We also have to play the gators every year, another team that's almost always in the top ten. SEC West programs in general and LSU in particular have some of the most consistently difficult schedules in the country. I think one big OOC game and three baby seals is a great formula for success. We use the baby seals to build depth and recover from injury.
I''m pretty sure Bama didn't invent it, but I'm with you in substance. Anyone not for a 9 game conference schedule is a paranoid bed moisturizing fool. Lets hope that increased league play along with the new rules to our beauty contest next season will stiffen the resolve for all the girly-men hierarchy to man-up.
Me too and I used to criticize it; however, it's become the norm across conferences, moreso now than in the past. This, for the most part, is true. We can, however, see things that do/will transfer against stronger comp. We had a storm and lost cable but the highlights I saw, Mett was tremendously accurate. Landry's hands, Beckham's route's, break-away speed, etc. We may not go undefeated but we can beat ANY team in CFB. There's no team we can't play with. Addressed above. Really? If they walk the walk, why would they have a clause of priviledge in teh BCS contract that they once had until recently- might still, not sure.You realize they lost to South Florida in their opener year before last? That 42-14 pelting they took in the title game says all I need to know without mentioning the 41-14 beat down we put on them in the 2007 Sugar. When's the last time they beat an SEC team anyway? There's a reason you don't see SEC teams on their regular season schedules.
The good news is that the future playoff selection committee WILL be looking at strength of schedule. Note also that despite UAB and Kent State on our schedule, LSU still has something like the 8th toughest schedule in the nation.
Sure, they get to play the #1 team in the nation, again. The first time one of these perennial winning big boy teams gets left out of the rotation, because of SOS, adjustments in schedule will be made regardless of any revenue advantages for extra home games. The millions alone these teams are paying to coaching staffs, facility upgrades, recruiting, etc. tells anyone willing to learn from history, they ALL want to win the ultimate prize, NOW.
Notre Dame schedules some great teams each year but there is a reason that they are ending their series vs Michigan. They are going to keep 3 games each year vs mediocre programs such as the military academies with teams such as Wake Forest, Duke, etc. thrown in. And they don't have the money issues like an lsu has since they have their own network. Using the Irish as the example on this situation just doesn't work. I would also like to add that running a big time AD without any state money is very hard to do and we could not do it without a couple of these games each year unless someone would want to subsidize the amount lsu would lose by not playing teams like uab.
