re: Bama fans' fear level (of LSU): scale it from 1-10

Actually, after thinking about it. I'm going to move it down from 7 to 5. The game was close last year. However, these are the reasons I'm moving it down from 7 to 5.

*NOTE: Every football season is different and every season someone is dinged up. But everyone was fricked up on our team, last year.


1.) Julio Jones had a broken hand that he suffered in the South Carolina game.

2.) Mark Ingram was never 100% in 2010 due to a knee injury, in which he missed the first 3 games of the season.

3.) Trent Richardson had a torn abdominal muscle. he tore his MCL in the LSU game.

4.) Greg McElroy was coming off a concussion if I'm not mistaking.

5.) Marcel Dareus had a lingering ankle/foot issue that plagued him during the whole season.

6.) Courtney Upshaw didn't play as much last year because of an ankle injury.

7.) Dont'a Hightower was recovering from a MCL/ACL tear in 09. He wasn't his same self last year.

8.) DeQuan Menzie was coming off a torn achilles tendon in April. He was never 100% in '10.

9.) 'Bama had what 8 first time starters on defense ?

10.) The game was in Baton Rouge.