re: Bama in a much stronger roster position to start 2016

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Not sure, I was just saying I think we can match up talent wise with Bama in 2016, something no other teams in the conference, or the country for that matter, can really say. Now, will/can the LSU coaching staff utilize this talent?

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I think LSU is close to Alabama talent wise, but I'm not sold on their DL or LBs being at Top 3 nationally elite level. Their secondary, running backs and wide receivers certainly are. The OL is good, but again not sure if they are elite (I'm not sure Alabama's is either).

Either way, will be a war in Baton Rouge (as usual).

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If Les Miles would run a play not named halfback dive, LSU might have a better chance to beat Alabama. The play calling is always abysmal when the two get together. The offense needs to expand and become more creative... This is 2016, not 2000.

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LSU needs to do what Georgia used to do with Stafford/Murray. Those teams were power run teams but much less predictable, threw the ball well and got huge chunk plays. Granted, they had 2 very good QBs, but Richt and Bobo were always pretty good at mixing things up. Arkansas is another example.

LSU can keep being a power team, but they can't run twice then throw on 3rd down like it is 1993.

Miles isn't capable of that. His entire ego-driven existence as a coach is predicated on imitating the alpha dog coach in his conference and trying to beat him/unseat him at his own game, thusly assuming the status of alpha dog coach for himself.

He tried that for years in the BIG XII by imitating Bob Stoops and trying to beat him at his own game. He succeeded in winning a couple of games which fed his ego and that was pretty much it. He seethed and got red-assed about Stoops for several seasons getting bested again and again until he finally decided to get up and run out at the first opportunity. Not that I wouldn't leave OSU for LSU either, but when you're trying to become the alpha dog by imitating the alpha dog, it's a recipe for failure.

Where do you think he got his "Mad Hatter" trickeration persona from? That imitation came straight from "The River Boat Gambler" himself, Bob Stoops.

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If Les Miles would run a play not named halfback dive, LSU might have a better chance to beat Alabama. The play calling is always abysmal when the two get together. The offense needs to expand and become more creative... This is 2016, not 2000.

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That is what I am saying as well....For whatever reason, Miles has shown no ability to change is offense to become more creative. A power formation running into the teeth of Bama's D even with the best RB in the country was a recipe for disaster.

Regarding the questions about Bo Scar, the consistency at running back has been insane in the Saban era.

Ingram: 3 years, 572 carries, 3,261yds, 5.7ypc, 46tTds
TRich: 3 years, 540 carries, 3,130yds, 5.8ypc, 42tTds
Yeldon: 3 years, 576 carries, 3,322yds, 5.8ypc, 39tTds
Henry : 3 years, 602 carries, 3,591yds, 6.0ypc, 45tTds

Drake and Lacy had slightly better stats in smaller sample sizes. I imagine Lacy's would have probably been right there in the same ball park as the above. And Drake simply isn't an every-down tailback like those guys.

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Drake and Lacy had slightly better stats in smaller sample sizes.

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Yep - if you extrapolate out Lacy's totals to 575 carries his numbers look like

575 carries, 3,891 yds, 6.8 ypc, 49 TDs

We goin' to the ship again!

Pucker thy assholes!

ya, and his 2012 OL was amazing, when he got most of his carries.

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Who will be yalls QB?

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Blake Barnett, David Cornwell or Cooper Bateman

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Who you think is the best of the 3? I'd say Barnett is the starter.

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Personally I want Barnett to take the reigns and be the QB for the next 4 years. I think he is the most talented guy on the roster and maybe the most talented QB we have had in a long time. However, I've long since given up handicapping QB races.