iamandykeim

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Who wants to think about this shite in the preseason?

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it's a rainy day in July. this is just what we do.

you forgot to adjust the formatting from ChatGPT buddy

The win over Auburn 2008. Down 14-3 at half, and needed a great 2nd half from Jarrett Lee, who delivered with a touchdown to LaFell with only a minute left to win it.

It wasn't just coming out flat under BK - we came out on fire against A&M 2024 and FSU 2023 and then shite our pants in the 2nd half. It's why BK's message toward the end was always to play a "complete game" - we always had a dead spot in the big games under BK. Loss of focus, unprepared, poor playcalling, bad personnel, you name it. There was always an easy thing to point to as to why we weren't playing to the level we expect. The difference under Lane, I'm hoping, will be that we will have many more games where we look like the team we expect to be from start to finish. If you lose games that way, you tip your cap. Every loss under BK left us saying "what the frick was that?"

I feel bad because you clearly thought you had a fun, light-hearted idea, but this is such a horrible suggestion that you will surely get torn to shreds.

I mean it was definitely tough to feel good when Beanie Wells took it 75 yards, but I had watched enough of that team to know that we would at the very least make it a close game. That offense was just so good in the big moments.

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Easy test ... Ole miss

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not as easy as you thought I guess :lol:

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Lots of RPO's.
Totally opposite of BK & Sloan's stale offense.

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Sloan ran a ton of RPOs just FYI

Max Browne has one of the better film channels on Youtube. Played for Kiffin at USC. Had plenty of good things to say about Leavitt and the LSU offense as a whole in this video.



My b if already posted. Didn't see it when I searched.

You may say that he "popped"

The sport was better when it was less accessible. The leaders of the sport are working hard to make everything very easy to access and understand for the casual fan. On its face, the 24 team playoff is fantastic. More postseason competition, lots of entertaining matchups, and a champion crowned directly on the field. What the casual fan does not / cannot comprehend is what is being lost:

Less meaningful regular season.
With 24 teams making the tournament, the elite teams are virtually guaranteed a spot. Yes, the regular season games can still be entertaining and the players will still play hard and want to win. But, the key difference there is that while they want to win, they won't actually have to win to avoid being at risk of reaching the playoff. The absolute desperation of the regular season is gone.

Genuinely meaningless bowl games.
This will fall on deaf ears for casual fans, but bowl games used to be a lot of fun and competitive. Reaching the Sugar Bowl, the Cotton Bowl, or even the damn Capital One Bowl was a really fun way to cap off a solid year. It was a moment to say "this season we came up a bit short, but this is our last chance to get to see a lot of these guys play, and we still had a damn good year."

Winning those games would actually create a lot of momentum going into the offseason and following year - look at how the 2006 Sugar Bowl, the 2010 Cotton Bowl, and the 2018 Peach Bowl carried to the next year. Whooped arse in a big bowl game on big stages, and it resulted in 3 teams that came into the next season with a lot of swagger and belief in themselves. Instead, 23 of the top 24 teams in college football will end the season with a loss. Think about Vanderbilt this past year - they had an amazing season by Vandy standards, but because of this culture that's been created that it's playoffs or bust, they ended the season in disappointment rather than going to something like the Orange Bowl and potentially capping things off with a statement win.

Watered down games.
Yes, the 24 team playoff would create exciting matchups and inevitably some all time classic finishes, but at some point, I'll just feel numb to the big moments because there will simply be too many big moments. I don't even care that 17 seeded Iowa went on the road and upset 16 seeded Utah because there's just too much to follow.