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Don’t forget juniors like Dare either.

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Dare Rosenthal? He is a redshirt freshman.

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I don’t think this is as big a need as some people are making it out to be.

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It's not. We have several freshmen and soph olinemen.
Freshmen Olinemen:
Anthony Bradford
Kardell Thomas
Dare Rosenthal Rfr
Thomas Perry
Charles Turner
Cameron Wire Rfr

Soph olinemen:
Chasen Hines
Ed Ingram Rsoph

Several juniors should be returning for next season. Oline will be better next season than they are this season. Oline isn't a need this class, but they will need to sign a large class next season. I think this class they are focusing on quality, not quantity. No projects this class, only college ready olinemen. Next class they can afford to take a couple projects. But the way these kids are wanting to go to LSU, I don't think they will need to sign any projects.

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Ramsey Dardar 1982

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Are you Ramsey?

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How many fans of the Rant are 60 or over?

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remember well the days of Cholly Mac, Bert Jones, Tyler Lefauci, Warren Capone, Tommy Casonova, and others of the late 60s, early 70s?

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My Cub Scout Pack use to go to LSU games and we would escort people to their seat's. I think that was the 1971/1972 season. I was 7 or 8 but did not really follow LSU football back then. SO I don't recall which games we went to. I do recall one game there was barley anybody there. Another game was packed and it got very poud that game. So I don't really recall those 60's and early 70's teams.
But by the 1978 season I was starting to follow LSU a little. By then it had been may years since LSU beat bama. Talk was that the game had passed ole Cholly Mac up and he needed to go. 1979 season LSU barley lost to USC and bama and both were NC teams that season. USC was loaded with talent. Those were moral victories. Something fans accepted at that time.
When Bo Rein was hired we were very excited. He was a very good coach, young and smart. I truly believe had he not died LSU would have competed for NC's during the 80's.

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Coach O wasn’t critical of the defense?

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No, I am not. A head coach wears different hats. When talking to the media he wears one hat, when addressing his players he wears another. You don't throw anybody under the bus in public. That's a good way to create dissention and animosity with players. If you make negative comments in public about a particular group you are separating them from the team aspect. You can say something like, "we could have done better on stopping the run." Or something of that affect, but you must be careful when pointing to a particular person or group. Behind closed doors there's a different way to address issues.

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non-hyperbolic,

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On this board, not going to happen. Not enough people on here know or understand the game to make educated, rational, well represented, non-hyperbolic statements. How many on here actually strapped on the pads on the HS varsity level? How many learned terms and techniques, scheme's, drills? From what I've seen on here, not many. So you will only get non-hyperbolic comments from a very small percentage. Let me add, you can still know and understand the game even if you never played. If you studied the game and learned. Just saying, most on here have not learned the game and didn't play the game. And some of those make the dumbest, most uneducated and insulting comments, simply because they have no idea wtf they are talking about.

That being said. This defense is young at certain positions, young and no depth, like CB. One veteran and the rest true freshmen. As good as Stingley is, he is still a true freshman and it shows at times. At other positions there's a lot of talent, like Dline, but not much quality depth. And that's a position you really need a solid 2 deep. LSU just doesn't have it. That hurts in the 2nd half when starters are getting weary and you bring in backups that are not nearly as good. same thing with the LBing group. You have some good starters, but after that there isn't a lot of depth. Especially now that Divinity is gone. You are forced to bring in a true freshman to start. There's a lot of talented LBer's, but you have one really good one and 2 or 3 good, but no great and not much depth. Safety is basically the same thing.

LSU just doesn't have the depth on defense to maintain a high level of play for 4 quarters.

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Ika will always be a NT.

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Just saying, he will definitely be one of the best dlinemen on the roster next season along with Shelvin. Maybe move Shelvin over. It'd be best to have the best on the line.

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LMAO You got it man. I don't know how to put those gifs on my post. Funny scene though.

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I mean off the top of my head:

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I think he means coming straight from HS and labeled as the potential to be a top 5. All those guys were great, but coming out of HS were not ranked as high as Burch.

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And other lists had named Iowa #1. Almost every sports mag had their own list.

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True but I think what he is saying is the AP was who the media and public recognized as NC. And they had their last vote before the Bowl games. You can go look at other seasons and see that LSU was recognized by other services/mag's as NC. Until the BCS the NCAA did not have an official NC. There was one other poll that was widely accepted as determining the NC, that was the UPI (United Press International, basically college football coaches) It wasn't until the early 1970's they waited until after the bowls to crown their champ. It wasn't until 1968 that the AP waited until after bowl games to crown their champ. So basically before then the bowl games didn't factor into the accepted services to crown the NC.