King Joey
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Just south of the DC/US border |
| Biography: | "Please leave out all sordid details." There's not much else to tell . . . . |
| Interests: | LSU |
| Occupation: | Lawyer |
| Number of Posts: | 12716 |
| Registered on: | 3/3/2004 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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When are yall going to learn to ignore these people?
FIFY.
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A guy in my law school section had some sort of connection to athletics. He talked the powers into letting the law students be a buffer zone between the younger students and the older paying fans. It was a blocked off section in a prime spot
That was just your friendly SAAC doing their job. I was on there as an RHA rep when we did that. Crazy times.
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re: Ngl I think we’re a terrible matchup for Vanderbilt
Posted by King Joey on 10/14/25 at 4:43 pm to lsufball19
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This same guy was shut down by our horrid defense as a 5th year senior last year
Had to go check last year's schedule to confirm, but yeah, didn't we face this same guy last year? When he actually beat Bama? And he had like, what, 225 yards of total offense?
I'm not taking anything for granted, but I'm not all that worried.
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Pavia has been much, much better running the ball than Sellers has this year.
That may be true, but also not relevant to his point. Sellers made a lot of plays against us by breaking tackles with his size and strength. That's not been Pavia's style (from what I've seen). He's a lot more Manziel-like with evasiveness and awareness. That presents different problems, but problems we may be better suited to handle. And even if he does much better than Sellers, that's not saying much; we contained him very well.
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re: Positive story about Tiger Stadium atmosphere.
Posted by King Joey on 10/14/25 at 2:53 pm to SwampBandit
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the DJ selections absolutely sucks arse
So there is a DJ actually playing that music all the time? I thought that was just a promotional thing for the SLU game (or whichever one it was).
If that's true, then yeah, it pretty much sucks. I wonder if the administration has bothered with any actual data on whether that crap actually helps with recruits, crowds, or anything else? I'd be curious to see that kind of study, and where it comes from.
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re: Remove the Nuss pre-season expectations and the goal line int Saturday
Posted by King Joey on 10/13/25 at 4:50 pm to Meauxjeaux
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68% zero-chance-and-it’s-even-worse-as-everyone-laughs-at-our-bonehead-turnovers-and-decisions
Funny, I don't recall SC, Florida or Clemson laughing? That's 50% right there, and doesn't even count Tech and SLU.
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re: LSU may be ranked No. 10, but the reality is we're not a top 10 or a legitimate CFP team
Posted by King Joey on 10/13/25 at 4:15 pm to homemadeshine
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Just curious: did you see that we beat South Carolina by 10?
Just checking, you might need a new prescription for your glasses.
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It doesn't matter where or how hard he seems to get hit, he gets up limping and it seemingly disappears by the time the ball is snapped for the next play.
I have no idea if it's related, but I had a weird tendon (maybe ligament?) in my ankle that used to pop out of position all the time in high school. It would hurt like hell for a few seconds then pop back in and was fine. Usually never even swelled up, even if it happened multiple times in a game. Bodies do weird shite, especially when you strain them. Considering how much bigger/stronger/faster these guys are than ANY of us were in my day, I can only imagine it's even more so.
But it is kind of weird seeing him do that over and over. I wonder if it might be a psych out thing, so the other team won't be able to tell when he's ACTUALLY gimpy?
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re: Offensive Improvement...game was objectively a move in the right direction offensively
Posted by King Joey on 10/13/25 at 2:57 pm to Beef Supreme
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Granted you can easily look at those numbers and say it is still not close to where we need them be and that would be fair.
This team can easily win a championship with 166 rush yards/game, if the rest of the offense is consistent. We don't actually need to run the ball any better than the we did Saturday night, we just need to eliminate the catastrophic mistakes and be more timely with our run game.
One of the post-game guys made a good point, imo, comparing it to last season in baseball when we had guys start getting hits, which was an improvement, but we weren't getting timely hits and producing runs. It wasn't until closer to the end of the season that it all started to come together with timely hits. That's kind of how I feel about our offense Saturday. We got enough hits, we just had too many bonehead mistakes and not enough timely hits (like with 1st & goal from the 1) to put the game away.
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re: O line gets pushed BACKWARDS on running plays.
Posted by King Joey on 10/13/25 at 2:47 pm to Fat Bastard
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take out the SELU
This is hilarious from the "coulda woulda shoulda" guy.
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re: O line gets pushed BACKWARDS on running plays.
Posted by King Joey on 10/13/25 at 2:40 pm to Fat Bastard
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woulda coulda shoulda
Won. Bitching about style points is the ultimate "woulda coulda shoulda". The job is to win games, and we won. If you're going to dig deeper for shite to bitch about, and then ignore every single positive, then you're just whining to be a whiner.
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re: O line gets pushed BACKWARDS on running plays.
Posted by King Joey on 10/13/25 at 2:37 pm to ShaneTheMaster
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We actually lost 2 fricking yards on a QB sneak. Has that happened ever in the game of football?
Happens quite often on a fumble. Oftentimes the outcome is even more disastrous.
Still can't figure out how an isolation throw to Tray'dez Green doesn't get tried at least once with three shots at it. I know we're trying to kill clock and burn their timeouts, but that play either works or draws a PI flag well over half the time. And PI flag seals the game even more than a TD would!
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re: LSU has zero in state competition in one of the most talent rich states in the country
Posted by King Joey on 10/10/25 at 3:16 pm to tigahlovah
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He's stated LSU should NEVER win less than 10 games per year. I agree completely
Interesting, then, that the guy generally regarded as the GOAT of college football coaching did it three out of the five years he was here, including coming off an SEC Championship season and again in year 5 coming off a National Championship Season. Opinions are fine for conversation, but objective history suggests that particular opinion is pretty far off.
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Under Sloan, it appears the approach is to use very few different formations
I know I have seen various coaches and coordinators over the years talk about kind of the opposite plan of what Cublic was talking about: running lots of different plays out of the same formation so that the defense couldn't read it. I guess it varies based on the approach, but I wonder if that's not what Sloan is attempting.
Of course, if you don't execute the play properly it probably doesn't matter how you try to confuse the defense; if the offense is just as confused, it doesn't really help.
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That's exactly why they are created- to make up for a deficiency at talent at some spot.
Not necessarily. They are also created to take advantage of deficiencies on the other team. And sometimes they are created simply to take advantage of concepts (like the spread) or technicalities in the rules (like the hurry-up) that hadn't been contemplated before. That's why so many schemes appear dominant for a short while, then seem to fade as other minds in the sport adjust to the new concept. Sometimes it reveals a fundamental oversight in conventional wisdom and elements of it remain permanently (some aspects of various iterations of the spread will most likely be with us forever). Other times the scheme as a whole will seem to fade away as teams adjust to neutralize it, only to come back many years later when other trends leave teams vulnerable to it again, usually incorporating some newer concepts to modernize the old scheme (variants of the wishbone/triple option have seen this cycle multiple times).
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And then the better teams, having struggled against those schemes, would move to them to gain an advantage against other good teams.
Yeah, basically, that. And then the cycle starts all over again.
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re: Chants
Posted by King Joey on 10/10/25 at 2:00 pm to boxcarbarney
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I just wish the crowd would sing the actual fight song, Fight for LSU, after a touchdown. But that's asking a lot.
Personally, I'd be more interested in the stadium going back to chanting, "TIGER BAIT!" at the other team rather than just booing them like every other stadium does. I can remember in the '70s and '80s seeing other teams actually phased by that (of course running right past a 400 pound live Bengal tiger might have had something to do with it, too).
I always thought it was cool and way more unique to LSU than just booing them.
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Your statement misses a very big question: a winner at what?
Many of us have spent decades watching college football. It has an endless variety of traditions, eccentricities, moments, and history. It also has had certain qualities for the vast majority of its history. Many of those qualities are minor and largely irrelevant to the overall sport. Some, however, are not. College football is not pro football. That's literally the reason the word "college" is in it. With the expansion and creep of NIL and other forms of pay for play, that distinction is eroding almost completely to non-existence. With it (in my opinion) will also soon follow the erosion of the student-athlete quality of college football when some football player successfully sues to eliminate the registration requirements. At that point (if not sooner), it will be impossible to say that LSU is competing in "college football".
So the question becomes, do we want LSU to be a winner at professional football? Maybe so. But I, personally, don't give two shits about professional football. I would like for LSU to succeed in everything it does, but I have no more emotional investment in an LSU-sponsored pro football team than I do an LSU-sponsored equity investment in the stock market. I'm not likely to buy tickets and then show up hours early to tailgate for an LSU School of Business job fair. I hope those things go well for them, but I'm disinclined to spend thousands of dollars a year on tickets, parking, merch, concessions, etc, and invest endless hours and emotions in them. Ditto for a professional sports team. If I did care about pro football, there are much better pro football teams playing on Sundays, and one of them is even right here in the state. So if I were inclined to invest time, money, emotion and energy into pro football, why would I waste it on a B-league team on Saturdays?
My passion is college sports. As long as LSU fields a college football team, I will be passionate about following it. When LSU stops fielding a college football team, I will mourn the loss of a passion (unless other schools are still fielding college football teams; in that case, maybe one of them will trigger an emotional connection; but I doubt it). I don't know the future, so I can't guarantee that I won't care about LSU's B-League pro football team, but I can't really see any reason why I would.
Then again, fandom is seldom (if every) about reason.
But that's the correct question.
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Many of us have spent decades watching college football. It has an endless variety of traditions, eccentricities, moments, and history. It also has had certain qualities for the vast majority of its history. Many of those qualities are minor and largely irrelevant to the overall sport. Some, however, are not. College football is not pro football. That's literally the reason the word "college" is in it. With the expansion and creep of NIL and other forms of pay for play, that distinction is eroding almost completely to non-existence. With it (in my opinion) will also soon follow the erosion of the student-athlete quality of college football when some football player successfully sues to eliminate the registration requirements. At that point (if not sooner), it will be impossible to say that LSU is competing in "college football".
So the question becomes, do we want LSU to be a winner at professional football? Maybe so. But I, personally, don't give two shits about professional football. I would like for LSU to succeed in everything it does, but I have no more emotional investment in an LSU-sponsored pro football team than I do an LSU-sponsored equity investment in the stock market. I'm not likely to buy tickets and then show up hours early to tailgate for an LSU School of Business job fair. I hope those things go well for them, but I'm disinclined to spend thousands of dollars a year on tickets, parking, merch, concessions, etc, and invest endless hours and emotions in them. Ditto for a professional sports team. If I did care about pro football, there are much better pro football teams playing on Sundays, and one of them is even right here in the state. So if I were inclined to invest time, money, emotion and energy into pro football, why would I waste it on a B-league team on Saturdays?
My passion is college sports. As long as LSU fields a college football team, I will be passionate about following it. When LSU stops fielding a college football team, I will mourn the loss of a passion (unless other schools are still fielding college football teams; in that case, maybe one of them will trigger an emotional connection; but I doubt it). I don't know the future, so I can't guarantee that I won't care about LSU's B-League pro football team, but I can't really see any reason why I would.
Then again, fandom is seldom (if every) about reason.
But that's the correct question.
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re: Braelin Moore..We lack details, execution. Can’t tell you why. And Nuss is “slinging it”
Posted by King Joey on 10/9/25 at 3:19 pm to TigersJump
Bottom line, coaching is hard. Coaching in college is even harder, and coaching in the SEC is the hardest in the world outside of the NFL (and a different animal than the NFL, so potentially even harder than the NFL; see, Bill Belichek). And sometimes it takes a lot of things and a lot of time to get things working. But many of the most vocal commenters (especially here) don't get that, or at least act like they don't get it.
Most of them would look at an LSU team with a 4-3 record and a 2-3 record in the SEC and the worst passing defense in the country over halfway through the season, and declare that they know that team is doomed and that coach is terrible and doing a terrible job and there's no way that team is competing for a championship. Well, we saw that team, and that team went on to win the SEC (which in today's game means a CFP slot), and beat the living crap out of the Big 10 Champion (another CFP team in today's game) in the Sugar Bowl (which would have been a CFP game) and finish in the top 10; and that "terrible" coach was Nick Saban, which at that time those same kinds of posters on this very board were complaining about as an overpaid (because of a MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT!) coach from a second-tier Big 10 school with the worst pass defense in the country (despite being billed as a defensive guru) and a losing record in conference nearly halfway through the season who also lost at home to UAB.
Obviously, ALL those opinions -- despite being presented as "facts" -- were dead wrong. That team did not suck, not even in pass defense, and absolutely would be a championship-contending team in today's game. That coach did not suck at defense, was not overpaid, and definitely was not terrible.
So all the claims by random posters on a message board about what will or will not happen with this team are complete horseshite. None of us know anything about how this team or this season will turn out. And, importantly, no amount of opinions on this or any other board (except the Board of Supervisors) is going to change whatever happens for this team one bit. The only thing our speculation can affect at this point is our own mood and our own experience. The most bewildering aspect of this board is how many people choose to contemplate doom and gloom outcomes rather than the equally plausible successful outcomes. No, whatever you think you saw about the OL not opening running lanes or Nuss not being accurate or the OC making terrible play calls or anything else does not make it any more likely that this team is going to miss the CFP than it makes it more likely they will make the CFP. You have no rational basis for expecting failure from this season more so than expecting success. So why choose to expect failure? It just doesn't make any sense to me.
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Most of them would look at an LSU team with a 4-3 record and a 2-3 record in the SEC and the worst passing defense in the country over halfway through the season, and declare that they know that team is doomed and that coach is terrible and doing a terrible job and there's no way that team is competing for a championship. Well, we saw that team, and that team went on to win the SEC (which in today's game means a CFP slot), and beat the living crap out of the Big 10 Champion (another CFP team in today's game) in the Sugar Bowl (which would have been a CFP game) and finish in the top 10; and that "terrible" coach was Nick Saban, which at that time those same kinds of posters on this very board were complaining about as an overpaid (because of a MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT!) coach from a second-tier Big 10 school with the worst pass defense in the country (despite being billed as a defensive guru) and a losing record in conference nearly halfway through the season who also lost at home to UAB.
Obviously, ALL those opinions -- despite being presented as "facts" -- were dead wrong. That team did not suck, not even in pass defense, and absolutely would be a championship-contending team in today's game. That coach did not suck at defense, was not overpaid, and definitely was not terrible.
So all the claims by random posters on a message board about what will or will not happen with this team are complete horseshite. None of us know anything about how this team or this season will turn out. And, importantly, no amount of opinions on this or any other board (except the Board of Supervisors) is going to change whatever happens for this team one bit. The only thing our speculation can affect at this point is our own mood and our own experience. The most bewildering aspect of this board is how many people choose to contemplate doom and gloom outcomes rather than the equally plausible successful outcomes. No, whatever you think you saw about the OL not opening running lanes or Nuss not being accurate or the OC making terrible play calls or anything else does not make it any more likely that this team is going to miss the CFP than it makes it more likely they will make the CFP. You have no rational basis for expecting failure from this season more so than expecting success. So why choose to expect failure? It just doesn't make any sense to me.
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LSU is 101-42 overall and 59-33 in the SEC (including SECCGs). That’s an average of 9-4 (5-3). That is mediocre and exactly what we make fun of Texas A&M for.
Not sure about you, but I make fun of A&M for a lot of things. But being "mediocre" at 8-4 (which is the actual joke) is not one of them; it is being above average (which they are when they are 8-4) but acting like they are championship caliber. We, on the other hand, have fans that act like spoiled dipshits who can't grasp basic math ("mediocre" out of 130+ teams -- which is what we have -- is in the 60th-70th range, which is not 9-4). Plus, we also won a championship, our third in less than 25 years; A&M hasn't won one since history was written down (yes, I know I'm exaggerating).
101-42 is distinctly above "mediocre". It might qualify as "mediocre among national powerhouse teams" or "mediocre among historical contenders" or "mediocre among the elite of college football", but that all first comes with the concession that we are indeed a "national powerhouse", "historical contenders", or "among the elite of college football".
So take your pick; stick with the notion that we are "mediocre" and admit that is only because you are comparing us to our peers as we are among the elite of college football, and complain about being that. Or, acknowledge that we are in fact well above mediocre among our actual competitors, the 130+ FBS football teams in the country.
Or just keep making up bullshite to bitch about. Whatever floats your boat. I'm gonna be happy about being an LSU fan because it means we win a hell of a lot more than we lose the last 2 1/2 decades, and I understand what a blessing that is for ANY college football fan.
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Hmmm. The only other possibility I am coming up with is he meant before Nuss, and a QB that actually finished at LSU and never transferred.
Though, that would actually not include Perrilloux. So I guess he's just a dumbass. :lol:
Don't worry too much about it, OP. We've all been there a time or two.
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Though, that would actually not include Perrilloux. So I guess he's just a dumbass. :lol:
Don't worry too much about it, OP. We've all been there a time or two.
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