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Most on here say he’s the best coach on campus. He’s a good coach but you are a fool if you think he's better than Mulkey.

Any list that has Chase should include Jefferson. Chase also quit the team a few weeks before his junior year. Not sure that was the biggest “DAWG” move.

Again the recent results today prove my point further. It’s all about increasing your chances to make the playoffs. Anyone that thinks it’s a “beta” approach should ask themselves what they want to accomplish. The committee made it clear. Quality wins do not matter compared to record.

This is EXACTLY my point when you bring up 2022 and 2023. It’s all about increasing your odds to get to the playoffs not sabotaging them.

Well ND losing to A&M didn’t have an impact because they beat A&M first of all….secondly, had they played Vanderbilt instead of A&M they’d be ranked about the same place, which was my overall point.

We played ucla as well this year. And for everyone disagreeing with this thought, why don’t you ask Florida fans what they think about difficult schedules. They went 7-5 and are an afterthought partly because they faced murderer’s row…if they play Missouri’s schedule they are probably 10-2 or 9-3 and a borderline playoff team. If you ask Florida fans if they would rather have played Texas, Miami, etc and gotten the excitement of those big games this year or played weaker opponents during the season and made the playoffs, what option do you think they take?

Apologies for the long-winded post, but we REALLY need to reach out to Woodward and Ausberry to stop the madness of starting against difficult opponents. I realize this has been spoken about ad nauseum, but I want to show the results of the rankings to prove my point:

LSU beat Ole Miss and SCAR head-to head and finished with an 8-4 record. LSU finished unranked in the playoff rankings and behind teams like ULL and Tulane in the AP/Coaches Poll. Now, let's pretend we did not play that USC game and scheduled an opponent like Western Kentucky instead (I realize that we should have beaten USC, and Kelly absolutely needs to do a better job of getting the team ready to play opening games like Les did during his tenure. But even so, let's continue this exercise). If LSU plays Westen Kentucky, they finish the season 9-3 with head-to head wins over Ole Miss and SCAR and 5-3 in the SEC with a non-conf win over UCLA. With a brand and SOS similar to LSU's, what ranking do you think LSU gets? I would say certainly over teams like BYU, Mizzou, UNLV, Illinois, Syracuse, Colorado, Army, and Memphis. Therefore, we would finish ranked 17th worst case scenario and you could make the argument that we would finish 13th over Ole Miss and SCAR due to the head-to head victory component.

Now let's pretend LSU played USC and had beaten them finishing 9-3 with the same record against everyone else. What ranking does LSU get? I'd argue the EXACT same had we not even played them. 17th would be the floor and 13th would be the ceiling. You may say that does not matter we had our chances to win vs Florida and A&M and blew it and you'd be correct. I realize 13th would still not be good enough for the playoffs. However, this experiment is to show how much rankings hinge on record over quality wins. At the end of the day, the committee will use whatever reasoning they want to let a team in (just as they did both years with Bama, particularly last year with Bama over FSU)but WHY SHOULD WE CONTINUE TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR OURSLEVES TO MAKE THE PLAYOFFS.

Let's take last year as anther example. If LSU played Colorado instead of FSU, they would have finished 10-2. If the playoffs were the same format as this year, LSU would NOT have made it last year at 9-3. They WOULD have made it at 10-2. Again why take ourselves out of it. I understand wanting excting games to open the season, but until this thing ends up in an NFL style format, why give ourselves a disadvantage when we already play in the grueling SEC. I can already see a scenario unfolding next year where LSU finishes 9-3 with a road loss to Clemson and is left out of the playoffs behind a team like Missouri that we would clearly be favored over but have an extra loss due to schedule discrepancies. This needs to stop until the sport is transitioned to a better format.

We will be coming from Vienna then leaving to go to portugal/back To US. Won’t have a car so the trip to Hallstatt would have to be via bus on a day trip or train.

My wife and I will be in salzburg for three days in December as part of a bigger trip. We were thinking of doing a day trip or two to Hallstatt, Berchtesgaden, or possibly a ski resort on top of visiting the city of salzburg. What is the boards recommendations for best use of the three days we have in the area during this timeframe?