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re: I can’t escape this nagging feeling…
Posted on 9/2/25 at 6:35 am to Recoveringcajun
Posted on 9/2/25 at 6:35 am to Recoveringcajun
This is some loser mentality, participation trophy shite. Keep these kind of games on my schedule. We play a small school, you guys bitch about the stadium being empty. We play a big school, you guys bitch about the possibility of losing. We play a mid major, you guys bitch that it's not an in state school. We play an in state school, you guys bitch because it's not a tougher opponent. STFU
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Posted on 9/2/25 at 6:43 am to Recoveringcajun
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Just imagine how much the UF staff learned about their team by watching their team square off against Long Island!
LSU still made a ton of small mistakes that kept the game much closer than it needed to be, and those issues will be corrected with game tape to review and actual live reps for players
in the NIL era, scheduling the big OOC game week 2 helps your new players to gel on your team and get some game tape on your opponent who may look completely different from the previous offseason
also, you don’t have to risk suspensions as players have the entire offseason to do something stupid
in the 12 team playoff there’s already been proven to have marginal benefit to even playing a hard OOC game, but there is absolutely no true benefit to scheduling the game Week 1 instead of Week 2
This post was edited on 9/2/25 at 6:46 am
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:14 am to Recoveringcajun
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Nick Saban made a great point on Gameday about these types of openers, saying that it keeps the players more focused during the offseason because the players always love to play in the big game environments.
Remember 2011 when LSU opened against #3 Oregon on a neutral field. I dont know if LSU ever looked sharper on a season opener. They had busted butt in the offseason focused on that game and working on speed because Oregon was thought to be notoriously fast. That speed and sharpness helped them through the whole season.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:20 am to TheWalrus
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Great sarcasm, board missed it
There’s a surprise
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:56 am to Recoveringcajun
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Doubling down on fear of real opponents, eh?
Wanting the easiest playoff path isn’t “fear of real opponents.” That was a great win, but I’d still rather as many cupcakes as possible. That game was losable until the end, and dropping Game 1—like we’ve done five years straight, including three with BK—would’ve put us behind the 8 ball and probably killed playoff chances. Now LSU just needs to survive the SEC with two losses to likely get in. I want another natty, not “good” OOC games, and you shouldn’t either.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 10:02 am to Recoveringcajun
Either your prepared or your not . To the coaches and players credit we were obviously prepared for Clemson . To be the best you gotta beat the best . Why should we cower down and be scared to play a top ranked opponent? It should be the other top ranked opponent scared of LSU.
Posted on 9/2/25 at 10:48 am to jkylejohnson
quote:Coaches create LSU FB schedules?
Nick Saban never played in them. He always scheduled a jagoff team week 1.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 8:25 am to TN Tygah
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I want another natty, not “good” OOC games, and you shouldn’t either.
You won’t get another natty when your soft untested team runs into actual competition for the first time in the playoffs.
Any title run based on a patsy schedule is weak.
And btw…Clempson is still in the hunt. Losing a season opener against a contender does not kill a team’s playoff chances. As long as they finish like a true contender, nobody is going to be talking about Clempson’s August loss to LSU when November arrives.
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