Well, Buzzard, with all due respect, that's what we call a homer viewpoint. LSU finished #3 last season despite playing four ranked teams on the road and losing two, one to the eventual national champions. #3 is being competitive for the national championship in anybody's book. Something else you seem to have forgotten is that LSU started both those seasons low in the top-10 and finished in the top-5. That's called playing beyond expectations. You guys are really reaching to find something to dis Les about. "LSU has been so loaded with talent the past two years that he should have been playing for a MNC". How long have you been watching this game, amigo? Since when does talent alone take a team to a national championship? Why didn't Nick win it again with his loaded teams in 2004 and 2005? Why didn't Zook win with Spurriers fine talent? Ain't it obvious? If averaging 11 wins a season and never finishing out of the top-5 is dissapointing to Bama fans, Nick (or any coach) doesn't have a hope in hell of meeting expectations. Bama fans seem to think Nick will be instant championships because having a top coach is everything. Of course, in LSU's case all success comes from having talent and the coach means nothing. All of Bama's expectations about Nick are based on his record at LSU. Not his NFL record and surely not his Michigan State record. How really likely is it that he'll repeat his success twice in one career? Remember it wasn't Saint Nick that won the national championship. It was Nick and LSU. LSU is 22-4 without Nick. Nick is 15-17 without LSU.
in all fairness to the gump clm bashers, in addition to the crappy points of "winning with saban's talent", and "shouldve played for NC with all that talent", there is the point that clm hasnt won squat. in rankings of sec coaches he will always be behind spurrier, meyer, fulmer and saban as long as he doesnt have a NC. and richt has sec titleS and tuberville went 13-0. so it easy to understand how nonanalytical rankings put clm in bottom half.
Letting 'em get to you. Saban may or may not be able to repeat what he accomplished WITH LSU. He would be the first coach in the history of college football to win NC's at more that one school, if he can recreate the chemistry. That is what appeals to his ego.
I would have done the same even if you had been here. Do I at least get a little credit for originality on this one.:hihi:
