Does your professor know you're surfing during class? :shock:[/QUOTE] These kids have it so easy these days. In my time at LSU, the most off-task fun I had was drinking Malibu and Coke in the back of a math class with a guy from New Orleans. He showed up once a week with the goods, and we didn't learn much math.
That's cool. But there's another to way to handle the situation other than being the forum police: 1) Don't post in threads you don't like/agree with/bore you. 2) Start your own threads to foster more "productive" discussion. I'm not trying to be sarcastic or anything. I don't necessarily like every thread on TF, but I deal with it by staying out of discussions that don't interest me. To each his own, and all that. Topic: Florida Kentucky, I hope. Arkansas, I hope I hope I hope.
You're forgetting or are not aware that I'm an old curmudgeon. Plus, I think it's a topic that is begging for a dissenting voice.
I guess it's a matter of what a fan's interests are cause you surely don't mind doing these things in terms of: Recruiting: Redshirting: Or the future of our coach: Though they may not be exact parallels, they're surely "Projections" of outcomes and what make college football exciting. Imagine never being able to say, "We're going to beat y'all" and just keeping our mouths shut til after sitting and watching the game then saying, "Yeah! We won. I've watched it now so I can say I thought we would."
Wow. You're really torturing this comparison. This is a QUESTION. A question is not a prediction. A question is not a projection. It's a simple question, does Destrehan have LSU-level prospects down the line for the future? I really don't get what you're driving at here. So the simple "prediction" that players who haven't played up to this point likely won't unless injury forces them into the lineup is in some way similar to "Florida will beat Tennessee by 10 points"? You're reaching with this one. This is virtually a statement of fact. On the safe assumption that Lloyd Carr will resign or be fired at the end of the year, which virtually everyone believes is likely to happen, by the time National Signing Day rolls around, either Miles will have been hired for that position and LSU will have hired another coach, or Miles will not be hired by Michigan, in which case we can be sure he'll be our coach for a while. In either event, by the time recruits have to make their final decisions on where to go, we'll have a coach in place, whether it's Miles or someone else. I can't think of a single counter example in living memory where a major college football team went into National Signing Day without a coach. All this is, of course, beyond the point of what I was saying. What I was saying is that we aren't facing a multi-year saga like we faced with Nick Saban. Miles is a Michigan guy, and the Michigan job appears to be coming open. If it's filled with someone other than Miles, it will be filled for a long time. I really don't know what you're driving at here. None of these situations are even remotely related to the point I'm trying to make, which is that games are played on the field, not on message boards.
Oh, then my bad for thinking his post (Below) were questions too. :hihi: Questions about "Who's going to win" solicit responses that are "Projections" to which you criticized. No different to the examples I cited in which you are "Projecting" or seeking "Projection". Yes. Predictions are predictions....who plays? who wins? No??? Hmmm......all those "If's, And's and But's"......sounds a lot like picking who'll win any given game. Like you say, "Virtually everyone believes" Florida beating Tennessee will happen. Nice try though.
If you can't see the fundamental differences there, there's no point in arguing. You'll never see it because you don't want to see it.
