SEC

This is Les Miles' last year at LSU. He'll be Michigan's head coach next year.

[ddthetide]

[quote=dylbert]1. Win games you are supposed to win with Mike Shula's recruits.

2. Beat Auburn

3. Don't get embarassed by LSU

Nick Saban is too professional to not understand that he will not beat LSU with current talent. In 2009, when LSU returns to Tuscalossa, LSU should be afraid, be very afraid. Because all of Saban's talent will have departed LSU and all of the skill positions of Crimson Tide will be HIS recruits.[/quote]

Bama's got skill people! Grant and Coffee are doin the damage from the RB spot and shula wouldn't play them last year. shula didn't recruit linemen! IF Bama lineman start to go down, on either side of the ball, the season will go up in FLAMES FAST! they are thin and under-sized at LB too. i said 7-5, 8-4 at best, this year.

les miles will be gone from lsu after this season to take the michigan job. when he leaves Saban will rule the gulf coast in recruiting. shula GAVE AWAY Mobile and that was Saban's first trip after he accepted the job.
the SEC should be very afraid. ROLL TIDE !

[Danzig]

i hope the speculation about miles is wrong...but we'll see. lsu is a damn good program, but michigan is special to him.

sigh

[ddthetide]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i hope the speculation about miles is wrong...but we'll see. lsu is a damn good program, but michigan is special to him.

sigh

miles was a michigan lineman and played for coach bo.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by ddthetide

miles was a michigan lineman and played for coach bo.

yeah, i know...an asst coach there as well. lsu bound to be special to him too, tho....right??
can't help wondering if he'd go if they do what they're projected to do--how DOES one walk away from a national title winner (if indeed they win it this year)?

[ddthetide]

Originally Posted by Danzig

yeah, i know...an asst coach there as well. lsu bound to be special to him too, tho....right??
can't help wondering if he'd go if they do what they're projected to do--how DOES one walk away from a national title winner (if indeed they win it this year)?

lsu is just a stop along the way. he was only 3-4 years at okie st before baton rouge. he goes back to michigan, wins and is king for life.
lsu jrs & srs are still saban's players, most of miles guys aren't making an impact yet.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

L I still believe they're the best conference in the land, though.

That would be the American Football conference I believe

[dylbert]

Disclaimer: although I live in Louisiana, I am NOT LSU fan. As much as it currently hurts, I am Ole Miss fan.

LSU is top 5 program. Why? They pay the BIG BUCKS to their head coach and assistant coaches. Before LSU supporters put real money out, they were merely giving lip service to being bigtime program. Saban brought credibility, class, discipline and structure into football rich region. And he delivered national championship. He cashed his chips in short NFL stay and has returned to his true calling.

I agree with earlier poster than 'Bama has talent -- just too little talent. Once Saban machine recruits two classes, watch out SEC & BCS!

Les Miles is interesting subject. He was OK at Okie State, but didn't set world on fire there. His Michigan roots might come calling. But, money talks & BS walks! Big Two (officially known as Big Ten) does not generate enough revenue to compete with SEC, Big 12, ACC, and even Pac 10 for best coaches. Les can play his hand out at LSU and then head north.

SEC will continue as NUMBER ONE football conference.

[Cannon Shell]

An unbiased opinion is that the SEC is probably not as good as you may have thought it is from top to bottom though LSU looks like a superior team. Tennessee, Georgia, Auburn, Miss st., Ol Miss, Vandy are all flawed teams that are very ordinary especially in light of previous sucess. S. Carolina, Ark, and FL are still in the air, Alabama looks better and KY is pretty good. Outside of LSU this may be a down year for the SEC.

Auburn has a bad QB and was simply outrun to the ball on many occasions by a decent S. FL team. Georgia has been masquerading as a top 25 team for 2 years but they have no offense. Miis St stinks, Vandy was never in it yesterday (though Alabama may be much improved) Ol Miss is not very good, Tennessee struggled with a very mediocre S.Miss team before adding a late gimme TD. I keep hearing about how many players that FL lost and its hard to judge from the 2 spring training games they have played so far but I believe they are dangerous and may be the only team to give LSU a run. KY will beat Louisville this week unless the Cards start tackling people.

The fact is that as coaches learn that big is not better and that speed is the #1 factor to success, the smaller teams will turn to spread offenses and recruit unpolished players that can run. The entire upper echlon of Big East has done this and it is how teams like Louisville and Rutgers became top 20 teams seemingly overnight. Plus the added exposure that the smaller conferences have now that virtually every game is on tv somewhere allows the 2nd tier prospect to go somewhere where they will play because they know they will get exposure. The truth is that only a few teams like USC and LSU have both speed and power. Watching a Michigan the last 2 weeks and in the Rose Bowl it is readily apparent that they just lack the team speed to be really good. I dont know if any team has as many individual talents at skill postions as they do but they cant overpower teams with their big lines anymore. I guess what I am saying is that parity is coming to the college game like it did to the NFL and the power conferences are not going to just waltz in and dominate all the time. Of course the unwanted side effect is teams deciding to schedule division III non conference games as to avoid an early season loss.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

An unbiased opinion is that the SEC is probably not as good as you may have thought it is from top to bottom though LSU looks like a superior team. Tennessee, Georgia, Auburn, Miss st., Ol Miss, Vandy are all flawed teams that are very ordinary especially in light of previous sucess. S. Carolina, Ark, and FL are still in the air, Alabama looks better and KY is pretty good. Outside of LSU this may be a down year for the SEC.

Auburn has a bad QB and was simply outrun to the ball on many occasions by a decent S. FL team. Georgia has been masquerading as a top 25 team for 2 years but they have no offense. Miis St stinks, Vandy was never in it yesterday (though Alabama may be much improved) Ol Miss is not very good, Tennessee struggled with a very mediocre S.Miss team before adding a late gimme TD. I keep hearing about how many players that FL lost and its hard to judge from the 2 spring training games they have played so far but I believe they are dangerous and may be the only team to give LSU a run. KY will beat Louisville this week unless the Cards start tackling people.

The fact is that as coaches learn that big is not better and that speed is the #1 factor to success, the smaller teams will turn to spread offenses and recruit unpolished players that can run. The entire upper echlon of Big East has done this and it is how teams like Louisville and Rutgers became top 20 teams seemingly overnight. Plus the added exposure that the smaller conferences have now that virtually every game is on tv somewhere allows the 2nd tier prospect to go somewhere where they will play because they know they will get exposure. The truth is that only a few teams like USC and LSU have both speed and power. Watching a Michigan the last 2 weeks and in the Rose Bowl it is readily apparent that they just lack the team speed to be really good. I dont know if any team has as many individual talents at skill postions as they do but they cant overpower teams with their big lines anymore. I guess what I am saying is that parity is coming to the college game like it did to the NFL and the power conferences are not going to just waltz in and dominate all the time. Of course the unwanted side effect is teams deciding to schedule division III non conference games as to avoid an early season loss.

I dont know what brought that on....

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I dont know what brought that on....

i don't know either, but it's very good. making up for being gone a few days? altho the sec has been a top notch conference, they can't be the top dog every year. no conference can, and we all know that there are ups and downs.

but truly, only two teams get much attention from me in the sec. lsu, and i cheer on whoever plays arkansas.

[dylbert]

Originally Posted by dylbert

1. Win games you are supposed to win with Mike Shula's recruits.

2. Beat Auburn

3. Don't get embarassed by LSU

Nick Saban is too professional to not understand that he will not beat LSU with current talent. In 2009, when LSU returns to Tuscalossa, LSU should be afraid, be very afraid. Because all of Saban's talent will have departed LSU and all of the skill positions of Crimson Tide will be HIS recruits.

Saban almost won game with Shula's talent and did not get embarassed by LSU. Auburn ahead for successful season...

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by dylbert

Saban almost won game with Shula's talent and did not get embarassed by LSU. Auburn ahead for successful season...

i think saban and co will handle tuberville and the other tigers.

[ddthetide]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i think saban and co will handle tuberville and the other tigers.

maybe tubby hears the red-elephants stirring. look for him to hightail it to Tam.

one thing i'll bet for sure, the barners won't run over Bama in the 1st qter the way they have the last couple years.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by ddthetide

maybe tubby hears the red-elephants stirring. look for him to hightail it to Tam.

one thing i'll bet for sure, the barners won't run over Bama in the 1st qter the way they have the last couple years.

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yeah, i hear talk that several vacancies in the sec are in the offing...tuberville bailing would'nt surprise me in the least, especially when they wanted to dump tommy a few years ago.

i expect the tide will win this match up.