AS I watch LSU and auburn

[Msubulldogfan1]

It's disturbing how visible the talent gap is between state and the rest of the SECW.

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[BoDawg.sixpack]

BYU just dropped to 1-3 so there's a possible road win.

 

[TBone.sixpack]

That was a helluva a goal line stand by the LSU D

 

[TheStateUofMS]

We've never been close to LSU in talent. There's about 5 teams as talented as them every year.

Auburn is always slightly more talented and sometimes vastly more when they have a few elite players.

To me, the gap is coaching. When you have horrible fundamentals and no discipline, it make the talent look bad. We had 90 penalty yards today. That's at least 7pts.

Coaching is awful and 4 straight years of new DCs and losing other coaches has cought up with us. Combine that zero leadership and you got the recipe for a dumpster fire.

 

[skydawg1]

We've never been close to LSU in talent. There's about 5 teams as talented as them every year.

Auburn is always slightly more talented and sometimes vastly more when they have a few elite players.

To me, the gap is coaching. When you have horrible fundamentals and no discipline, it make the talent look bad. We had 90 penalty yards today. That's at least 7pts.

Coaching is awful and 4 straight years of new DCs and losing other coaches has cought up with us. Combine that zero leadership and you got the recipe for a dumpster fire.

This season hinges on Mullen. Does he have any fire remaining for MSU or is he moving on. I think today he just didn't want to get embarrassed in his home region. (and he did anyway). We shall see....

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

We've never been close to LSU in talent. There's about 5 teams as talented as them every year.

Auburn is always slightly more talented and sometimes vastly more when they have a few elite players.

To me, the gap is coaching. When you have horrible fundamentals and no discipline, it make the talent look bad. We had 90 penalty yards today. That's at least 7pts.

Coaching is awful and 4 straight years of new DCs and losing other coaches has cought up with us. Combine that zero leadership and you got the recipe for a dumpster fire.

Really talking about the big uglies. They're a lot bigger than our big uglies. The hitting for both defenses is way more intense than ours. Could say that about the offenses as well. Overall intensity is better.

Might just be channeling my inner rugb right now

 

[00Dawg]

I just don't buy it.

There's a gap from Bama and LSU at most positions, and particularly when you factor in depth.
There's a decent gap at some positions with TAMU.
There's a gap from the payroll boys at UM at fewer positions, and none at others. UM would love to have several of our secondary players, and they and TAMU would both love to have Lewis, Simmons, Jefferson, Ross, Thomas, and another half a dozen young guys, and we'd love to steal some of their O-lineman and receivers, plus Garrett. Their systems taking better advantage of the talent they have is a coaching issue (although it's hard to say that when we have nearly 600 yards on offense).
I'd rather have more of our starters than Auburn's.
Ask me about Arkansas after tonight.

What we're missing right now is some talent on the O-line (see Rankin getting abused by a UMass DE), plus hustle (see Rankin jogging towards a tackler), want-to (how many arm tackles can Richie attempt in a game?), and discipline (see Jamal Peters). I generally don't like calling out individual players, but none of those guys are going to argue the point after they watch the film. We can still be a good team, but the switch is going to have come on early and stay on for 4 quarters.

 

[57stratdawg]

There's some pads poppin in this game.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Yeah we certainly

don't finish in the top 5 recruiting rankings, annually...