Just want to say this now
The game that worries me is not LSU (their coach is an idiot), but the week after: Arkansas
Right now everyone is saying the place we have to worry is in Death Valley, and I worry that the week after that with everyone celebrating homecoming there will be a letdown. Everyone forgets that last year after losing to Ole Miss when we should have been pumped we stuggled for a while in Fayetteville. You look at the schedule now and see it was 38-7 and think it was one of the many asskickings of 2008, how many of you remember we only put up 17 points in the first 48 minutes? And they were the worst D in the SEC last year (with 5 new starters so they will be better).
Their coach - Bobby Petrino many not be a fine human being, but knows how to coach (usually a prerequisite for not fine people to repeatedly get gigs). He was new last year, now he will have much more familiarity with everything. Plus he is not scrambling to replace Darren McFadden and Feliz Jones this year. Almost everyone on offense is coming back, the immortal Casey Dick is gone at QB, but they have some new hotshot kid who will have played Georgia, Bama, Auburn and Texas A&M by the time he gets to Gainesville - plus he looked a okay in a couple of starts for Michigan in 2007.
I'm not saying I expect us to lose to the Razorbacks - they are not that good objectively, but I am worried. If we are up for the game, no problem. However as I said before in the SEC the constant grind of pretty good teams can catch badly on any given Saturday.
Right now everyone is saying the place we have to worry is in Death Valley, and I worry that the week after that with everyone celebrating homecoming there will be a letdown. Everyone forgets that last year after losing to Ole Miss when we should have been pumped we stuggled for a while in Fayetteville. You look at the schedule now and see it was 38-7 and think it was one of the many asskickings of 2008, how many of you remember we only put up 17 points in the first 48 minutes? And they were the worst D in the SEC last year (with 5 new starters so they will be better).
Their coach - Bobby Petrino many not be a fine human being, but knows how to coach (usually a prerequisite for not fine people to repeatedly get gigs). He was new last year, now he will have much more familiarity with everything. Plus he is not scrambling to replace Darren McFadden and Feliz Jones this year. Almost everyone on offense is coming back, the immortal Casey Dick is gone at QB, but they have some new hotshot kid who will have played Georgia, Bama, Auburn and Texas A&M by the time he gets to Gainesville - plus he looked a okay in a couple of starts for Michigan in 2007.
I'm not saying I expect us to lose to the Razorbacks - they are not that good objectively, but I am worried. If we are up for the game, no problem. However as I said before in the SEC the constant grind of pretty good teams can catch badly on any given Saturday.
posted by El Breto @ 12:50 PM
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