Originally Posted by
Lord McBuckethead
Well it has been a long wait. Seems like it was 600 days ago we laid a turd in back to back games against Ole Miss and TT, but here we are. The third year iteration of the Leach system. I am not exactly sure what we are going to get this season. As mentioned before, I believe our season hinges on OL play once again as it almost always does with every team. I for one is tired. Tired of us entering the season with national media just really not paying attention to us. From SEC Network all the way through all the pickers out there, no love whatsoever. Picked damn near the last in the SEC, with only Vandy and Auburn there to break our fall. Well, we can all say that is bullshit, and we almost always do better than picked, but the proof is in the on the field WINS. Win, and all things will come. Lose, well you just proved them all correct.
Here is how I see the year.
1. We beat all of our non-conference foes. WE are better than all of them. We have the better roster. WE have the better coach. We are stronger, faster, and deeper than all of them combined. Time to start acting like it. We beat Memphis by 24. We are going to be able to name our score against the other 3. No respect is given here. We are better, we will execute, we will win, handily.
2. SEC wins - Auburn, LSU, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Ole Miss. Those are the games I am saying we win. Auburn is terrible and their coach will be fired before Halloween. Kentucky, well they lost their WR and their QB is not very good. We are better on both lines than their counterparts. We win this one by 10 at their place. Arkansas, surely in year 3 Leach can dial something up for 17s sake. LSU, we are better and they know it. We should have beat them last year but we will this year. First year head coach, coaching against Leach. We will score 2 tds just because they decided to run man to man against us, which I don't think anyone can successfully. At least not in the NCAA. Ole Miss, hopefully Leach can put it on them this year. This, of all the ones listed above, is probably our hardest game. No idea what they are going to be like. Maybe, they enter the game 5-6 on a 6 game losing streak, and we put the final dagger in them. Who knows?
3. GA and Bama - Both are tough. Mistake free football and we could get one of them. But they both excel at forcing mistakes.
4. Texas AM - We went into the Home of the 12th man and took their souls last year. We get them at home this year. Their QB does not scare me one bit. Kind of like Kellen Mond, just kind of a guy even Jimbo never trusted to win the game for them. I would like to think we handle business in this game, but it all depends on who comes out and takes charge. This game will be fun to see.
So 10-2 or 9-3. Time to stop being timid. Let's be ready to execute and attack. Hailstate.