LSUJeremy

Would you rather go 8-8, or 9-7, or go 5-11, or 6-10?

We have an extremely tough schedule this year as everyone knows.

While I abhor the idea of advocating losing, looking at the big picture, I don't see this team as being a viable playoff contending team (mainly because of our schedule and because we're just not where we need to be defensively) and our roster still needs a lot of work.

I wasn't one on here that was overly thrilled by our draft, especially taking a guy from Bloomingdale's in the 4th, but I've been pleasantly surprised/impressed with some of our draft picks (Ninkovich, Evans, kinda sorta Harper, and Halston of course).

What I know now after two weeks is that we have some guys who are really good talent evaluators. With a .500 record or slightly above looks nice, our picking would be somehwere in the middle.

I feel dirty for saying this, but like I've posted in previous threads, give me a hard working, competitive team that at the end of the year winds up with a 1st rd pick in the top 10. I now feel like I can fully trust that our staff will put together another strong draft, and coupled with free agency, I feel pretty good about what our team will look like in '07.

I know I'm getting ahead of myself looking to 2007, but we are rebuilding/building for the future.