'Bama, LSU Lose Numerous Players

[JunkyardDog47]

The list of players declaring early keeps on growing, and both Alabama and LSU get hit very hard. Alabama loses Trent richardson, Dnat'a Hightower and Dre Kirkpatrick, along with 4 other Senior offensive starters and 4 other Senior defensive starters. 'Bama also loses a lot of depth. When you add everything up, the will lose 9 out of 18 players on their two deep roster offensively, and 10 out of 18 defensively.

LSU may be in worse shape than Alabama. Suffering from a poor offense to begin with, LSU now loses WR's Russell Shepard and Ruben Randle, along with 5 other starters. On defense, Michael Brockers and Morris Claibourne join two other Seniors leaving early.

Some think that this really opens the door for Arkansas, who lose 3 WR's and a lineman from their offense, but get hit hard on defense. Arkansas has a big schedule advantage next season, hosting both Alabama early (after two patsie warm up games) and LSU to finish the regular season. Thye Hogs do travel to Jordan-Hare to play Auburn after the A&M game, and go to South carolina, but the rest of the schedule is quite manageable.

Another SEC team to watch is Georgia, who does not get hit real hard by graduation, and has what most people view as the easiest schedule in the SEC, ducking Alabama, Arkansas, and LSU.

[countryboy7477]

Here is a shocker. Most teams lose players every year. Bama is losing no more than normal. Get over it. Bama lost one O lineman, Trent and wide outs that were replaceable to say the least.

[Muleriders]

Bama loses only 3 key players for next season and all three positions are in good shape with replacements. RB Trent Richardson, LB Courtney Upshaw and C William Viachos. RB is in good shape with Eddie Lacy, Dee Hart and Jalston Fowler....plus a stud recruit out of Mobile. Alabama's LB situation is loaded....C.J. Mosley, Nico Johnson, Trey DePriest, Jonathan Atchison, Tana Patrick and future star Adrian Hubbard. Center will probably be manned by All-American G/T Barrett Jones.

I really like the possibilities for the 2012 team. Solid defense. Experenced QB and offensive line. (Barrett Jones, Chance Warmack, DJ Fluker, Anthony Steen are all back plus TE starter Michael Williams)

Young receivers will get plenty of work this spring.

[JunkyardDog47]

The schedule, plus a very questionable offense without Richardson will take 'Bama out of the 2012 N.C. picture. They have to go to Arkansas and LSU, and play Michigan in Jerryworld. They also play 3 games out of 4 in a 4 week stretch, playing at Missouri, at Tennessee, at home to Miss. State, and then at LSU. After the LSU game, they get A&M at home. All of those teams are beatable, but the jobs gets tougher when you run them together like that. Their 2012 schedule is tougher than the 2011 schedule was.

As far as their offense is concerned, you are talking about a QB who could not make the team at USC, much less start. He is an average SEC QB at best right now. He does not compare to Tyler Wilson or Aaron Murray. He finished 53rd overall in passing, and that is not good. Give 'Bama a year to rebuild. I am going to go with Arkansas and Georgia in the SEC at this time, but we all know that it is very early. I am going to fade the heck out of LSU winning the NC in 2012-13. I will gladly lay the 3/1 to anyone who wants it.

[avalanche]

[QUOTE=JunkyardDog47;4825426]The schedule, plus a very questionable offense without Richardson will take 'Bama out of the 2012 N.C. picture. They have to go to Arkansas and LSU, and play Michigan in Jerryworld. They also play 3 games out of 4 in a 4 week stretch, playing at Missouri, at Tennessee, at home to Miss. State, and then at LSU. After the LSU game, they get A&M at home. All of those teams are beatable, but the jobs gets tougher when you run them together like that. Their 2012 schedule is tougher than the 2011 schedule was.

As far as their offense is concerned, you are talking about a QB who could not make the team at USC, much less start. He is an average SEC QB at best right now. He does not compare to Tyler Wilson or Aaron Murray. He finished 53rd overall in passing, and that is not good. Give 'Bama a year to rebuild. I am going to go with Arkansas and Georgia in the SEC at this time, but we all know that it is very early. I am going to fade the heck out of LSU winning the NC in 2012-13. I will gladly lay the 3/1 to anyone who wants it.[/QUOTE

JYD reality check besides USC and Oregon the Pac 12 has the likelihoood of being complete garbage next year. You keep mentioning all the players that LSU and Alabama are going to olose who do you think they are replacing them with scrubs where in reality their replacements for the most part will be 4 and 5 star recuits

[Muleriders]

Alabama will be better on offense than last year.

The Defense will be damn good...not as good as last season but......

Bama, LSU, Georgia, S. Carolina will be the top teams.

The SEC will be well represented in the national picture next season.

Plug out to Vanderbilt.....will upset some teams.

[Romanowski]

lsu will be preseason #1, followed by usc

lsu has depth like no other

the qb will be untested, yet a lot more talented than jefferson

[Muleriders]

You are probably right Romo, LSU has stockpiled some good players the past few years. I read somewhere that Miles said he was going to open up the offense with Mettenberger at quarterback. He said the passing game would be a bigger part of the offense than last season.

Many Georgia people think Mettenberger would be the Dogs QB now if he hadn't been kicked off the team. Murray is pretty dang good, but they claim Mettenberger was the better passer. Guess we will see next year how he pans out.

Good looking dog you got there Romo.