Entering his redshirt junior season, quarterback Garrett Nussmeier understands that there’s been a shift in expectations, and so far, he seems more than ready to face them head on alongside the 2024 LSU football roster.
LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier understands that expectations have been raised for the 2024 LSU football team
Ten wins are no longer the expectation for the 2024 LSU football team. They want more this year, and they’re more than willing to put the work in to make it happen.
“We’ve been talking about it since spring. We all know that the expectation has been raised,” quarterback Garrett Nussmeier said while speaking with the media earlier this week. “We all know the bar has been raised. We all know that we aren’t okay with just winning 10 games. I’ve said that before, and Will [Campbell] said it the other day.”
The purple and gold are coming off of two straight 10 win seasons under head coach Brian Kelly, and it wasn’t necessarily an easy thing for them to get to that point. Winning nine games in both regular seasons with bowl wins over Big Ten foes to end the year, getting to 10 wins felt like a major accomplishment for the program, especially when considering where they were just three seasons ago.
The team went 5-5 in 2020, while showing minimal improvement in 2021, getting up to just a 6-7 overall record. The two seasons were hard pills to swallow for a team that had just gone on to win the national championship in 2019 in about as dominant a fashion that you could imagine.
However, that’s all in the past, and entering year-three under coach Kelly, the team fells hungrier than they have in years, and in many ways, they finally seem to be getting that confidence back with each completed practice this fall camp.
“It’s not a result based thought process. It’s an expectation of how we plan to go about our daily processes,” the star signal caller continued after being asked about increased expectations. “It’s about how we want to act in the meeting room during fall camp, how we want to process what happened on the field and how can we transfer it over to the next day on the field. It’s how we attack each practice, each rep, each set. So, that’s kind of been our mindset, focusing on the now, but the expectation definitely has been raised.”
Quarterback Garrett Nussmeier is entering his first year as a full-time starter, but in many ways, it doesn’t feel like this is the case. As a redshirt junior, the Lake Charles, LA, product has been around the program, seeing both some major highs and some major lows along the way. In turn, the transition into becoming a leader has looked seamless up to this point, which could be exactly what the purple and gold needed.
This is a veteran roster all-around, and one that could experience quite a bit of turnover come the 2024-25 offseason. With that, they’ve identified this as the year for a potential playoff push, and while there’s certainly plenty of work left to be done, there’s little doubt that this 2024 LSU football roster has the right mentality to potentially make some magic by the time things are all said and done.
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