Coming off a 37-7 blowout loss at Mississippi State on Saturday, LSU fans are none too happy with their Tigers.

However, on his new show “Thinking Out Loud” on the SEC Network on Monday night, former LSU star Marcus Spears said fans shouldn’t be surprised.

Per The Advocate, Spears said mediocrity is the new normal for the Tigers, who haven’t been dominant on the national stage for a while now:

“LSU fans, as an LSU alumnus, we aren’t who we think we are,” Spears said. “We’ve become a mediocre football team, and a middle-of-the-pack, very average college football program. We have to stop believing that we are one of those teams that at the end of the year is going to be standing tall.”

LSU has a record of 47-19 (25-16 in SEC games) since losing the 2012 national championship to Alabama, which isn’t bad by any means, but Spears is right when he says that’s not elite:

“That’s mediocre,” he said. “We’ve got to stop thinking of LSU as what we thought LSU was. A 61 percent winning percentage over the last five years? We’ve got to do better.

“We are no longer a championship team.”

Granted, there’s still time to turn things around, and the Tigers are 2-1 this year, but Spears has a point — it’s time for the Tigers to prove they belong in the top tier of the SEC.

Watch the whole segment: