Cowherd: "I've seen LSU play 4 times. They are average. (He must have caught the MSU game on TigerVision) Their offense stinks." I don't mind comments like this, but he just comes accross as a Pac 10 elitist to me. He says LSU woudn't beat Minnesota or BC. Interesting.
I heard that same show...... he is nuts... before the season he was all over LSU now he has changed his mind
He could also have caught them on ESPN Gameplan. He might be pissed after backing them in the preseason then having them not perform up to his lofty standards...whatever they are. Really, I'm not sure there's anything newsworthy here.
May not be newsworthy. I don't get much LSU sportstalk here in Jacksonville, FL. I do get this guy for about an hour, and every day it's an SEC "roast". This guy's favorite word to describe the SEC. O-V-E-R-R-A-T-E-D
"struggled for 3 quarters against a poor Vandy team." As far as I am concerned, we didn't struggle. Struggling implies that Vandy is to be given the credit. We self destructed for 3 quarters. Vandy had nothing to do with it. That is a huge difference.
I hear Cowherds little diatribe. He was making a point about how no one of the 5 major conferences are clearly better than the others. But the substance he used was total garbage. What he basically said was a byprodcut of simple mathematics. He was going on about how they each have 'elite' or undefeated teams at the top, above average teams in the middle, and garbage at the bottom. Hey, guess what? When in-conference teams play one another, one team wins, the other one loses. Some teams are better than others, and thus, will beat those teams. You simply cannot have that many 'elite' teams because they eventually play, and beat, one another. What a genius. :dis: He is an extreme PAC-10 homer, no question.
He might be upset about this bit of news. He was reported as saying the PAC 10 had the most players in the NFL. Not according to this story: "The Southeastern Conference had 261 of its former student-athletes on 2005 National Football League Kickoff Weekend rosters, most of any conference in the nation. Florida and Tennessee each had 37 players on rosters, which tied for second in the nation, behind Florida State's 42. Georgia tied with Ohio State for fourth with 35 players while Auburn was eighth with 31 and LSU tied Notre Dame for ninth with 30 players on NFL opening day rosters. Using current conference alignments, the Atlantic Coast Conference was second behind the SEC with 231 players on NFL rosters. The Big Ten was third with 223, the PAC 10 WAS FOURTH WITH 188 and the Big 12 was fifth with 176 former players on NFL rosters."
Actually, what I heard him say was that all of the 5 major conferences were about even in terms of NFL roster representation. Still wrong, though.
Yeah, we struggled.........if not the score would have been 35-0 at the half. Missed field goals, drives stopped by penalities or fumbles......however it happens, it's called struggling. To me, the offense struggled against Miss. State the first half. We were up 17-3 at the break. To me, that wasn't enough. We better play better football all the way around or our struggles at times will show itself with an a$$-whipping this weekend. Good thing I'm gonna be in Vegas.
His rational was that the SEC has more players in the NFL because there's 12 teams; but, if you look at what teams these players are coming from, that argument doesn't hold water. If you take all the players in the NFL from Ole Miss, MSU, Arkansas, Vandy, Kentucky, and South Carolina out of the mix, the SEC still has more players in the NFL than the PAC 10.
