LOL, i'm sorry but this is just hularious. You only enjoy football conversation if its something positive about your team? Give me a break. This is a FORUM. F O R U M I enjoyed the poster's opinion and believe him to be 100% correct. Yes this team is 10-1. But still, NONE OF YOU....NONE OF YOU can dispute his claims about how nick saban coaches and how les miles can't even put a sentence together at a press conference. Listening to the guy on tv with my friends had them cracking up going "wow, how the hell are you guys 10-1"....
"F O O T B A L L C O N V E R S A T I O N". Those are the words I used. Let me know if that implies only positive things. I enjoy talking about the good & bad of football, including the coaches & players. I don't like hearing constant b*!ching from the same posters over and over again with no point other than to bash the coaches.
Why is it that most people call it luck when LSU wins a close game? The UGA game in 03 was close, but LSU dominated the entire game on defense exept for one screen pass that went for 95 yds. It was two great defenses that played great that day. There was no luck. Like the AU game this year, people say LSU was lucky cause AU missed 5 fgs. Well give AU the 5 fgs. But also give LSU the 2 fgs and 2 TD passes that were dropped in the endzone. LSU still wins. Now the worst thing Miles has done is not calling a TO after an INT. Hell, he made two bigger mistakes in that same game. 1. terrible coaching decision right before halftime. With time running out, and no TO left, Russell runs the ball and doesn't get OB. Have to tell your QB to throw it away. But then after that, instead of spiking the ball to stop the clock, Miles runs the FG unit out there with 8 seconds left and counting. Poor Decision. 2. About a minute and a half before that infamous TO call, a bigger mistake took place. With 2 minutes to go, Miles decides to run the clock out and play for OT instead of going for the W. Made that decision knowing his D was spent and couldn't stop UT all second half. CAN'T PLAY NOT TO LOSE IN THE SEC. Now Saban was and is not GOD. And I'm not a big Saban either. But Saban and many other good coaches don't look clueless on the sidelines. Miles does. Maybe cause it's his first year of his biggest coaching job of his entire career. But he's gotta change his ways if LSU is going to contend for a NC year in and year out. And LSU has the resources to do so.
Parso, Saban had good special teams. We never blocked kicks and we missed field goals and extra points sometimes, but Saban didn't ignore special teams. The Arkansas runback last weekend was probably the longest runback since before Saban got here. I don't remember anyone ever running one too far on us. It is nice, by the way, the way we keep returners from getting many yards.
There's always luck. Sometimes it has an impact on the game, sometimes it doesn't, but it's always there. So we had both good & bad luck. Fortunately, we came out on top & that's what matters. That doesn't mean luck wasn't involved. You can't assume just because Auburn would have made the 5 fg's LSU would have caught the TD passes etc. It could have happened either way. 1. JaMarcus has said that he didn't think & just scrambled. The play was for a first down throw. JaMarcus had thrown a clutch throw to win the game just one game before, why not put him in a position to try it again? Also, the refs screwed up by not giving us time to kick the fieldgoal. They are supposed to let you if you run the guys out within 30 secs of time running out - not the coaches' fault. 2. This was a tough call by the coaches. I'm not sure if I agree with it. Neither our offense or our defense could do anything. By going for it, you risk another interception that gives Tennessee the game in regulation. By going to overtime, you give your team an advantage by putting them in the student section endzone. I'm sure it was a difficult decision & obviously we now know how it worked out, but we didn't have that foresight at the time.
