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#1 LSU +4.5 at #2 Bama (ov/un 43.5) Sat 8 ET, CBS

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Nutriaitch;2028846; said:
lots of talk about "missed opportunities" by Bama out there.

they missed some long FG last night.
why aren't more people questioning Saban after that game?

for years now, LSU fans have had to listen to all sorts of criticism of Miles.
if Les had continued to try FGs that were apparently out of range rather than punting and pinning them deep, ESPN would be all over him.

if Les had called for his 1 legged WR to throw a pass when his Heisman candidate RB was starting to gash the defense, he would have been roasted pretty heavily.

even sending in a hobbled Maze to return that punt was questionable.
him not fielding it was HUGE, but even if he had caught it, how effective could he have been on the return when he was noticeably limping?

Bama also got called a couple of times for breaking the huddle with 12 men.
The last one in overtime that forced Bama to change up their play calling in OT.


Saban is without a doubt a great coach.
But "mistakes" like the ones I listed above are the types of decisions/plays that the entire country has used as "evidence" of Miles' incompetence for years now.


last night, the "mad hatter" did not call a single "trick play". nothing that could be considered a "gamble". no "lucky fluke" calls.
just straight up football.
while the midget genius on the other sideline had a couple of noticeable gambles fail miserably.


I'm not suggesting that Les is a better coach than Saban, but i really think it is time to give the man some respect.

He now has a winning record head-to-head against Saban.
He is also the 1st coach since Spurrier in '00-'01 to beat Saban in back to back games.
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Agreed. I think Miles is a damn good coach....he's earned that respect from me anyway.
 
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Nicknam4;2028877; said:
I would LOVE to see LSU try to play in cold weather. :lol:
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The team has won all of their biggest games this year on the road or at neutral sites and you still aren't impressed?
You don't care where they play, you just want them to lose.

If chilly weather is your only trump card, you significantly discredit a team that has accomplished ALOT this year and a program that constantly competes at the highest level.
 
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Nicknam4;2028877; said:
I would LOVE to see LSU try to play in cold weather. :lol:
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Nutria thinking about playing Indiana "in cold weather". :lol:
 
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Woody1968;2028792; said:
Yeah, but it's always a criticism from the media that low scoring games in the big ten are only due to the conference being boring and offensively inept, whereas SEC games are only low scoring when it is two championship caliber defenses.

Not to take away from LSU and Alabama in this case, but the world is not full of absolutes.
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Yes it is.
 
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MaliBuckeye;2028864; said:
I'd love to see LSU/TBPU in the national title game, if only for the Les Miles angle.

That being said- can y'all please play for a championship somewhere other than New Orleans? :)
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I think y'all discount just how hard it is to set that whole thing up. :lol:
 
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BigWoof31;2028969; said:
The team has won all of their biggest games this year on the road or at neutral sites and you still aren't impressed?
You don't care where they play, you just want them to lose.

If chilly weather is your only trump card, you significantly discredit a team that has accomplished ALOT this year and a program that constantly competes at the highest level.
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I'll admit that I do not like LSU. :biggrin:
 
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BigWoof31;2028969; said:
If chilly weather is your only trump card, you significantly discredit a team that has accomplished ALOT this year and a program that constantly competes at the highest level.
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No the trump card is that at the end of the day they still have to live where the air smells like rotting flesh, the women are fat and the men look like they are made from potatoes.

None of which takes away from the fact that if Alabama had a QB that could hit wide open receivers the score would have been very different.
 
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Gatorubet;2028988; said:
I think y'all discount just how hard it is to set that whole thing up. :lol:
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So you admit that the BCS has set it up so that their precious SEC will make it to (and win) the BCS title game? I'm going to step out on a limb here and guess that if we dust for prints, we'll find ESPN has been behind the curtains for a long time. Jimmy Hoffa may have been there, too.
 
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Nicknam4;2029039; said:
I'll admit that I do not like LSU. :biggrin:
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Like and respect are two different things. LSU has some (not many) weaknesses but at the end of the day they're a strong football team and the type of team that Ohio State traditionally prides themselves on. Great kicking game and special teams, great defense, a strong running game and timely passing.
 
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Zurp;2029059; said:
So you admit that the BCS has set it up so that their precious SEC will make it to (and win) the BCS title game?
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Yes. We (the SEC) time our "being good" for only the Miami or Louisiana venues. We prohibit being good on Rose Bowl venue years, and only drunken incompetence caused the '06 UF team not to get the memo that time.

Also, we have a suck ray that we use on the ACC to keep them from using southern BCS venues in our good years.
 
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