re: Will Blackwell bashing Les and LSU on Twitter

probably already mentioned, but i noticed he has since apologized several times for his tweets and simply admitted he was bitter.

as is the case. at least he knows this much.

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this is not correct??? I thought most people were saying this before Cam came here

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He only coaches the losses. You should know this by now.

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No matter how bad he was against Bama the 1st time, he should've gotten a shot because that's what a backup QB is there for.

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Yet lee does radio spots for LSU and has never bashed Les or the program. Why? Because he's not a bitter bitch.

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Now calling for Kingsbury over Les is a bit naive, but I wish some of you would stop putting Les on such a pedestal to cover your insecurities. Les is a good to great coach with serious fatal flaws in his coaching style and ability. He's not perfect. He's done well here, but I think people overvalue his win totals just a bit.

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Over value the best coach lsu has had? Who would do that?

Look you just described every fricking coach in america. You dont think sean payton cost the Saints? frick he cost them a whole season.

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In the end, I like Les and am glad he is LSU's coach right now, but I have no illusions to the fact that he is a flawed coach

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You must be though, to think he is the only flawed coach. This goes to my whole thing about Les. I dont care if you bash him, but to sit here and say we could do better is stupid. yes Saban is the best coach in the country, but id rather have the guy that we know is a close 2nd or 3rd instead of blowing the whole damn thing up and hire a coach that has proven to win less games than him.

I could go on and on, but the fact is we have a damn fine coach and we would be stupid to let that walk out the door. For every argument against him, les has gone out and fixed it. You cant even argue hes getting paid too much anymore. IMO he gets paid too little compared to other coaches in our division. Then you see what our programs worth, and he only gets a minute fraction of that.

Don't start no shite won't be no shite

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Will Blackwell @WillyB60 · 1h
I would trade LM for Kilff Kingsbury right this second

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Wow, good thing he's not in charge. What an idiot.

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@WillyB60: @Estew614 players consistently pleaded to change things up (before and during game). Only responses were negative 

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Not that I buy this scumbag's claims for a second, but just for the sake of argument, I wonder how Saban, or his dream boat KK for that matter, would react to a bunch of his players "pleading" to change his gameplan??

Saban has proven that after an embarassing loss, he would go on national TV and blame those players for that loss by not "buying in" or being open to the "process".

Also, the players pouting about the gameplan and not believing in it could certainly contribute to the failure of that plan's execution, no? Somewhat of a self fulfilling prophecy.

I'd love to know how the game would have gone had those certain players actually had the respect to listen to their coach and gone onto the field and tried to execute the plan to the best of their abilities rather than pout.


Also important to note that the plan that they were allegedly so desperate to change is the exact plan that got us to 13-0 and our first undefeated SEC title in over 50 years against one of the most difficult schedules of all time.


I personally don't buy that the players didn't believe in the plan. It's revisionist history.

It's so much simpler than that. The plan, as it was all year, was to limit turnovers while our historic defense and special teams assaulted the other team's offense until they made mistakes and our powerful run game wore out their defense. Period.

The plan gave us the best and most domibant season in LSU football history. Easily.

So yeah, let's change it up


If there was some mysterious mental drag on the team leading to 1/9, again it is fairly obvious.

Aside from the disrespect of having to play a team they had already beaten, Tyrann Mathieu, who was the unquestionable spark plug of that amazing run, going back to the Cotton Bowl and PP7 hand picking him to wear #7 as the leader of the D leading to his explosion onto the national consciousness in the Oregon game, has openly said he was not himself going into The Rematch due to off field demons he was battling.

Mathieu's emotional absence trickled down to the entire team, and reports of the struggles of another team leader in Lee, simply led to a different, less ferocious team stepping onto the field on 1/9.

Combine that with the fact that we happened to be facing another historically great team that night, one that played exceptionally well, and that is how 21-0 happened.

And even with all of that, the game was 9-0 at halftime, and 15-0 in the 4th quarter.

Had the defense or special teams had that one huge momentum changing play, the way they had multiple times in EVERY SINGLE GAME of the season, the plan would have still been in position to work, EVEN IF the players didn't believe in it. Imagine if they had


So for all of those reasons, frick you Will Blackwell. I wish Miles had never saved and made your brief career by bringing you over to the OL.

Maybe then someone else, someone capable, would have given the plan a chance to succeed on 1/9, because it is clear from the film that you did not.


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