re: Will Blackwell bashing Les and LSU on Twitter

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No I won't get over it. You don't trash a great man like Les Miles and think an apology will make everything better. frick Will Blackwell.

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So, what are you going to do, bash him daily forever to make yourself feel good? The only person who should really care about this is Les and he's got better things to do than stay mad over some player who is sour grapes bashing him and it wasn't exactly the worst thing I've heard someone say about Les. If you want to bash people, you should be angrier at your own fellow LSU fans. They are far worse than "he's nobody now" Will Blackwell. Bash the media. They are far worse than Blackwell. Find something worthy to be pissed about. This isn't it.

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Exactly. It was all smiles and hugs when we were running through the greatest season in LSU history.

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I'm not defending Blackwell at all, but that is flat out wrong.

People were not happy with the offensive production once Jefferson took over.

We rode defense and special teams those last games and went into the NC game hoping JJ could option us into beating Bama.

It's not Monday-morning quarterbacking to question the gameplan. It was a stupid gameplan from the start, and Les stubbornly didn't adjust it when it didn't work. Then he inexplicably quit in the third quarter.

That was a bad game that Les should feel bad about.

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what coach would put up with such idiotic demands from their players??? In what world is that reasonable??

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Maybe if the team was getting ready to play in the New Orleans bowl, but not the BCSCG. A player would have to be suffering from a mental break down to even think about confronting a coach of a 13-0 team with his displeasure over personal or offensive planning after the team just finished the regular season 12-0 and smoked Georgia in Georgia by five TDs.

T-Bob has said a number of times that nothing like that ever took place, but some cant let it go and have to dream up stuff beyond reason to explain the loss rather than just admit we got our arse kicked by a better team on that night.

Go away

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We don't know the plays that were called because all we saw was JJ or the RB running for their lives. I'm quite certain that's not the way the plays were drawn up.

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There is some truth there. Bama just had a phenomenal D. We knew that. However, I can think of a 3rd and 8 in the 1st half where we handed it to Spencer Ware. Ware had 16 carries in the 1st game against them with a 1.8 ypc average and his longest carry for that game was 6 yards. I believe he had 3 yards against them in 2010. Based on the track record - that was a bad call. I can think of another 3rd and 4 in the 2nd half where we ran JC Copeland who had 1 carry for 0 yards on the year. That was another really bad call on a pivotal down.

Then there was that punt in the 4th quarter down three scores with 3 and 1/2 minutes left in the NC...

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Again, Blackwell, Hebert, or anyone else that believes that Lee was the better option against that Alabama defense, which may have been the best of all time, is simply making an argument that has no history or facts to support it given his awful track record against them.

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JJ had played well against Bama and he was obviously option 1. But you can't always go on track records when you see things aren't working at all. You just have to try whatever you can and just see if you're screwed or not. Hell, if we had gone on track records, we probably would've gotten rid of Lee after his sophomore year because he wasn't looking good against anyone at that point and would have been screwed for most of the year in 2011. I never thought Lee would be that valuable to be honest. That first Bama game in 2011 was the first bad game he had all year. He was allowed to have that kind of game on the road against the best D. It happens. His track record for that year was excellent overall, but it seemed like it went out of the window real fast. He had limited action against Bama in 2010, but he came in and did well. You just never know.

We shouldn't have had to play them again after winning at their house and winning an extra game in the SECCG, but sh*t happens. Bama had a phenomenal D and played great so it would have been tough either way. Miles record has been great at LSU, but that just wasn't one of his coaching highlights.

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BigEZTiger

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Very solid and reasonable post


I do think Miles was in a tough spot though. Until the 4th when they went up 15-0, it was hard to give up the plan, as that one big play by the D/ST could have changed the game when it was 12-0.


But once that happened, it was a straight up feeding frenzy out there. At that point, how do you put Lee in, since his inability to handle Bama's pressure was the reason you went with JJ to begin with.


I said this after the game, but it would have been the EASIER thing for Miles to throw Lee in and just say "Well we tried everything!!!"

But he knew Lee would have been eaten alive. He gave the bashers amartyr at his own expense.


As great as AJ played, if at any point the D made a play I really think it would have gotten into his and Saban's head.

But feeling like they could convert third downs passing against us, even though they weren't scoring TDs, just built and built. Any other D would have folded but ours fought till the end.

The Bama D fed off of that too. They were pinning their ears back going nuts because their O kept us on our heels.

It was a cycle that we never broke,on either side of the ball.

Sucks, but that is what happened.

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We shouldn't have had to play them again after winning at their house and winning an extra game in the SECCG, but sh*t happens. 

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100% agree here

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Why some feel the need to continue to beat them up when they both helped LSU to one of our greatest seasons in history will always be a mystery to me.

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Why a player on that team would bash the coach in public is what's mysterious to me.

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Complete revisionist nonsense.

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GTFO.

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Ole Miss and Arkansas were the two best offensive games we played all year

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GTFO. Did you watch the Arky game? HoneyBadger broke that shite open, not JJ.

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The SECCG was a bad day by JJ against a very good defense, and we still won 42-10 with no turnovers from JJ. Not exactly time to panic and change the plan.

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JJ was so fricking terrible that game a fan literally died at half time in the stadium.

What happened to West Monroe guys like Reed, Whitworth, James, Banks? No class Mr. Blackwell. By the way, what does he do for a living? I wonder if playing football at LSU helped him in that regard?

Have you ever tried to play football against a high level opponent and that high level opponent knows what you are going to do before you do it based upon previous experience and game film?

You could give max effort, and it still wouldn't matter. Tip of the cap to Bama, they were very prepared for exactly what LSU was going to do.

Seriously.