Ridley telling it like it is.

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"I was expecting to run the ball a little bit and put us a little closer to field goal range," tailback Stevan Ridley said. "That didn't happen. They also didn't call a run on the 2-point conversion (with LSU down 25-23 moments before recovering an onside kick). We're down on the goal line and need 2, and we decide (laughing) to throw two fades in a row? But I mean that's the game. That's not what coach Crowton wanted to call. That's out of my control."

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"I was wondering. I was expecting a timeout," Ridley said. "But we waste 17 or 18 seconds. I mean that's precious time that we lost."

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"For us not to win that game is really just kind of shocking," Ridley said. "We had that many things go the way we wanted them to (the 25-yard touchdown pass to Rueben Randle with 1:17 to play, the onside kick recovery and the 43-yard Hail Mary to Toliver), and we still lose. I mean to be left with a second left and not have a play called is just really something that we can't let happen again. We were unprepared for the situations that came up."

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Ridley said Miles needed to take the blame for the loss.

"The team, that's something that we needed to hear," he said. "Because there's a bunch of questions going around. People are wondering, 'What's the situation? What's going on?' But coach Miles, for him to do that, it says a lot, and that's why I look forward to playing for him in the future. This team's got to come together, period.

"Any head coach that does that in front of their team, in front of their assistants and comes up there and says, 'This was my fault,' I mean it takes a lot for somebody to swallow their pride and say that, 'I messed something up.' He did what he needed to do. There's nothing else that needs to be said by him. It says a lot about the person that he is. I respect that he said, 'This was my fault.' Coach Miles, he manned up and said he cost us the game. That's all you can ask for from him."

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