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Sportspsmanship
Posted on 10/20/08 at 7:37 am
Posted on 10/20/08 at 7:37 am
This may have been discusses but....
With college football set on letting championships be set up by people voting rather than playing the game on the field. does sportsmanship have to take a backseat at some situation.
Reason I ask in the 30 point loss to Fla. will be remembered at the end of the season is LSU is in a voting battle for a top spot. Last year the beat down we put on VT probably put us in the NC game.
Question is should we have went for the score at the end of the game? I personally don't think we should have b/c I'm not sure it would have mattered and I wouldn't like taking the chances of something bad happening, but I've heard a few people saying we need convincing wins to hide the Fla blowout. Still I think taking the knee was right, not b/c it was in good taste, but b/c the risk is 100 times higher than the reward. Your thoughts
With college football set on letting championships be set up by people voting rather than playing the game on the field. does sportsmanship have to take a backseat at some situation.
Reason I ask in the 30 point loss to Fla. will be remembered at the end of the season is LSU is in a voting battle for a top spot. Last year the beat down we put on VT probably put us in the NC game.
Question is should we have went for the score at the end of the game? I personally don't think we should have b/c I'm not sure it would have mattered and I wouldn't like taking the chances of something bad happening, but I've heard a few people saying we need convincing wins to hide the Fla blowout. Still I think taking the knee was right, not b/c it was in good taste, but b/c the risk is 100 times higher than the reward. Your thoughts
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Posted on 10/20/08 at 7:40 am to TheEye
imo at some point it does have to take a backseat. Other teams feelings< our shot to impress the polls.
Posted on 10/20/08 at 7:41 am to TheEye
Texas Tech head coach, Mike Leach put it best yesterday in an interview, "More is better than less, because some people are going to look at that. If you don't like it, stop it."
I agree 100%.
I agree 100%.
Posted on 10/20/08 at 7:46 am to TheEye
Sportsmanship>>>>>>adding another TD on the off chance that it gets us to the BCS after we win out this year.
Posted on 10/20/08 at 10:14 am to TheEye
If we want to get into huge bowl games and the NC game, we definitely need to let sportsmanship take a back seat. Everybody knows that rankings are decided on scores for the most part. The voters do not have the time to watch every single game, or even the highlights to every single game. They will end up looking at the score and overview of the game and make a decision on where they place certain teams.
31-17 would have looked MUCH MUCH better than 24-17
31-17 would have looked MUCH MUCH better than 24-17
Posted on 10/20/08 at 10:31 am to TheEye
Yes, in general, you should RUTS if you have the chance, considering the BCS.
BUT Saturday night was not that situation. We were only up a touchdown and the game was still in the balance. You should never risk losing in order to RUTS.
I really think we should have been taking a knee for the entire last series.
Posted on 10/20/08 at 10:36 am to TheEye
quote:
Reason I ask in the 30 point loss to Fla. will be remembered at the end of the season is LSU is in a voting battle for a top spot. Last year the beat down we put on VT probably put us in the NC game.
The only difference between our loss vs. VT is that we might get a chance to avenge our blowout loss. Although to fully avenge it with the voters we might be asked to beat the Gators by 20 plus.
Posted on 10/20/08 at 10:49 am to TheEye
quote:
Question is should we have went for the score at the end of the game?
No. We go for the win at the end of the game.
Posted on 10/20/08 at 11:40 am to TheEye
Don't all head coaches to their teams - play for 60 minutes! So they should understand.
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