re: LSU lost to a better team

It was a bad game plan that never got adjusted on either side of the ball. That's what makes it so bad. Yes the players performed poorly but it's up to the coaches to get them to snap out of a funk and get aggressive. Ask the MSU players who has the better defense. It's not even close. They had one guy getting off on a great day and never made the decision to go offset or I formation so the FB could chip him. They never put nine men in the box defensively to slow down the read plays and never called any run blitzes that I saw. Other than QB(which admittedly is the most important position) Au does not have a huge advantage at any postions. Defensively they have only one player who would definitely start for LSU. They were certainly the better team on Saturday but damn sure don't have as much talent across the board as LSU. Newton himself commented post-game about all the "missed tackles" they had not seen on film of LSU. In other words Au themselves were surprised at how well things went for them.