This is my point. You are acting like there was only one event that decided the entire game. I am saying that there were several factors that contributed to our loss: some of which were under our control, some of which were under UCLA's control, some of which were under the NCAA's control, and some of which were under no one's control. And the point I am making is that if you add up all the factors under our control, all the factors under UCLA's control, and all the factors under no one's control, LSU still wins that game about 5-2 because we have 2 or 3 more home runs. But when you also add in the factors under the NCAA's control (specifically, the ridiculous field dimensions and positioning), then we lose because those should-be-homers are now long fly outs.

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We didn't rely on them all year so why would we in a bigger stadium in Omaha?

That was MY point; we weren't relying on them, but they are supposed to be a part of baseball, and were a part of our overall excellent baseball performance all year. When the stadium dimensions essentially removed them from the game that hurt our performance. That was one factor in the outcome of the game, and it was a significant enough factor to have made the difference in a game as close as that one turned out to be.

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LSU fans have a very bad habit of blaming everything in sight on a loss instead of understanding that we just didn't play well enough to win. If we did we wouldve won

That statement only works if you believe no team has ever, once, in the history of sports, been denied a victory unfairly by factors outside of its control that should not have been involved. Referees, stupid (and unfair) rule changes, cheating, and many other unfair events have cost thousands of teams victories in games that they did indeed play well enough to win. Again, you are defying the possibility that multiple factors can be decisive in a game.

Example: Team A hits a ground ball with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th and is throw out at 1st but the umpire misses the call and calls the runner safe. The next batter hits a ground ball, and Team B commits its first error allowing 2 runs to score, losing the game 2-1. Now, is Team B's 2 run error a decisive factor in the outcome? Yes, because without it they would have gotten the 3rd out and won 1-0. Is the umpire's bad call a decisive factor in the outcome? Yes, because if he'd gotten the call right the game would have ended with Team B winning 1-0. The fact that they had a chance to win but blew it with an error does not in any way lessen or change the fact that they got screwed out of a win by the ump's bad call. Team B did in fact play well enough to win the game -- going error free for what should have been all nine innings -- but lost it.

Many LSU fans do complain very stupidly, particularly on this site. But many LSU fans are also unfairly derided as "whiners" by people who fail to understand (or at least recognize) the concept of multiple factors in causality. Some factors are legitimately part of the game, some are not. When those that are not affect the outcome of the game, that is legitimate reason to complain about the situation.