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you are just making stuff up. In his LSU career, Drew Alleman was 0/4 from FGs of 50+ yards. If the line of scrimmage is the 33 yard line, that would make it a 50 yard field goal attempt.

That is why I didn't use it as a definitive statement. Do you think he had a better shot at hitting that field goal or converting the 4th and 12 against arguably the best defense in the country? Why did we attempt a longer field goal on the following drive when it was a manageable down (4th and 4) if Les didn't think he had the leg. The youtube video has it as a 47 yard attempt. If Copeland doesn't make the worst play of his career, we score a TD there too.

Not only that, Bama was expecting it and came out in Safe coverage with outside ends and safeties set up outside. Gotta take a timeout there.

LINK - even the announcers call it out. They pinned us inside the 9 there when we could have tried to pin them inside the 10 and get great field position the next drive or attempt to put another 3 on the board.

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So your comment that trying a fake field goal, as opposed to attempting a 50 yard FG with a kicker that NEVER once made a FG in his entire career that was 50+ yards, against Bama cost us winning a National Championship is really stupid.

If he didn't have the leg, we should have played the field position game. Alabama scored a TD on that possession despite getting the ball with 1:08 left.

Where did I say it was JUST the fake field goal either? I believe I listed several other plays. All the plays had a negative impact on the game for LSU

The coaching staff shot themselves in the foot that game, because they put together a near perfect game plan, prepared the team, and just let it slip away.

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Posted by PurpleAndGold86

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Posted on 6/12/14 at 7:56 am to TigerBait1127

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is why I didn't use it as a definitive statement.

You did use a definitive statement when you said it cost us the National Championship.

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Do you think he had a better shot at hitting that field goal or converting the 4th and 12 against arguably the best defense in the country?

We didn't have much of a shot at either apparently since he was 0/4 from that distance in his career.

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Why did we attempt a longer field goal on the following drive when it was a manageable down (4th and 4) if Les didn't think he had the leg

Must be nice to look back on everything in hind sight. I doubt that Les thought that situation would creep right back up and it is pretty tough to attempt a fake field goal on consecutive offensive possessions now isn't it?

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If he didn't have the leg, we should have played the field position game. Alabama scored a TD on that possession despite getting the ball with 1:08 left.

He didn't have the leg. The attempt before the half was no where in the vicinity of making it through the uprights. If you want to say that was a stupid call fine, but the other one didn't cost us a National Championship. Really didn't even slightly contribute.

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Where did I say it was JUST the fake field goal either?

You listed that and the generic taking the ball out of Mett's hands. I never said it was the only thing you said. I said that saying that fake FG in any way cost the National Championship is just dumb. It was all a good try though.