re: After sleeping on the game for a few days

I agree with nearly everything you wrote. A good post. However, you can only partially blame the coaching. And that's not making excuses for the coaches. They are to blame more than anyone else for the loss. However, if you caught some of the post game interviews with some of the players, they all said that the coaches prepared them for exactly what they got. I can't blame the coaches for the senseless penalties and for extremely poor execution by the players. They lacked the very basic fundamentals of the game that they learned in pop warner, camps, high school and all the way through present day.

You are exactly right about the team giving up. The coaches seemed so shocked by what was happening that they forgot to coach, and that is completely, and obviously, unacceptable. The only difference between the coaches and myself was that my jaw dropped to my floor while theirs dropped to the field. Etling and the other leaders on the team showed no leadership at all. And for everyone who keeps saying, "it's only one game. Get over it." Well...it's not just one game and I'm not f*****g going to get over it until the team starts playing LSU football. I still feel absolutely miserable over this game. I can accept a loss (sometimes anyway!), but this was no ordinary loss. I know the players are better than this. They know they are better than this. The coaches know they are better than this. I think we, the fans, deserve better than this.

With all that being said, maybe I'll work on being a better fan. I have to remember these are just very young men and they are going to make mistakes. This game was a 60 minute mistake, but I have to believe they will be much better than this going forward. To start calling for coach O to be fired and other stupid s**t like that though, is not being a good fan. So, I'm still a coach O fan, an LSU fan, a college football fan and a Louisiana fan, and I won't waver from that just bc of this loss.

Eric...good post again. I used it to launch my frustrations, so my apologies for that!