re: Departing players leaving on semi-bad terms

13-1......WHO GIVES A frick.

Dude - All season we rode the hype as fans, and so did the players.

9 January.

We were crushed as fans. These guys were seniors playing their last game, with several hundred times more effort invested in the season than we had.

I don't think they're disgruntled. They're pissed and they're coping. And they're young.

That's it.

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you are really stretching here dude. Not one player has stated or even implied that they are leaving on bad terms.

Didn't end the way they wanted but none of them are on "bad" terms

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I think it was a poor choice of words. It would have valid if he said "leaving with a feeling of disbelief and shell-shock".

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..better question is: will this fanbase EVER be anything other than pathetic, again?

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FIFY and the answer is no. We are a fickle bunch.

Just be grateful you're not a Penn State fan.

1st post so don't be so rough.
1) No fan is more hurt than the guys who were on that team and won't get another chance.
2) Leaving with a loss in a big game will stay with them the rest of their lives. I'm an old guy and still remember my high school team's loss in the state semi-finals over 40 some odd yars ago. So will the seniors.
3) I know for a fact that not all the posters on this board with LSU logos, or as their favorite team are fans. Some are covert agents of other SEC schools on here to cause what we used to call "mind-f***. They want to creat havoc during recutiting season, and their chances have been limited the last 2 years.

What a string of loser posts. The 1 in the 13-1 is the turd in the punchbowl. It ruins everything. Only losers spin it otherwise.

Welcome to the Rant

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i keep seeing people refer to all of these seniors who are coming out talking shite about miles, but i've yet to hear it

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LINK

cbssports.com seems to have heard it

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As historically dominant as Alabama's defense was in 2011, the consensus among LSU fans -- or anyone who watched the BCS national title game, really -- has been that the Crimson Tide got plenty of help in New Orleans from a Tiger offensive braintrust that didn't do their own team any favors. But as now ex-Tiger tight end DeAngelo Peterson has made clear with his comments at the Senior Bowl, it's not just the fans that feel that way.

"The game plan we were working on before the game, I don't think we used it," he told reporters after Senior Bowl practices Tuesday. "I don't think we used it ... I felt we were going to run all the plays we'd been practicing, but they really were calling none of it. I just think the playmakers on offense, they didn't really have a chance to make any plays. That's the big thing that bothers me. We didn't have the opportunity."

Peterson added that he wasn't alone in being frustrated.
"The play-calling bothered the whole offense," he said. "They were doing stuff that we never did all year. The game plan was to spread the ball out, get the ball to me, get the ball to Rueben (Randle), let Russell (Shepard) run the ball every now and then, give the ball to our running backs. In that game, Russell played like two plays, Rueben had like one ball, I had one ball ... I feel like if they had went to the game plan and given the playmakers the ball, they would have done something with the ball."

Peterson felt free to speak his mind during the season as well. But he isn't the first departed LSU senior to publicly question the offensive coaching during the Tigers' BCS meltdown. Quarterback Jarrett Lee said at his own all-star game appearance he "could have been given ... an opportunity to come in and get something going, you know, give them, Alabama, something else to worry about." In the game's immediate aftermath, guard Will Blackwell described the choice between Lee and starter Jordan Jefferson as a "pick-your-poison kind of deal" before saying the coaches "picked the wrong one."

The good news for Les Miles is that to-date, the Tigers still on LSU's roster haven't expressed such doubts in the media, sparing Miles the awkwardness of potential suspensions or other punishments. (Shepard might be viewed as the exception after temporarily declaring for the Draft on Twitter, but now that he's safely back in the fold, that teapot-tempest already appears over.) The bad news is that even if they haven't expressed those doubts publicly, the agreement between the LSU seniors suggests that silence doesn't mean those doubts aren't there. It doesn't help Miles that the seniors have a point: weapons like Randle and Shepard should have gotten the ball more often, Lee should have seen at least a series or two, the play-calling was completely unimaginative.

It's bad enough to lose a national title game that ruins what could have been one of the all-time great seasons in college football. But if the Tigers continue to struggle offensively in 2012 -- with Steve Kragthorpe and Greg Studrawa retained to run the offense for a second year -- and those quiet doubts are allowed to fester, the fallout from that fateful night in the Superdome could make that terrible defeat that much more terrible.

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