Late Night Thoughts: Was 1/9/12 worth it?

Forever grateful for Les. but yes. We are not 2019 champs if we win in 2011.

1/9/12 was Illegitimate

1/9/12 represented an era of LSU football that was fools gold. When Saban left, Miles inherited an insane amount of talent, coupled with an insane football atmosphere. The first half of Les’s career, he wasted a 2005, 2006 and almost 2007 roster. In that time frame, he should’ve gotten 2 titles but luckily walked away with 1. 2011 wouldn’t have happened unless Saban was there. No other coach would’ve beaten us at the end of the year but Saban. Saying that, Saban changed CFB and it took a few years for other schools to catch up. Les could have closed that gap much sooner but changing his offense but he refused to change. That is what held LSU back because the offense wasn’t bad, it was awful and because it was awful, the roster couldn’t compete with elite programs.
1/9/12 had to happen for LSU to finally get angry enough to not only fire Les but also Alleva and get rid of F King Alexander. That whole “leadership” was a black cloud over LSU that choked the life out of our program. Les stagnated our football program while Alleva and King destroyed the moral of the fan base. 2019 had to happen to breathe life in to the football program and fan base. For the first time in a long time, LSU football, it’s leadership and the fans are finally united and now we can compete w the elites.

1/9/12 had nothing to do with this season.. nothing.

For me personally, the rewarding of Alabama for losing their division, confirmed what I had come to believe after Cam was allowed to play in 2010, the "sport" has been compromised and it's just about the money generated. Nothing is more important than the revenue, not amateurism, not player health, nothing.

That said I enjoyed last season and will continue to reflect on it for years.

And if and when O falls to 7-5 I want him fired like all good LSU fans.

I don’t think we achieve 2019 without the 1-9-12.

Les would have coached as long as he wanted if he won that game.

The Will Wade situation was worth it last year too.

The fact that LSU could have gone 2-3vs 0-5 vs Alabama afterward is tough to deal with.

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I also look at it as a blessing in disguise you could say. I’m sure I’m not the only one here who holds that belief or way of looking at it all.

The magnitude of what happened this season will continue to set in for probably years to come as people and the media will regularly refer back to it. You also can’t ignore the glaring swagger this team carried in which will never be replicated. Even our fricking highlight videos were Hollywood worthy. If you’re in the group of people who believe the 2019 LSU Tigers are the best college football of all time, it took 150 years for that to finally occur. Just think about that.

I think it was worth it.

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Anyone who thinks the 2012 BCSCG was a blessing in disguise for LSU is a fricking moron.

It's that simple.

If you think that the 2012 BCSCG was a "blessing in disguise" or "was worth it" for LSU, then you are a fricking moron.

I think 1/13/19 still would have happened, in a different way perhaps.

However, despite 1/9/12, I really think that everything would have changed had we hung on and beat Bama in '12 reg. season. Remember we won our final three games after that and had a shot at going to Atlanta and then the NC game, where we probably would have beaten Notre Dame.

Who knows what would have happened after that? Recruiting might have changed, Miles may have hired different coaches, including an offensive guy, and we may have had better QBs sign after Mett left.

So I think the dynamics/space-time continuum would have been different more if we had beaten Bama in 2012 reg. season.

Now to really blow people's minds, imagine if pilot Lewis Benscotter had caught the altitude/loss of oxygen problem in his private plane and saved both himself and......Bo Rein in January, 1980?.....

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