re: What did you think of Herbstreit's commentary during the game?

Hat? He picked bama vs iregon for the bcs championship? He will never give lsu respect.

no clue

i missed a lot of the commentary watching the BSU-UGA game at the same time

What the talking heads say matters little. What we do on the field is all that counts. They get on the bandwagon when teams are rolling. Our reviews will depend on the results of our latest game. Some of our recent detractors will change their tune as we advance through the schedule and if we fall they wll sa "told you so."

Never thought I would say this, Herbie was actually pretty good last night.

I think Herbie was a pompous a-hole last night. Some people here must have not even had the damn volume turned up. He made excuses for Oregon from the beginning!

First Half:
1.)Didn't show one replay when an LSU player got injured.
1a) When two LSU players went down, he insinuated that they did so on purpose: "I find that mighty strange that two of them went down at the same time." - I was screaming before they went down at how the whole Oregon line chop blocked, but Herbie drops an accusation that LSU is faking injuries and doesn't show the replay which clearly shows them taking chop blocks to the knees.
1b.) The VERY next play Oregon gets flagged for leg whipping.

2.)L. James makes an 8 yard dash and they are ranting about how he's performing like a hiesman candidate (his average was 2.8 ypc at the time of this statement).

Second Half:

1.) Starts framing the situation as one in which Oregon loses because LMJ and K. Barner are injured.

2.) After mentioning how blazing fast Oregon is compared to LSU, he carefully chooses the word "out flanking" every time LSU turns the corner on a run because he's too chicken shite to admit that he was wrong and that LSU was faster than Oregon.

10 of Oregon's 27 pts came from LSU miscues / bullshite penalties in the first half, and an additional 7 came against LSU's second string linebackers / dline in the 2nd half.

My point? LSU wasn't lucky to hold Oregon to 27 pts as they'd like to frame the story, because Oregon had to pull everything they had and get a few huge breaks to get more than half of them.

Lastly, his post game review told a narrative that lsu won despite poor qb play instead of noting that won because they had GREAT rb play.

Herbie has a thing for TM7. He kept showing his love for him all night. It was deserved of course!!

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what the frick is the mesh point or whatever he kept repeating last night?

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The mesh point is the point where the qb sticks the ball in the rb gut on the read option. Its the split second where the qb has to read and decide to give or not.

Maybe it is because I hate the guy but all I heard was how Oregon last this player and that player from last years team and how LSU was faking injuries to slow the game.

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he did give us a lot of respect. Im sure it was hard for him to do, but he seemed to be on the LSU/SEC bandwagon from the beginning.

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Same thoughts here.

The "fake injury" and "hands on the hips" comments are S.O.P.

The camera operators know that if they can get a few players in one camera shot with their hands on their hips, their shot will get on the air.

Hilarious that they made the "tired defense" remark right as they were hitting half-time.

Where Mus and Herb really threw me was their unbridled love for De'Anthony Thomas. He was the find of the century, a stroke of genius to have him on the field... etc. Then he gives up the ball and it's, "Well, that's what you get when you push a true Freshman into the spotlight."

And Herb gave LSU the minimal amount of praise. In his mind, LSU took advantage of mistakes while not crapping the bed.

I still think he's a douche.