To the hindsighters of Tua's injury

He shouldnt have played bc strategically it would have lended even more credence to the "wow he really wasnt right for LSU and tweaked it more by playing that game" playoff argument.

Bama could have had their cake (make their quality loss argument even stronger) and eaten it too (do the right thing for Tuas future, won the game, get their QB of future more experience). Too bad Saban only cares about his players tangentially and will literally walk past their writhing bodies to go study film.

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Too bad Saban only cares about his players tangentially and will literally walk past their writhing bodies to go study film.

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That sounds like a boss move.

You of all people should appreciate that.

No I still remember Spurrier running Lattimore into the ground at SC and not giving a frick when the kid got seriously injured and lost his career. I was disgusted by it.

As crappy as Bama looked against LSU in the first half, he totally should have played some yesterday. Forget about the playoffs, they won't beat Auburn unless they improve and you don't improve if you don't play

Exactly my point. No one really cared until that point, otherwise the board would have had multiple threads prior to the game about his not needing to play because of his ankle. I didn't see any.

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Exactly my point. No one really cared until that point, otherwise the board would have had multiple threads

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wrong. There were many posts saying he should sit the rest of the year. Not threads but posts. Go find them if it means that much to you. You want someone else to do it for you.

Why would an LSU fan care enough to write whether or not he should play?

It just seemed like common sense to let him recover for their last big game. And also to add to the argument that he wasn't 100% for LSU.

I was actually glad when he started, as it seemed to take away one of their excuses for losing to LSU.

To me, the decision to play or not against MSU should have been between Tua, his parents, the med staff and Saban. If he he wasn't up to play, I'd put equal blame on each of them.

Oh well. Like Saban said after the half, "too bad."

As much as I dislike Bama and Saban, I don't know that I find huge fault with him playing one more series to finish out the half.

If you're gonna play, play. If he wasn't healthy enough to play, it should've been a group decision. If the group decision was, "when we get up by 28 points, we'll sit him," then do it. Otherwise, finishing the half doesn't seem crazy.

But it's an easy topic to pile on Saban, so why the heck not? He likes to apply pressure, I'm sure he enjoys getting a little.

I called in and told Pawl he shouldn’t play on Friday.

Sorry if you missed it.

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How many of you posted on here pre-game that he should not play?

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I have, said he should leave and let his agent pay a trainer to get him healthy. He has nothing to prove, and everything to lose, now that they loss the LSU game.

High ankle sprains do not heal while practicing and playing.

And because of him having that injury, he's going to have to over compensate and not try to re-injure that while exposing other muscles and bones, because he's a walking wounded.

Players owe programs nothing, just like programs owe players nothing. And they certainly don't owe the coaches a thing.