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Title: "Did 21-0 cost LSU a title and its nerve?" Post by: Chechem on May 30, 2012, 07:35:00 AM http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/05/did_21-0_cost_lsu_its_nerve.html
Quote The damage from 21-0 may have been worse than we thought. We knew that Alabama had reduced the LSU football team to a confused and bickering pile of rubble Jan. 9 in the Superdome. When the starting quarterback takes the team nowhere and the former starter never gets off the bench and a player's father berates the head coach in the postgame press conference, the humiliation is more than skin deep. But that BCS Championship Game beatdown was almost five months ago. Time is supposed to heal all wounds, but it appears that LSU football has scars that won't heal. The evidence has poured out of the mouths of everyone from the chancellor to the AD to the head football coach. How shaken has LSU been? The chancellor and AD don't want to play Florida every year anymore. If they do, the head football coach doesn't want it to count in the SEC standings. Next thing you know, defensive coordinator John Chavis will come out in favor of a ban on tackling and a switch to flag football. LSU AD Joe Alleva and Chancellor Mike Martin told The (Baton Rouge) Advocate they were heading to Destin for this week's SEC spring meeting with one particular item on their agenda. They want to do away with permanent cross-division opponents in football. ... |