I just read that article a few minutes ago along with a few others at CFN, and I felt it was written to be funny. The entire article is written in a funny style, I assumed it wasn't supposed to be serious. Considering in another article by CFN published today they praised LSU for playing with a lot of heart in a bowl game, I didn't take the "Kentucky" jab as mean spirited.
I actually found the article itself kinda funny....especially the part right above that about NS interviewing for other jobs so he hadn't seen "that much" of OU and USC to say who was gonna win. Didn't care for the Kentucky remark too much, but it was meant to be funny.
What exactly did you want us to tell him in email? LSU fans have gotten the rep for pestering emails for the smallest things posted online. I personally don't think this guy's tongue in cheek comments warrent hate email. JMO
Yeah, we developed quite the reputation after last season. If anyone wants to send hate email, direct it to Ivan Maisel at espn.com. He's by far the worst I've read. In fact, I usually don't bother to read him anymore. He was the one last year that wrote the article right after the Rose Bowl (prior to the Sugar Bowl) saying that the National Championship game had already been played, and he's written other things over the last year tearing LSU down. He's quite the anushead. CFN is usually pretty cool, so I can overlook this one thing. They had an article at the beginning of the season that defended our National Championship and said we were the true National Champions. It was the only place I saw that written in the national sports media, so I gotta give 'em some props for that.
Well.. this guys is a prick... i would email him just to complain about him touching a keyboard... this guy has never given LSU its due in his little "funny" articles.. f*ck 'im..
I have to disagree. I get my national college football news from this site (mainly because of how fair the site and Fiutak are with LSU) and read these articles once a week (opting for cfn over espn every time) . . . I just don't see it the same way as you do. The name of Fiuktak's column is "Cavalcade of Whimsy". In the past season leading up to our BCS NC win last season . . . this is what Fiutak had to say about LSU: * Jan 6th 2005: "Dear Devery Henderson and all the LSU, players, coaches, fans and anyone who took part in the Bluegrass Miracle … Ha, ha, ha. Love, Kentucky." Dec 13th 2004: Fiuktak's Christmas present to schools . . . for LSU he wrote . . . "LSU: The NFL to lose interest in Nick Saban." Nov 30th 2004: "- Five players who probably should be the Players of the Year in their respective conferences, but won’t be: 5) LSU DE Marcus Spears" Nov 23rd 2004: "... LSU might be the shakiest 8-2 team in America." Nov 9th 2004: "Isn’t Wolf Blitzer the name of a linebacker position in LSU’s scheme?" Oct 19th 2004: "As Darrell Royal (or Soupy Sales) said, “luck is when preparation meets opportunity.” … Everyone was writing and talking about how Wisconsin got lucky against Purdue, USC got lucky against Cal, and earlier, how Auburn got lucky against LSU and LSU got lucky against Oregon State. Each team might have been fortunate, but using the word lucky implies they didn’t necessarily deserve to win, and that’s not fair. Each team made big plays when it had to." "… I want to know which coaches in the Coaches’ Poll would rather play LSU, Louisville, Florida, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State, Virginia Tech, Arizona State, Texas Tech, Notre Dame, Minnesota or NC State than Boise State." Sept 20th 2004: "Puke on the West Coast and spread offenses. ...Auburn had the ball inside the five against LSU with $25 million-plus worth of NFL running backs to work with and chose to throw. Twice." "Who really wants to win on a goofy rule? I’m not talking about Auburn's fantastic, gut-check drive to tie up the LSU game at nine; I’m talking about the somewhat silly personal foul penalty on LSU for jumping over the line that had nothing to do with John Vaughn’s missed extra point. Technically it was the correct call, but it would’ve been refreshing (albeit suicidal career-wise) if Tommy Tuberville had walked over to Nick Saban and the officials and said, “we don’t want to win on a chicken(bleep) rule like that. We missed the kick. Let’s put this thing in overtime and we'll win then.” You don’t beat a champion Sugar Ray Leonard over Marvin Hagler-style." "The LSU Tigers aren’t the co-defending national champions. That’s what everyone keeps saying, but it's wrong. LSU is the defending national champion. Period. I thought USC was the best team at the end of last year, the whiny AP media thought USC was the best team, and CFN had USC ranked number one, but it doesn’t matter; the BCS is what counts. The AP poll is just a component in the overall formula. It's fine if USC calls itself the AP national champion, but LSU is the actual 2003 college football national champion." Sept 13th 2004: "You’re Johnny Drama, you’ve always got a shot … For the theater and screaming that would ensue, I want to see Boise State/Fresno State winner, Utah, and Louisville all go unbeaten and then see what would happen in the wacky B.C.S. when a two loss LSU or Tennessee gets in instead." "Oh yeah, and no double dipping. You can't wear an LSU Tiger jersey and a Seattle Mariners hat. Don't be that guy." Sept 6th 2004: "If this column sucks, it’s not my fault … I can’t make an extra point either. No USC fans, you don’t get the 2003 national title all to yourself after LSU struggled to beat Oregon State." "Let’s not quite hand the crystal trophy over to Urban quite yet … To all of the media types who have proclaimed Utah a combination of USC, LSU and Oklahoma all in one, let’s just wait and see if Texas A&M gets any better. It’s possible the Aggies really are that bad." Aug 26th 2004: "The award winners will be … Rimington: Ben Wilkerson, LSU" "The first ten picks in the 2005 NFL Draft will be … 3) DE Marcus Spears, LSU" "Throw everything at the wall and hope something sticks: 5) The Chargers, Dolphins and/or Browns will offer LSU’s Nick Saban (new contract and all) anything he wants. This time the pro team won’t make the low-ball mistake the Chicago Bears did." "Random wackiness … After losing two of three road games to Georgia, Florida and Auburn, LSU fans, still angry about last year, will go ballistic whining about USC’s schedule." "The SEC will get by on reputation when it comes to respect from the national media. LSU and Georgia are two of the five best teams in America and worthy of the hype." "I’d like to see ... the main polls to have enough stones in November to rank a great BCS conference team with one loss ahead of an average unbeaten BCS conference team. Please don't rank an unbeaten West Virginia team that has, maybe, one really good win over Maryland ahead of a superior Georgia or LSU team that'll have one loss (unless West Virginia really is that good. Doubtful.)" Jan 6th 2004: "C.O.W. Question of the Week: The unfunniest human being alive is a) Tracy Morgan, b) Jim Belushi, c) me, d) Nick Saban, e) all of the above. Saban can obviously flat-out coach, but has there ever been a guy who accomplished more and seemed to enjoy it all less than Saban? The dude just won the Sugar Bowl, a share of the national title, and is the highest paid coach in his profession, yet after the game he acted like someone just told him he had to go sit through the ABC primetime lineup. If you can't have fun after the season LSU had, when can you?" "Somewhere, Michigan State fans are watching all of this and wondering how Saban went from a coach that couldn’t get a talented team over the hump to being the best coach in college football." "Human windsocks John Saunders, Terry Bowden and Craig James turned the Rose Bowl pregame, halftime and post-game into one gigantic USC sobfest, and then they dared to say before the Sugar Bowl that the Sooner-Tiger game was for the national title. Said James, “Oklahoma deserves to be here.” So if you love USC so much, who should’ve been out, LSU? Obviously that would’ve been fair." "Yeah, everyone wants to see a LSU-USC game, but before automatically thinking there should be another game after the bowls to determine the “true national champion”, just remember how unfair it would’ve been for Ohio State to have had to play another game last year against Georgia, USC or Oklahoma (imagine that controversy), Miami to play another game in 2001 against Oregon, and Oklahoma to have played another game against Miami in 2000." "No ABC, LSU alum David Toms doesn’t count as an interview with a celebrity." "Have LSU QB Matt Mauck with his glasses on and hot-shot movie director Steven Soderbergh ever been seen in the same place at the same time?" "If it makes you feel any better LSU fans, the APers didn’t exactly put too much thought in their final poll. If USC really is the number one team, then shouldn’t a loss to the best team in the country be forgivable? How could Michigan be sixth and Ohio State fourth when the Wolverines beat the Buckeyes to close out the regular season? How is TCU still a top 25 team over teams like Oklahoma State, Arkansas, Virginia, Auburn and Oregon State that had better résumé’s and some actually won their bowl games? How did Pittsburgh get more votes than West Virginia?" Dec 8th 2003: "Are you REALLY so sure that USC is number one? …Is USC the best team in college football? Maybe, but LSU might also be the best team in college football." "Announcers need to learn how to dog the team he’s covering. No one announcing an LSU game will say that Oklahoma and USC should be playing for the national title." "In hindsight, Georgia knew it didn’t have a chance against LSU when Dr. Pepper Challenge winner Chuck Bartlett turned out to be the game’s second best passer." * In the past year or so Fiutak has mentioned LSU 30 times in his "Cavalcade of Whimsy". By my count he made 11 positve comments about LSU, 4 negative comments, and 15 general comments (neither positive or negative to the program). I don't think Fiutak "has never given LSU its due". I don't see a national conspiracy against LSU. I see a program that is among the nation's elite and will have both positive and negative comments made about it's program. Of course Fiutak has not been all positive with LSU, but then again we shouldn't expect that either. I didn't see anything in the last year that I would have a problem with. I don't agree with everything he writes, but I do think it is somewhat petty to expect national writers to be LSU homers.
