Our good friend Ivan Maisel just came out with his All-Bowl team and he surprisingly gave us some credit. Lavalais and Turner made the team, which I think are two excellent picks. I was hoping to see Justin Vincent on there, being a freshman and all, but Maisel had that guy from Georgia Tech. Can't argue with a guy that ran for 337 yards in one game, that is just flat out amazing. Overall, I think that was a fairly good representation from LSU. The only other I could think of would be Marquise Hill, maybe. Your thoughts?
How about Webster and Daniels, completely shutting down the Heisman winner and an all amercian wideout is pretty good, don't you think.
Yeah they could have put the entire defensive backfield on that bowl team. What LSU did in the secondary was unreal. I am curious as to who made it in the secondary. Where is the link to this bowl listing?
There must be some mistake, not one of the national individual award winners from the "best team ever" made the list!
While Maisel made reasonably good picks at CB (Poole for USC and the Virginia guy that shut down Fitzgerald), I think Corey Webster and Travis Daniels simply played even better than those guys. Remember that out of the 24 incompletions thrown by White, 2 were interceptions and 9 were blocked. Those are amazing stats. They simply had almost no open receivers all night. I would agree with Maisel on the USC guy at DE (3 sacks is impressive), but both Hill and Spears were completely dominant in the Sugar Bowl, even more so than Lavalais (although Lavalais played a role in their performance by demanding lots of double team blocking). They shut down the wide runs and screens, pressured White and blocked passes. But most of all, how do you ignore the fact that Spears made the game winning touchdown for the national championship?
