The refs weren't on our side; I think Vegas was smiling tonight. Were those targeting calls legit, because neither looked malicious to me. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck.
Im not. I give Aranda a pass as this was his first ass beating as a tiger. Plus we are missing most of our Dline. I wouldn't be surprised to see that unit vastly improve as the season goes. Canada should have learned tonight all he needed to for SEC play. If he rolls out that same fucking shit for the next few games, im off the train.
Our defensive line in this game became as thin as our OL. Hurts to lose Rashard Lawrence, then Ed Alexander and then the backup gets tossed. We also weren't able to get Tyler Shelvin cleared. That tremendous youth on defense was exposed tonight. And the vets like Donnie Alexander are football dumb. That late hit and he was suspended remember.. not a Duke Riley or Debo Jones with that kid.
Absolutely shocking. Honestly, I can't even remember the last time we got such a thorough beat down. An incredibly bad omen. Does this remind anyone of Coach O's time at Ole Miss as a non-interim HC?
First things first. I'm not going to blame Orgeron for accepting his dream job. The person that needs to go first is Joe Alleva. He fucking bumbled Les 2 seasons ago at the end of the season and then his "exhaustive" head coach search landed us a guy whose last SEC stint was one of the worst in the history of the league.
P.J. Fleck. In a heartbeat. Do you look at up and coming hot coaching prospects who have a proven track of winning or retread someone that failed miserably on the SEC level? Hindsight is 20/20...I get that. But we should look at our historical hindsight and try to learn lessons before we try to repeat the same mistakes. Instead of rolling the dice like we did when we hired Saban, we went with the "don't rock the boat" philosophy and went with the "safe" hire after we got played by Herman. Instead of admitting things were broken, we opted for the "don't try to fix it" mentality. I look at Coach O as Jerry Stovall version 2.0. When we replaced Cholly Mac [who was at the time the winningest coach in LSU history but was fired because he couldn't beat Bama (sound familiar?)], LSU fed the fan base some red meat to satisfy their hunger for blood by hiring a "Louisiana Son" to bring us to the promised land. Rinse, lather, repeat. We got the red meat to satisfy the hunger to throw Miles to the lions in Orgeron.