I really want to quote your new sig and take full credit for it...Now you get my vote for best avatar......and best sig !!!:thumb :thumb:
So...after 7 pages of speculation, does anyone know any rumors of what came out of the "players-only meeting"?
Of course, most of this was said after that pig underwent the makeover, but this was said Saturday after the game. That's what I was talking about when I said he DID take responsibility. But I do understand what you're saying.
I would bet penalties were top on the list. I wonder if they will make a play to force miles to play lee as qb after jj's complete failure as leader of this offense. If they said in one voice they wanted lee how would the coaches take it. Will the coaches say ok let's roll with lee or will the ring leaders be marched out to the firing squad. I would bet our top rated d was all over our offense. I wonder what player got it the worst. What if they called for crowtons head on a stick. I hope it was a call to arms for players to step up instead of a witch hunt. Lots of ifs. We shall see. I know that jl gave this team something to believe in. Will they come together or implode. I say they rally behind jl and roll the gators. Take away all of the penalties and we win the west
Every damn week for the last three years we hear Miles promising changes. Yet every year LSU regresses. If they do show improvement in a game in one facet, another facet is sure to pick up the slack. Its painfully obvious he has lost control of the situation. There is ZERO excuse for saturday.
So, take it FWIW...I gleened it from a very unreliable source...that sometimes is reliable. TOS. Basically, KShepp, Tolliver, and a couple others did most of the talking. The jist of it was screw the media, we have to rally around each other and the coaches and come together as a team. That's paraphrasing in the worst kinda way, but that's all I got. They call it a players only meeting for a reason I guess.
Gators had their Players Only meeting Sunday as well... (Jax Times-Union article today) GAINESVILLE — Nobody made any promises. Nobody screamed and yelled. But while the atmosphere after Saturday's loss to Alabama was nothing like it was after the 2008 loss to Ole Miss and the 2006 loss to Auburn, leadership and a sense of resolve emerged in the Florida locker room in Tuscaloosa. Whether it will have the same effect as the incidents in '08 and '06 did won't be known until Saturday, when the 14th-ranked Gators play host to 12th-ranked LSU. "We beat ourselves," left guard Carl Johnson said Monday. "We did it last year in the SEC championship game. For us to have the year we worked so hard during the offseason to have, we will have to literally win every game from here on out. That was kind of the message. "We do this every year. We're tired of doing it. It should never happen. We should never have to lose for a wake-up call. It should already be there." Four turnovers, one score in four trips to the red zone, and allowing the longest punt return in the Urban Meyer era is a pretty good wake-up call. In the locker room following the 31-6 beating, there was no Tim Tebow-like promise to work harder and push the team harder, but several players did speak. Their message was to forget what happened, get back to work and commit to being the best. "We see it as a stepping stone," linebacker Brandon Hicks said. "No team is perfect. You can't go through a perfect season without having some type of controversy, some type of obstacle in front of you and we felt like this was our point. This is where we actually have hit reality and looked in ourselves and seen that, OK, we can be beat and there is nothing that we can do to stop that. "This was our grow-up time. This is time for us to capitalize off everything, off all our mistakes and keep going forward with everything that we've done." Duke Lemmens said he was glad several players spoke up because it reinforced the message, especially to the younger players. And there are a lot of those - 41 of the 75 players who have participated in a game are freshmen and sophomores. "I think it's actually a good thing we're not all leaning on one guy [as a leader]," the senior defensive end said. "I think it's as good of a older class of leaders I've been around since I've been here. "A lot of important stuff was said after but it doesn't mean anything if we don't follow up with it this week in practice and try to learn from that game and make the best of the rest of the season." That was Meyer's message to the team on Sunday. Leadership is more than lip service. "It was very angry group [after the Auburn loss in 2006]. Ole Miss, it was a dejected group. This group was a combination of both," Meyer said. "Some leadership really stepped up in there, but it's easy to stand up and say something now. You've got to be a grown man to back everything up. I'm anxious to watch. "My way of evaluating is not what's just said on Saturday. I'm going to watch extremely closely tomorrow. It's easy to stand up and say, 'Let's go do this,' and [have] group hugs and all that. We'll find out." [email protected], (904) 359-4500 No. 12 LSU at No. 14 Florida When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Where: Florida Field, Gainesville. TV: ESPN.
