Last year's on ESPN was the highest rated BCSNCG. To the other poster: Sorry, my mistake. It was on a Monday night last year though (per new BCS contract). When Fox had the contract it was on Thursday, Wednesday, and Tuesday night.
Anyone saying fire Miles after a 13-1 season with a trip to the NCG is an idiot. However he does deserve a man vs food size portion of heavy criticism for the disaster that was last nights offense. The entire offensive staff should be embarrassed.
I don't think I blame the OC for this one, although the book is still out on Stud. He did throw it a lot down field early with Lee, much more than I expected. It was only after Miles' favorite son returned that we went to an option, run dominated offense with very little down field passing. JJ gave us a one dimensional offense and once Bama stopped the run there was nothing else to turn to. I'd like to see Stud call a game with a QB that has a brain and is capable of throwing the ball down field to a wide open WR. I'd also like to see Miles be 100% hands off with the offense so we can see what Stud is capable of.
I almost started a thread about this but didn't want to make too big a deal about it. Naturally it's tough to find a silver lining in that game but here goes mine: I live in the Houston area, which has a huge LSU alumni/fanbase but is still one of numerous minorities. I've been wearing my LSU gear even more than usual this year(which is kind of hard to do). I've encountered some minor backlash such as comments that I'm not "as loud as most LSU fans." I had a friend tell me that he interviewed for a job about a month ago (under his potential direct supervisor) and thought it went really well. The interviewer basically said he was perfect for the job and the clear frontrunner. The final interview was with the potential supervisor and also President of the company. The President seemed nice although mentioned "I see you went to LSU. You guys really put it on us good last year in the Cotton Bowl. Your fans were very (paused to find best term) passionate." Anyway, he didn't get the job and thought that may have had something to do with it. In the few weeks leading up to the Cotton Bowl last year, I saw Aggie gear EVERYWHERE in Houston. They can be an annoying fanbase in a similar (although completely different) way than us. If I were hiring for a position that came down to an Aggie and someone else and the Aggies had just blown us out of our biggest bowl game in a decade and walked around with their permagrins nonstop (like we've been doing this year), I may lean towards the non-Aggie. Anyway, I guess the silver lining is that this devastating loss has humbled our fanbase and may lead to better jobs/opportunities down the road. We're obnoxious because we're rightly proud of our culture yet are constantly put down by anyone from Yankees to arrogant Texans, to Alabama rednecks. We just need to tone it down a little (not too much, just a little). This game did that.
I agree on jj, but lee played Damn well this year. Instill can't help but wonder how he would have played in game one if the jj issue wasn't in play! 2008 was a long time ago. .... which is the basis of ur perspective.
