So what happens to the Cap One Bowl loss ?

I didnt miss it I just dont believe it.

 

You know, when I saw the name I instantly thought the same thing. I think I dismissed it just as quickly however.

Tirk, looks like we have our pre-season warm up meal. Time to get to work.

 

Tirk, I watched the game and the FIELD decided it. There were HUNDREDS of slips as the turf literally flew up into the air or slid around. That hurts a speed time like LSU who lives on cuts and changes of direction. Thanks, but no thanks, but you don't know squat about what you think. There was NOT bad coaching in that game by LSU. T Toliver slipping as he tried to make a catch and have the ball volleyball off his hands which ended up being a key INT in the game by PSU was caused by the field. Strange how fans who know nothing about football immediately blame "bad coaching."

 

Of course I know you are kidding but you know my response to that....little Nicky won the 2009 NC with Mike Shula's players...Andre Smith, etc.

 

First, you can play unlimited games on artificial turf. Second, here's a novel idea....once you see that the field is UNUSABLE, you move the game to another venue. Florida is not exactly a sparsely populated and developed state. Once you see the field is horribly not qualified to serve as a college football field (really high school for that matter), you do NOT play the game. Once again, there was SOME rain during the week but the announcers made it clear what had occured in the last week...6 Florida state championship high school games and just a couple of days before the Miami vs Wisconsin bowl game. Thus the LSU game was the 8th game played in a week. It could have been Phoenix and it wouldn't have mattered if grass was used. You simply can NOT play 8 games in a week on a natural field. NO ONE does that! Ooooppppssss sorry, I guess MORONS do.

 

lsutiga said "Did we both play on it?"

Silly response. Field conditions AND weather conditions affect teams differently. Another non-LSU related example related to weather. Team A passes 80% of the time. Team B runs 90% of the time. Are you telling me that if winds of 30 mph exist during the football team that Team B doesn't have a HUGE advantage over Team A in this example? If you are, Lord help you.

A hideous field like that bowl game had from BEFORE the opening kickoff obviously favors the plow ahead running game type team which is always been Penn State's philosophy. Teams that throw the ball around have their receivers slip since they basically are playing on a field that is moving because the grass is going everywhere. Changing cleats isn't even going to help in a situation like existed there. And even when the receiver doesn't slip in a rare situation, his focus has been removed from the ball and switched over to trying to stand up.

And BTW, for anyone who might say "Oh, the coaches should have adjusted", you can NOT change the things you have been practicing for months and months and your offensive philosophy. Or maybe some of these people would say "Well Les Miles should have gone to the wishbone before kickoff." LOL!

 

This is football. You don't get to choose conditions that suit your team best. We lost bro, they were the better team that day.

 

Yup, that is the right call. I heard this question asked from many teams already. It definitely makes sense this way.

 

My response is "no he didn't".

Any of those Saban players on that team were freshmen and redshirt freshman...they weren't being coached by Saban....they were doing jumping jacks on the sidelines while the coaches were working on the field with the first and second string.

Miles coached them.

 

Silly thread. We lost, it's over. You coming on here to be thinking about a freaking Cap I bowl win is funny shyt.

Having said that, I understand a bad field benefits the "lesser" team but let me show you why you're looking like a pussy. What about teams who travel over two time zones. Even still, teams who have to travel East are MORE adversely affected. Another one is teams used to playing in warm weather having to play in cold ass weather.

These things happen, chap, you don't see their fans grabbing their pussies, and running around screaming.