Link Gumbo 12/31/10 - The Les Miles Memorial Bowl
by PodKATT on Dec 31, 2010 4:27 AM CST
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Derek Dooley: A Man Cursed
via bubbaprog @ 30fps.com
You may not have watched the Music City bowl last night, the first SEC bowl of the year and a coincidental matchup of two teams who lost games in the final (and sometimes past final) seconds to LSU this season. Of course it was destined to end in abject insanity. Thanks to a sequence of successful clock mismanagement, 17 players on the field for UNC, and baffling but remarkably correct officiating that is difficult to comprehend, despite what the image above shows, UNC won in 2OT, 30-27.
The key takeaways for LSU:
- Ultimately, it looks like Kiffin may have done us favor when they got Janzen Jackson.
- Tyler Bray with a full summer at QB could become a serious problem for us next year.
- If T.J. Yates doesn't take a page from the T Bob Hebert lesson of "Whatever happens, just snap the damn ball", then Butch Davis becomes THE coach with the biggest clock management problem.
This puts LSU's opponents at 1-2 on the bowl season, with the next appearance being the SEC-B1G triple header on New Years Day.
Football will take today off and travel to Dallas tomorrow afternoon after a light morning practice. In Dallas, all practices will be at Cowboys Stadium in the afternoon. The Team Hotel is the Hilton Anatole in Arlington.
The post practice interview from Wednesday is after the break. Skunks are involved.
Don't tell Jerry, but Derek Helton is aiming for the TV.
The Official LSUSports.net site is reviewing It's most popular items of the year. The biggest story was the April Fools Purple Turf (which was still getting picked up as a real story as recent as AUGUST) and the most popular video was a Big Cat Drill from last spring.
Meanwhile, the Publications Dept has put out their own selections for football photos of the year.
LSU spent over $25 Million dollars on football for the fiscal year ending in June of 2010, good for 3rd in the SEC behind Bama and Auburn and 5th nationally. LSU Football also turned a profit of more than $43 Million dollars on the year. As is the case in most of the country, Football supports almost all other sports, with the entire athletic dept. generating about $7 Million in profit from a revenue of nearly $110 million dollars. Interestingly, last year Men's basketball turned a profit of over $2 million, but almost all of it was needed to cover the costs of the Women's team, which operates at a great loss. Baseball is unfortunately lumped into the All Other Sports category, but I would love to see what kind of revenue/profit that is generating.
Those of you with time to kill at work should peruse the official Dept. of Ed. site which released this data. LSU's report is HERE.
The CEO of the Sugar Bowl lobbied to keep the Ohio State players eligible for the bowl. And Tressel is allowing the players to play in the bowl only after they pinkie swore to come back and serve their suspensions next year. Jim Tressel is a fool.
Everybody hates Nick Saban (except Bama fans, I think...)
No games until the Ladies take on Tenn. In the PMAC on Sunday in the SEC opener.
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Janzen Jackson
I’m curious as to why you think that Kiffin ultimately did us a favor in stealing away Janzen. Do you not think he has performed up to the level that he was projected coming out of high school or do you think he is such a “trouble maker”/“head case” (however you want to put it) that he would negatively impact the team? He certainly has had his off the field issues but I think he’s looked good on the field.
I'd say he's not worth it in the head case department
Besides that, its not like LSU’s hurting for defensive backfield.
Talented player, but not worth it. And he made 2 stupid plays in the final 30 seconds and overtime last night.
Writer (and a handsome one at that),
And the Valley Shook
by Billy Gomila on Dec 31, 2010 9:05 AM CST up reply actions
What billy said
Don’t get me wrong, he’s got talent, and maybe a few years in a stable coaching staff will improve him even more, but the off the field stuff (including the new nebulous “personal issues to deal with in Louisiana” that was mentioned int the broadcast) and the late game meltdown are what have me thinking we lucked out.
Of course, by next year he could be the best corner in the league. Im not rooting against the guy.
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I definitely don't approve of what Tressel did
He’s unfairly putting pressure on the players and putting his own interests (having his star players back for the Big Ten [sic] schedule next year) ahead of the players’ interest (possibly going pro, if that’s the right choice for them). Everyone seems to assume Tressel is nice and grandfatherly because he doesn’t run up the score and wears old timy vests, but I’ve always thought he had an asshole streak in him. Didn’t his Youngstown State teams get in some hot water with the NCAA?
Don't Panic.
by 4.0 Point Stance on Dec 31, 2010 9:57 AM CST reply actions
You can email the Assoc. AD about the baseball figures
LSU’s budget is public record, so if you ask them they are required to give it out.
maybe I've got the details wrong
but I tried to have this discussion with my grandfather over too much seagrams and not enough water (head, it aches), but the difference in this 1 second spike and the ole miss debacle is that the clock would run the one second off at Ole Miss when the ref sets the ball, preventing you from having that one second left for the next playwhen the ball is spiked, correct? In other words, it is impossible to spike it from a new play when there is but one second left on the clock and expect to get another play off? In this case, they clock was simply winding down and UNC spiked it with one second left, giving them one second left for the next play when they kicked?
This actually seems perfectly clear now that I’ve written it down. I blame Canada.
The difference is
UNC had a running clock with more time for the actual play and they ruled that the ball hit the ground with 1 second. LSU had to line up and run a play with 1 second left. And I think the standard rule is a play takes at least 2 or 3.
Writer (and a handsome one at that),
And the Valley Shook
by Billy Gomila on Dec 31, 2010 1:36 PM CST up reply actions
that purple field looks flipping sweet
Is it wrong that I said that? Is that frowned upon here? Because I gotta tell ya, I gotta claim ignorance on this.
The best part of that article is the comments from people thinking it was true.
“I see a future where grass ceases to exist.”
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