Friday, September 28, 2012

From the Gladiator mouth:


Tinker Town: "Selling the product in our everyday American, has become a way of life that is ingrained into almost each and every thing that you and me see and feel these day. Television was the one entertainment thing that we all looked at over our days of impression. Commercials were a constraint suction from salesman trying to get us to spend our money in between what we were looking at. Now we must constantly sore out face from fiction, truth from outright lie, and reality from fancy. It is a great life?"
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Football at Auburn - Highlights
Video highlights from LSU's road game at Auburn.
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Times Picayune Video (2 min, 39 sec): Kevin Minter said the LB corps is growing together

Times Picayune

Video (2 min, 39 sec): Kevin Minter said the LB corps is growing together

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Video (12 min, 40 sec): Les Miles post-practice interview

Times Picayune

Josh Dworaczyk determined to improve pass protection (mostly video transcript)
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http://www.tigerrag.com/?p=222482


SEC TELECONFERENCE: Les Miles

Headman talks penalties and Towson prep over the phone



By RICHARD FISCHER
Tiger Rag Associate Editor

LSU head coach Les Miles participated in the SEC Coaches Teleconference Wednesday morning and said about what you’d expect him to say.
He talked about how LSU will learn from its high number of penalties against Auburn.
He spun playing a close game off as a good thing.
And he talked up Towson as if he were preparing for the Green Bay Packers.
It may be frustrating for us, the media, but that preparation is why the headman has never lost a non-conference regular-season game at LSU.
First on the penalties, LSU committed nine for 80 yards against Auburn including several personal fouls.
“The understanding of how important it is I think was really brought home Saturday night at Auburn,” he said.
Through four weeks of the season, the Tigers rank fourth to last in the league (11th) with 59.0 penalty yards per game, so the lack of focus in the Auburn contest wasn’t exactly an anomaly. Read more...http://www.tigerrag.com/?p=222482
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Grading the LSU Tigers through four games

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING -- LSU head coach Les Miles revs up the team, seconds before they take the field for the Auburn-LSU game.  After four starts, LSU looks good, not great
By Scott Rabalais
Advocate sportswriter
September 26, 2012
A year ago, the LSU Tigers were 4-0 after a strenuous September that included road victories against Oregon, Mississippi State and West Virginia, three ranked teams that helped propel LSU to the top spot in the polls.
Flash forward to 2012, and LSU looks a lot less dominant and a bit more questionable after a 4-0 start that included three home wins against outmatched opponents and a two-point road win over a struggling Auburn team.
One game remains this Saturday against Towson, a ranked FCS team but one without the depth to seriously threaten LSU, for the Tigers to get their football house in order before the schedule turns truly nasty: Read more...http://theadvocate.com/sports/lsu/3987493-123/grading-the-lsu-tigers-through
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SEC Blog

Muschamp hopes Jenkins returns for LSU

September, 26, 2012
By Edward Aschoff | ESPN.com
Florida coach Will Muschamp is holding out hope that junior linebacker Jelani Jenkins returns for next week's LSU game after fracturing his thumb against Texas A&M on Sept. 8.

Muschamp said during Wednesday's SEC coaches call that Jenkins will see a specialist on Friday to have the pin removed from his thumb. He'll then be fitted with a cast and further evaluated to see if he'll be healthy enough to play against the Tigers.


"We feel pretty optimistic about him [playing]," Muschamp said.


"Right now, we feel he should be able to go, but, again, you never know until the guy looks at it."


It helps that Florida has a bye this week, so that will give him more time to heal.


If Jenkins were to play against LSU, he'd have to wear a cast on his hand to protect his thumb, Muschamp said. From there, it's all about how much pain Jenkins can take. Read more...http://espn.go.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/51471/51471

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Oklahoma Sooners

Sooners need quick improvement

Without fixes, Oklahoma's remaining schedule could lead to disastrous season

Updated: September 25, 2012, 10:16 PM ET
By Jake Trotter | SoonerNation

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Matthew Emmons
After a loss at home to Kansas State, Landry Jones and the Sooners could be in for a long season.
NORMAN, Okla. -- On his team's opening drive Saturday night, Kansas State coach Bill Snyder made a peculiar decision. After an impressive drive, the Wildcats faced fourth-and-1 at the Oklahoma 36-yard line. But despite possessing a quarterback tailor-made for the quarterback sneak, Snyder elected to punt.
And in three minutes, Snyder's game plan became apparent. Don't give OU any breaks -- and wait for the Sooners to shoot themselves in the foot.

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The Sooners obliged, committing three turnovers that led to 17 points, as K-State exited Norman with a 24-19 victory."We just put the defense in bad spots," center Gabe Ikard said. "Kind of uncharacteristic stuff for us there."
But the reality is, such discombobulation is becoming too characteristic of this program. And given the remaining schedule, OU could be teetering on the verge of a disastrous season if rapid improvement is not made. Read more...http://espn.go.com/colleges/oklahoma/football/story/_/id/8418282/oklahoma-sooners-disastrous-season-improvement-made
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LSU Notebook: Another week, another hot Tigers tailback


LSU's Spencer Ware (front) took the backfield baton and was the Tigers' top rusher against Auburn on Saturday.
LSU's Spencer Ware (front) took the backfield baton and was the Tigers' top rusher against Auburn on Saturday. / John Reed/US Presswire
Written by
Glenn Guilbeau
BATON ROUGE — First it was Alfred Blue, then Kenny Hilliard and now it’s Spencer Ware. But wait a week, and it could be somebody new by the time No. 3 LSU plays at No. 11 Florida on Oct. 6.
Blue was LSU’s starter through the first three games of this season, gaining 270 yards on 40 carries, before suffering a knee injury that will sideline him for several weeks. Kenny Hilliard has been the most dominating back and remains the leading rusher with 343 yards on 47 carries going into Saturday’s 6 p.m. home game against Towson.
Hilliard started in place of Blue last week at Auburn, but it was Spencer Ware who emerged as the Tigers’ feature back at Auburn with 90 yards on 16 carries along with two receptions for 44 yards. Hilliard gained just 40 yards on 10 carries, while Ford added 42 yards on eight attempts. Read more...http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20120926/SPORTS0202/120926038/
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Sirius / XM Sports Audio (3 min, 10 sec): Miles talks about the win over Auburn
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More signs of balance between SEC East and West

By BRETT MARTEL (AP Sports Writers) | The Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The blazing starts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina are raising doubts about preseason assumptions that the West is best in the Southeastern Conference.
Sure, the West Division remains home to the top nationally ranked teams in the league: No. 1 Alabama and No. 3 LSU. But the next few weeks - LSU travels to No. 11 Florida on Oct. 6 and hosts No. 6 South Carolina on Oct. 13 - will clarify the extent to which the SEC's balance of power has begun shifting eastward.
''It looks like it has turned that way, with Florida undefeated, Georgia and us right there,'' South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier said, although he also noted that none of his team's victories have come against an opponent that currently has a winning record. ''We don't know how good we are, just like a lot of teams don't know.''
Florida (4-0), which has this week off, will be undefeated when it hosts LSU in a game Gators offensive coordinator Brent Pease called ''a defining moment to see where we're at.''
The leaders in the East have been winning with dominant defenses and powerful running games, a formula familiar to the Crimson Tide and the Tigers.
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