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No. 1 Alabama is off this weekend, so coach Nick Saban has a little bit more time to be reflective.And from the sound of it, he’s not a big fan of the up-tempo, no-huddle craze that seems to be engulfing college football and producing Xbox-like offensive numbers.
"I think that the way people are going no-huddle right now, that at some point in time, we should look at how fast we allow the game to go in terms of player safety," Saban said Wednesday on the SEC teleconference. "The team gets in the same formation group. You can't substitute defensive players. You go on a 14-, 16- or 18-play drive and they're snapping the ball as fast as you can go, and you look out there and all your players are walking around and can't even get lined up. That's when guys have a much greater chance of getting hurt ... when they're not ready to play. I think that's something that can be looked at. It's obviously created a tremendous advantage for the offense when teams are scoring 70 points and we're averaging 49.5 points a game. More and more people are going to do it.
Coach
Nick Saban is right. Too much sugar and not enough salt, becomes
boring. All offense and weak defense is for silly people pretending to
be great football players because they ran fast to catch a pass all day
long. 70 to 63 sucks !!!
Nick Saban (From Fairmont, WV), stop being butthurt about WV/Oregon/etc.
sounds like Saban is worried about WV and Oregon
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I guess Bama may fear Oregon. Go Ducks!!!
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Fairness?
Laughable. Get your boys out there properly conditioned coach. Also,
yea most fans like to see points scored. Keep your field goal battles
down south buddy (apologies to georgia and tennessee who put on a good
show last weekend)
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We're a lot more conditioned than USC. What's your record this year? What happened?
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Amid such turbulence, all L.S.U. did was win its first five football games, with victories at home and on the road, by margins as wide as 49 and 38 and 27. The Tigers’ latest victory, over Towson, was Coach Les Miles’s 80th win at L.S.U.
Yet his team again dropped a spot in the Associated Press poll this week, to fourth, behind Alabama, as expected, but also behind Oregon and Florida State. A season that started with national championship expectations, with the Tigers locked in behind the Crimson Tide, has eroded into something of a crisis with a daunting schedule ahead.
L.S.U., then, presents an odd duality, at once shaky and undefeated. Read more...http://www.nytimes.com/
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By MARTY MULÉ
Tiger Rag Featured Columnist
Here’s a jarring thought: Imagine the 2012 season winding down and LSU in the position of having to win one of its last two games against Ole Miss and Arkansas in order to be eligible (meaning having at least six victories) to play in, say, the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, or the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl.
Boy, that’s a long, long way from the BCS National Championship Game, where virtually everyone in the preseason predicted this team would again finish.
But it could happen. The Tigers high-stepped their way - all right, maybe tipped-toed is a better phrase for the last two games - to finish a shaky 5-0 in the cupcake portion of the season. In their next five games, though, against a murder’s row of college football, it’s not hard to imagine LSU losing to anyone - maybe all - of their upcoming five opponents, standing at the moment a cumulative 21-1 record.
Would anybody take LSU, playing herky-jerky football, against a field of 10th-ranked Florida (4-0 with impressive road wins at Texas A&M and Tennessee), No. 6 South Carolina (perhaps the best balanced team in the SEC), No. 28 Texas A&M (3-1 and loser only to Florida), No. 1-ranked Alabama (5-0 and which has picked up right where it left off in January’s BCS game with LSU), and No. 20 Mississippi State (4-0)?
Didn’t think so. Read more...http://www.tigerrag.
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LSU Football - Geaux Tigers!!!
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College Football
L.S.U. Has Quaked in Recent Weeks, but 5-0 Tigers Haven’t Cracked
By GREG BISHOP
Published: October 3, 2012
Before the Louisiana State Tigers even finished out September, they had
endured a hurricane and a bomb threat. They had dismissed the star
player Tyrann Mathieu because of team rules violations. Other players
had sustained injuries or had been suspended for academic problems.
Bill Haber/Associated Press
Towson’s Gerrard Sheppard catching a touchdown pass past cornerback Jalen Mills in L.S.U.’s 38-22 victory on Saturday. L.S.U. slipped to fourth in the Associated Press poll.Amid such turbulence, all L.S.U. did was win its first five football games, with victories at home and on the road, by margins as wide as 49 and 38 and 27. The Tigers’ latest victory, over Towson, was Coach Les Miles’s 80th win at L.S.U.
Yet his team again dropped a spot in the Associated Press poll this week, to fourth, behind Alabama, as expected, but also behind Oregon and Florida State. A season that started with national championship expectations, with the Tigers locked in behind the Crimson Tide, has eroded into something of a crisis with a daunting schedule ahead.
L.S.U., then, presents an odd duality, at once shaky and undefeated. Read more...http://www.nytimes.com/
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Gainesville.com
LSU, UF to flex muscles Saturday
LSU's Kenny Hilliard will be a handful on Saturday. (The Associated Press)
By Robbie Andreu
Staff writer
Staff writer
Published: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 5:56 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at 5:56 p.m.
Florida's defense has faced lots of speed and finesse so far this
season, with teams spreading the field with three and four wide
receivers and throwing the football all over the lot.
Now, for the first time this season, the Gators are bracing for power.
That's
what LSU will bring to The Swamp on Saturday. A big, strong, powerful
downhill running game that grinds out yards and first downs and wears
down opposing defenses. Read more...http://www.gainesville.
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Gauntlet stands in front of unbeaten Tigers
By MARTY MULÉ
Tiger Rag Featured Columnist
Here’s a jarring thought: Imagine the 2012 season winding down and LSU in the position of having to win one of its last two games against Ole Miss and Arkansas in order to be eligible (meaning having at least six victories) to play in, say, the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, or the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl.
Boy, that’s a long, long way from the BCS National Championship Game, where virtually everyone in the preseason predicted this team would again finish.
But it could happen. The Tigers high-stepped their way - all right, maybe tipped-toed is a better phrase for the last two games - to finish a shaky 5-0 in the cupcake portion of the season. In their next five games, though, against a murder’s row of college football, it’s not hard to imagine LSU losing to anyone - maybe all - of their upcoming five opponents, standing at the moment a cumulative 21-1 record.
Would anybody take LSU, playing herky-jerky football, against a field of 10th-ranked Florida (4-0 with impressive road wins at Texas A&M and Tennessee), No. 6 South Carolina (perhaps the best balanced team in the SEC), No. 28 Texas A&M (3-1 and loser only to Florida), No. 1-ranked Alabama (5-0 and which has picked up right where it left off in January’s BCS game with LSU), and No. 20 Mississippi State (4-0)?
Didn’t think so. Read more...http://www.tigerrag.
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LSU Football - Geaux Tigers!!!
| Florida Alligator | LSU's Mettenberger adds fresh dimension to offense |
| Orlando Sentinel | Miles earned nickname thanks to Florida |
| Shreveport Times | Guilbeau: Notes - Watch for the fake! Miles returns to scene of a great fake |
| Yahoo! Sports Radio | Audio (13 min, 8 sec): Mike Scarborough breaks down LSU and Florida | .mp3 |
| Florida Today | Can Gators hold those Tigers? |
| Miami Herald | Offensive line the foundation of Florida Gators’ success |
| LSU Sports | Video (8 min, 9 sec): Les Miles post-practice interview |
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