My goodness heavens sakes no wonder that our country's government is not run the way that it could be managed better. Because the choices that the American people have to choose from is appalling with a hand picked setup by the two political party's known as the Washington DC political establishment.
The Tea Party made it easier to identify the men and women working for the DC establishment. So I know now who not to vote far.
It is a shame that I can't vote for some very honest and responsible people that I already know in my own city. But that of course is what really is wrong with our present American political reality.
The American people are going to need to completely bake the right political cake running America from scratch. From the grass roots spreading out in greater numbers into the federal government.
We have a very long way to travel on our road to redemption
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| The Advocate | Buzz of preparation underlies LSU’s rest |
| Sports Xchange | LSU Report: Inside slant, Notes & quotes, Strategy & personnel |
| The Advocate | Rabalais: LSU fans should brush off the losses, put on a happy face |
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| USA Today | In idle week, Alabama will focus on healing |
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| USA Today | NCAA board chair Hatch doesn't envision a superdivision |
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LSU kept offense vanilla, defense showed some pizzazz in second half: Film Study
LSU Tigers running back Alfred Blue (4) goes airborne as he
runs for yardage against the Furman Paladins. LSU had a sloppy first
half but finished strong going into an open date weekend.
((Photo by Brett Duke, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
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on October 29, 2013
Welcome to the Film Study from LSU's 48-16 victory against Furman. The Tigers' imperfect performance wasn't unexpected, as they played for the ninth consecutive weekend. Having an open date with Alabama up next also contributed to the malaise.
Outside of a couple of turnovers, the offense was pretty sharp, even with a reshuffled offensive line and starters resting. Zach Mettenberger threw an ugly interception that directly resulted in the visitors' only touchdown. The other pick he threw came as the result of a protection issue when his arm was hit from behind. The Tigers piled up 672 yards and likely would have topped 700 without the picks.
It's interesting to note how vanilla the LSU offense was, likely due to Alabama coming up next. The Tigers ran from their base offensive set, two running backs and two wide receivers, on 43 of 62 snaps. The Tigers also worked in a few sets with two wide receivers and two tight ends, a formation they have shown very little of this season. Expect to see that set in two weeks in Tuscaloosa.
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LSU gets in some rest ... but preparation for Alabama lies ahead
Instead of exiting the LSU practice facility at 8 p.m. Monday,
running back Jeremy Hill squeezed in studying for a grueling exam in
oceanography.
Safety Craig Loston ordered a new pair of ice skates for his 2-year-old daughter, while quarterback Zach Mettenberger — a senior with a lone three hours of course work — deviated little from a regimen of devouring film on the screen or his iPad.
“I’ll go home, hang out, sleep,” Mettenberger said, “and then be back here in the morning.”
Since checking into the West Campus Apartments on a balmy Sunday in early August, the No. 11 Tigers have slogged through 13 weeks of workouts, lifting sessions, film reviews, position meetings and nine games before an open week — the last of the Southeastern Conference teams, along with Alabama, to get a reprieve.
Run-down bodies and weary minds need a rest, but buzzing in the background of the lull is the dull roar starting ramping up ahead of a visit to No. 1 Alabama (8-0, 5-0) on Saturday, Nov. 9.
The volume knob has barely been turned, but Tuesday saw the first volley of questions about a game that’s served as a de facto BCS quarterfinal the past two seasons.
And the Tigers don’t trot out the tired cliché of this one being the next game on the schedule, either.
“I’m not going to sit here and lie to you guys,” Hill said. “You just can’t let it overwhelm you. You can’t let it take you out of what you normally do. A lot of times you can get amped up and try to do too much.”
Over the first three days, LSU turns the mirror and scalpel on itself to remove flaws.
On Tuesday, there was the normal routine of film review from what can generously deemed a somewhat lethargic 48-16 rout of Furman, and a practice in helmets and shoulder pads.
In each meeting room, the to-do list of fixes varies.
For Loston, the session with defensive backs Corey Raymond hit on a long-running theme this season at the last level of LSU’s defense: shoring up communication.
“You want communication to always be a main topic,” Loston said. “If we’re communicating, nothing can go wrong. We need to stay on the same page. We just want that to be a focus, no matter who we’re playing.”
Then there’s clean-up and reminders. Case in-point: proper alignment and leverage on routes, an issue alluded to by Miles two weeks ago coming off a 27-24 loss at Ole Miss in which the Rebels passed for a season-high 349 yards.
Technique was the chief topic in the linebackers room with defensive coordinator John Chavis and his linebackers, who have been criticized in recent weeks for poor tackling.
Lamin Barrow, a senior outside linebacker, said whiffing in space is a product of the second level relying too often on speed to make a play, leading to overrunning, poor angles and weak leverage.
Still, Barrow said, Chavis underscored playing low.
“Pad leverage,” Barrow said. “Just getting our knees bending and getting down there and being physical with these O-linemen.”
As for Hill, he’s already parsing film of the Crimson Tide — the footage from last year.
Running backs coach Frank Wilson dispensed with tape of the Tigers gashing the Paladins — Hill and Terrence Magee combined for 251 yards — and showed cringe-worthy cutups from a night where Bama limited ballcarriers to less than 3 yards a crack.
Statistically, Hill could spare himself a critique after posting 107 yards in a 21-14 loss. Only he sees a back forcing the action, cutting back and changing direction trying to turn 4 yards into 50 and winding up with a 5-yard loss.
“It was horrible,” Hill said. “It was 50-50. I’d do a really great play, then a really bad play.”
The tally: 60 yards left out on the Tiger Stadium turf. And Hill thinks about carry No. 28, a 3-yard loss where he cut back on a power call going left. Take the 4-yard gain given, and it’s a manageable third-and-3 at the Bama 25. Four yards closer for kicker Drew Alleman, who missed from 45 yards out.
“You can’t do those things against Alabama,” Hill said. “They’re way too assignment sound, and it’s just getting what’s there.”
“These games stick out for a long time,” Barrow said. “If you can make your mark on a game like this, it’ll take you a long way.”
Safety Craig Loston ordered a new pair of ice skates for his 2-year-old daughter, while quarterback Zach Mettenberger — a senior with a lone three hours of course work — deviated little from a regimen of devouring film on the screen or his iPad.
“I’ll go home, hang out, sleep,” Mettenberger said, “and then be back here in the morning.”
Since checking into the West Campus Apartments on a balmy Sunday in early August, the No. 11 Tigers have slogged through 13 weeks of workouts, lifting sessions, film reviews, position meetings and nine games before an open week — the last of the Southeastern Conference teams, along with Alabama, to get a reprieve.
Run-down bodies and weary minds need a rest, but buzzing in the background of the lull is the dull roar starting ramping up ahead of a visit to No. 1 Alabama (8-0, 5-0) on Saturday, Nov. 9.
The volume knob has barely been turned, but Tuesday saw the first volley of questions about a game that’s served as a de facto BCS quarterfinal the past two seasons.
And the Tigers don’t trot out the tired cliché of this one being the next game on the schedule, either.
“I’m not going to sit here and lie to you guys,” Hill said. “You just can’t let it overwhelm you. You can’t let it take you out of what you normally do. A lot of times you can get amped up and try to do too much.”
Over the first three days, LSU turns the mirror and scalpel on itself to remove flaws.
On Tuesday, there was the normal routine of film review from what can generously deemed a somewhat lethargic 48-16 rout of Furman, and a practice in helmets and shoulder pads.
In each meeting room, the to-do list of fixes varies.
For Loston, the session with defensive backs Corey Raymond hit on a long-running theme this season at the last level of LSU’s defense: shoring up communication.
“You want communication to always be a main topic,” Loston said. “If we’re communicating, nothing can go wrong. We need to stay on the same page. We just want that to be a focus, no matter who we’re playing.”
Then there’s clean-up and reminders. Case in-point: proper alignment and leverage on routes, an issue alluded to by Miles two weeks ago coming off a 27-24 loss at Ole Miss in which the Rebels passed for a season-high 349 yards.
Technique was the chief topic in the linebackers room with defensive coordinator John Chavis and his linebackers, who have been criticized in recent weeks for poor tackling.
Lamin Barrow, a senior outside linebacker, said whiffing in space is a product of the second level relying too often on speed to make a play, leading to overrunning, poor angles and weak leverage.
Still, Barrow said, Chavis underscored playing low.
“Pad leverage,” Barrow said. “Just getting our knees bending and getting down there and being physical with these O-linemen.”
As for Hill, he’s already parsing film of the Crimson Tide — the footage from last year.
Running backs coach Frank Wilson dispensed with tape of the Tigers gashing the Paladins — Hill and Terrence Magee combined for 251 yards — and showed cringe-worthy cutups from a night where Bama limited ballcarriers to less than 3 yards a crack.
Statistically, Hill could spare himself a critique after posting 107 yards in a 21-14 loss. Only he sees a back forcing the action, cutting back and changing direction trying to turn 4 yards into 50 and winding up with a 5-yard loss.
“It was horrible,” Hill said. “It was 50-50. I’d do a really great play, then a really bad play.”
The tally: 60 yards left out on the Tiger Stadium turf. And Hill thinks about carry No. 28, a 3-yard loss where he cut back on a power call going left. Take the 4-yard gain given, and it’s a manageable third-and-3 at the Bama 25. Four yards closer for kicker Drew Alleman, who missed from 45 yards out.
“You can’t do those things against Alabama,” Hill said. “They’re way too assignment sound, and it’s just getting what’s there.”
“These games stick out for a long time,” Barrow said. “If you can make your mark on a game like this, it’ll take you a long way.”
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Thomas Williams · Top Commenter · Im not telling u
I don't like using my friends like chumps, so I really try to be honest with my opinions:
So I guess college upsets happen from time to time because of the football team with the best ability loses the football game before the game begins, because their emoticons are simply flat as the underdog team play with fire and great energy..
That is not going to be the case however in the up coming LSU vs Alabama football game week after next.
Alabama college football team has discipline and the best recruited college football players for the past five years.
LSU has very little team discipline and not as good college football recruits. What more do we need to know?
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Scott Rabalais: LSU fans should brush off the losses and cheer up; put on a happy face
LSU can’t win a national championship, and
chances at an SEC West title are pretty slim. So the season is over,
right? Think again
In our virtual reality world, it’s hard to sift what is real from what is perception.
That’s especially true for LSU, where gloom and despair reign every time the Tigers lose a game or don’t play well for a half (We enter into evidence as Exhibit A the first half of the Furman game).
Perception: Les Miles is on the hot seat (or should be).
Reality: Monday, one of our sports staff members took a call from an out-of-state LSU fan wanting to know if Les Miles was in trouble.
Look, fans certainly have the right to be unhappy with the Ole Miss loss, the first half of the Furman, or the season in general. The Tigers despite their defensive issues (more on that later) should be 8-1 at least right now and still in the thick of the national championship hunt.
But to imply that Miles is on the hot seat, or that his seat is anything but air-cooled with a state-of-the-art ventilation system, is beyond ludicrous.
First, the Furman win put Miles’ record at LSU at 92-23. That a winning percentage of exactly 80 percent. Add one national title (played for another), two Southeastern Conference titles (played for another) and you’ve got a coach who, barring some off-the-cliff seasons to come or some major scandal (the Sports Illustrated investigation at Oklahoma State really didn’t dent him), is going to leave LSU on his own terms. Plus, any coach worthy of the job would run the other way for fear that if a coach who won a national title and 80 percent of his games couldn’t succeed what chance would they have, Miles isn’t going anywhere other than by his own choice.
The other safety net for Miles is money. LSU would owe him $15 million were it to fire him without cause for the next three years.
Perception: LSU has fallen far behind Alabama.
Reality: Just two years ago, LSU was No. 1 in the country going into the Alabama game, which it won 9-6. LSU was the preseason No. 1 going into 2012 before Tyrann Mathieu was dismissed. And LSU was a whisker away from beating Alabama last year, which would have put the Tigers in line to play Georgia for the SEC title and the right to beat Notre Dame in the BCS National Championship Game.
If LSU is awash in the Crimson Tide’s wake, then it makes the Tigers no different from any one else. Alabama has won three of the last four national championships. Since the The Associated Press poll began in 1936, that’s been done just two other times. If Alabama wins it all this year, it will be the first program in the AP era to win three national titles in a row.
Winning national championships is hard, much harder than Alabama is currently making it look. It’s LSU’s misfortune that it is in the midst of its most successful era of football at the same time Alabama is chasing history.
Perception: LSU’s defense is the worst ever.
Reality: This isn’t a classically skilled LSU defense as we have come to know them over the last 10 years, but it is also not completely terrible. In fact, in most statistical respects, the Tigers are respectable compared to their SEC bretheren: No. 3 in pass and pass efficiency defense, No. 4 in total and scoring defense with 351.7 yards and 21.9 points allowed per game.
Certainly there are some huge deficiencies. LSU is eighth in rushing defense allowing 148.4 yards per game. Third down defense (38.3 percent allowed) is seventh, not abysmal but obviously not great.
You could say the Tigers’ numbers are skewed by playing Florida and Furman two of the last three weeks. Their numbers are likely to get skewed the other way the next two games against Alabama and Texas A&M, the latter whose defense is ranked no better than 12th in any major SEC stat category.
Now that’s a bad defense.
Perception: LSU’s season is over.
Reality: The Tigers’ hopes of playing for the BCS title are virtually nil. Their hopes of playing in the SEC Championship Game aren’t much better, but it is still a reasonable possibility.
This is the scenario: LSU has to win out against Alabama, Texas A&M and Arkansas. It then needs Alabama to lose to Auburn (or Mississippi State, not likely either) while Auburn loses to Arkansas, Tennessee or Georgia.
Again, small chance, but less likely things have occurred.
That’s especially true for LSU, where gloom and despair reign every time the Tigers lose a game or don’t play well for a half (We enter into evidence as Exhibit A the first half of the Furman game).
Perception: Les Miles is on the hot seat (or should be).
Reality: Monday, one of our sports staff members took a call from an out-of-state LSU fan wanting to know if Les Miles was in trouble.
Look, fans certainly have the right to be unhappy with the Ole Miss loss, the first half of the Furman, or the season in general. The Tigers despite their defensive issues (more on that later) should be 8-1 at least right now and still in the thick of the national championship hunt.
But to imply that Miles is on the hot seat, or that his seat is anything but air-cooled with a state-of-the-art ventilation system, is beyond ludicrous.
First, the Furman win put Miles’ record at LSU at 92-23. That a winning percentage of exactly 80 percent. Add one national title (played for another), two Southeastern Conference titles (played for another) and you’ve got a coach who, barring some off-the-cliff seasons to come or some major scandal (the Sports Illustrated investigation at Oklahoma State really didn’t dent him), is going to leave LSU on his own terms. Plus, any coach worthy of the job would run the other way for fear that if a coach who won a national title and 80 percent of his games couldn’t succeed what chance would they have, Miles isn’t going anywhere other than by his own choice.
The other safety net for Miles is money. LSU would owe him $15 million were it to fire him without cause for the next three years.
Perception: LSU has fallen far behind Alabama.
Reality: Just two years ago, LSU was No. 1 in the country going into the Alabama game, which it won 9-6. LSU was the preseason No. 1 going into 2012 before Tyrann Mathieu was dismissed. And LSU was a whisker away from beating Alabama last year, which would have put the Tigers in line to play Georgia for the SEC title and the right to beat Notre Dame in the BCS National Championship Game.
If LSU is awash in the Crimson Tide’s wake, then it makes the Tigers no different from any one else. Alabama has won three of the last four national championships. Since the The Associated Press poll began in 1936, that’s been done just two other times. If Alabama wins it all this year, it will be the first program in the AP era to win three national titles in a row.
Winning national championships is hard, much harder than Alabama is currently making it look. It’s LSU’s misfortune that it is in the midst of its most successful era of football at the same time Alabama is chasing history.
Perception: LSU’s defense is the worst ever.
Reality: This isn’t a classically skilled LSU defense as we have come to know them over the last 10 years, but it is also not completely terrible. In fact, in most statistical respects, the Tigers are respectable compared to their SEC bretheren: No. 3 in pass and pass efficiency defense, No. 4 in total and scoring defense with 351.7 yards and 21.9 points allowed per game.
Certainly there are some huge deficiencies. LSU is eighth in rushing defense allowing 148.4 yards per game. Third down defense (38.3 percent allowed) is seventh, not abysmal but obviously not great.
You could say the Tigers’ numbers are skewed by playing Florida and Furman two of the last three weeks. Their numbers are likely to get skewed the other way the next two games against Alabama and Texas A&M, the latter whose defense is ranked no better than 12th in any major SEC stat category.
Now that’s a bad defense.
Perception: LSU’s season is over.
Reality: The Tigers’ hopes of playing for the BCS title are virtually nil. Their hopes of playing in the SEC Championship Game aren’t much better, but it is still a reasonable possibility.
This is the scenario: LSU has to win out against Alabama, Texas A&M and Arkansas. It then needs Alabama to lose to Auburn (or Mississippi State, not likely either) while Auburn loses to Arkansas, Tennessee or Georgia.
Again, small chance, but less likely things have occurred.
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- Thomas Williams · Top Commenter · Im not telling u
- Reality: Alabama has recruited the best college football players in the SEC for the last five years, and those Alabama football players fear Nick Saban more than the referees. So Alabama plays college football game with great ability and team discipline.
You know about Alabama recent football history.
Lsu doesn't have the same equally as good college football recruited players as Alabama. And the LSU football players like to laugh at what Les Miles is talking about, so LSU football team discipline is on the poor side.
That reality is very clear to me, and I don't know how to change that truism quick enough for this LSU tiger football team to really defeat Alabama this week after next. 
Bobby Coxe · University of New Orleans
Scott: Surely you jest! "LSU fans should brush off the losses and cheer up; put on a happy face?" What are you smoking? Agreed that a record of 92-23 (.,800) is impressive, it still comes down to "What have you done for me lately?" Since Miles laid the proverbial egg in the BCS game and was "Saban-ized" 21-0, the Tigers 2012-2013 SEC record is 9-4, (.6900) with three games (Bama, Texas A & M, Arkansas) to go, and judging by the way the team is underperforming, the Tigers could very well end the 2013 season with a 4-4 Sec record. Should this happen, the Tigers would have a two year SEC winning percentage of .625, hardly worth writing home about. As a Tiger fan, I expect more from a $5M per year coach. In my opinion, the needle on the Tiger Football program is changing directions. A lack of quality coaching coupled with the loss of one or two key recruits each year the past few years is now beginning to show up. The best the Tigers could do last year was a tie for fourth in the SEC with 8 or so players going to the NFL, and add to this the Clemson loss, and the 2012 season could hardly be ruled a success. At this time, we very well could be headed for a similar finish. Sorry Scott, but I do not find anything to smile about with the last two years Tiger football performance. As a Alum and fan, I expect more. If you are content with the Tigers performance, then that is your business, but seems to me you are judging their success by other teams failures.
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