Confess it. You most likely only saw the 2nd fifty percent.
Weren’t even likely to check out the envisioned massacre of LSU.
Didn’t want to see Nick Saban have that considerably pleasurable at his previous school’s price.
Could not bear to know the gory details in advance of conference that stray, gloating Alabama enthusiast at the drinking water cooler Monday morning.
But phrase filtered out. Social media and whatnot, and the curiosity obtained the ideal of you.
Properly, just to issue out right here: LSU did not win. Didn’t conquer Alabama. Misplaced, if which is the term, 20-14.
And LSU has not sunk so small that it is dealing in ethical victories.
“No way,” lame-duck head coach Ed Orgeron reported afterwards. “We have been in position to get this recreation, but we didn’t … Received to place our men in greater place.”
But Saturday night time in Tuscaloosa experienced to creep up shut to moral victory territory.
Posture?
They had about 50 % a dozen of the Tigers in spot in the stop zone when the game finished on a makeable Hail Mary, 30 yards or so, that possibly just as nicely fell incomplete.
It would not have counted anyway thanks to an LSU penalty, which would have had fifty percent of Louisiana marching on the Southeastern Meeting headquarters with pitchforks.
But not undesirable when you can send your depleted junior varsity to the No. 3-rated crew in the region — missing 12 starters, nine on defense on your own — and scare the Crimson out of the Tide ahead of all people lastly exhaled.
Bama prevented what would have been an unmitigated catastrophe and can nonetheless earn the nationwide championship. LSU didn’t experience the embarrassing whipping that both equally sides (enthusiasts at minimum) were being expecting.
Orgeron might had already dropped his career — and a superior chunk of his depth chart is lacking because of to a biblical operate of injuries — but he hasn’t lost the locker room.
Perhaps LSU went about it all erroneous from the commencing. Most likely alternatively of spending Orgeron all those people hundreds of thousands they just should have just supplied him home funds to perform with from the sideline.
“I don’t like the assertion ‘nothing to drop.’ There is often a recreation to reduce,” Orgeron explained. “We arrived listed here to earn the match.”
Probably. But the satan-maycare-Orgeron was a hoot. All of a unexpected LSU was…
