LSU Tigers
It’s hard to like Les Miles unless you are a fan of the LSU Tigers. He’s annoying as all get out. He wears that silly-ass hat 4 inches above his ears. He says the stupidest shit at the stupidest time (e.g., “Let ‘er rip!” and “This is not what we planned.”). And he gets away with some of the dumbest play calls in the history of college football.
All that being said, the decision to go for an onside kick in the 3rd quarter of the Auburn game last weekend was brilliant. LSU had just cut into Auburn’s 14-3 lead with one of the best throws I have ever seen a college quarterback make, especially from one who looked so bad for a half of football. Think Tyler Gooch bad.
In any event, Auburn is now up by four and instead of giving the Tigers the ball with 22 minutes to play, Les calls for an onside kick that was perfectly executed. Hell, there wasn’t an Auburn player within 10 yards of the ball when it was recovered by LSU.
The Bayou Bengals proceed down the field and score the go-ahead touchdown. Though Auburn would take the lead later in the 4th, the game completely changed with that single play call. Ballsy.
Texas A&M Aggies
Oh how the above-average have fallen. In three games this season, TAMU has revived memories of Aggie teams of the past. And by “past,” I mean 2003. They lost to a fourth-place Sun Belt team … at home. They squeaked by a UNM team that Tulsa trounced by five touchdowns.
They allowed 41 points to Miami. 41 points! The same Miami team that scored a field goal against Florida. At one point, the Ags were down by 31 to the Hurricane … at home. This is the same Hurricane team that started a quarterback last year who was benched by BAYLOR three series into this season.
We all know the Aggies have a self-inflated view of their current and historical football prowess. But let’s be real — they have one national championship (1939), and one conference championship since 1995. Yes, they enjoyed mediocre success in the late ’80s and early ’90s, but they played in a bad conference with teams such as Rice, SMU (sans three years), TCU and some bad Texas Tech teams.
They are currently the second-worst program in the Big XII South. Their defense has been porous since RC was fired after the 2002 season. And I don’t see Quentin Coryatt, Sam Adams, Aaron Glenn or Dat Nguyen committing to this program any time soon. The Wrecking Crew days are over.
East Texas blue chip recruits on the defensive side of the ball aren’t going to Texas A&M. They are pledging to Oklahoma, Texas and LSU. The Aggies need to realize their definition of success has changed since 1992. No more conference championships and double-digit win totals. Eight wins a bowl game. That should satisfy the Cult.
Tennessee Volunteers
They just flat out suck. Gerald Jones must be thinking, in between pulls, “how in the hell did this team fall so far” … *cough cough* … “so fast?” It is easy — they have some of the worst coaches in America. They go out to UCLA and lose to what turns out to be a pathetic Bruin team (losses at home to Arizona and by nine touchdowns to a Mountain West juggernaut).
They are boat-raced by Florida. That, in itself, is not that degrading. Of course, when the game is over ten minutes into the first quarter, you score a field goal, and the game is AT HOME, that increases the embarrassment scale to epic proportions.
The Vols are in danger of falling into the Aggie doldrums. The sustained success of Florida and Georgia plants redneck UT firmly in third place in the SEC East. And they are about to fire that fat-ass roaming the field in construction-worker orange.
Don’t get me wrong, Tennessee is a great job. In my humble opinion, it is similar to Michigan. But whomever takes the head job in Knoxville isn’t going to have Ohio State, Wisconsin and the nine dwarfs to compete against year in and year out. They will have to play Georgia and Florida every year. AND … play LSU, Auburn and Alabama every other year.
The fall of the Vol program is imminent.
*In Memory of JBG*
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