g8terh8ter_eric
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If we stop people on 3rd down, does it change this season and seasons past outcomes?? I say it does, but we won't know about the past and can only hope about the future.
The 3rd downs LSU made all day killed us more than one single call. If we stop them on any one of those plays, we win.
unless they go for it and get it on 4th down. getting the fumble on that last drive would have actually been better than getting the 3rd down stop, it was a sure stop, our ball. blown...
Just looking back on that 2006 LSU game's boxscore, and it was actually worse than I remembered it. Those clowns were 8-13 on 3rd down conversions and 3-3 on 4th down conversions. I didn't realize 1) Les Miles was gambling that often in that game and 2) that we were that bad on 4th down.
ESPN - LSU Tigers vs. Tennessee Volunteers Box Score, November 4 2006 - NCAA College Football
If anything, that makes it even more clear that a missed call on a fumble didn't cost us that game.
with all due respect ras, what are you talking about???
on the last drive that they scored the go ahead touchdown, we caused russell to fumble and recovered it but the call got blown. that would have gave us the ball with under a minute to play, victory formation,game over.
and you essentially made my point for me about stopping them on third down, we didnt stop them on fourth down either...
We'll just have to agree to disagree. Bad calls happen in every game. But how often does a team convert 3 of 3 4th down conversions in a game? I weigh the impact of those 3 plays (plus the 8-13 3rd down conversions) over the course of the first 59 minutes of the game more than I do 1 play/bad call in the closing seconds of the game.
We never should have been put in that position in the first place.