The Jumbo Package | 1.11.12
by outsidethesidelines on Jan 11, 2012 10:03 AM CST
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PrintLast Friday morning, DeAndra Chapman leaned in close and whispered to her 3-year-old daughter, Starla, that Crimson Tide quarterback AJ McCarron was wearing a bright yellow bracelet that she’d given him when he visited her hospital room on Christmas Eve. He was still wearing it Monday night when he helped lead the University of Alabama to victory in the BCS National Championship game.
Miles said he didn't see loss coming against Alabama | al.com
To see a national championship ooze through their fingers, LSU coach Les Miles said "was painful as anything we've been through." This was a season that LSU fans expected to see ending with an exclamation point, a BCS championship win to culminate a perfect season. Instead, in light of the 21-0 loss to Alabama, it ended with a question mark. And tough questions.
BCS national championship game: Newspaper front pages | NOLA.com
The Newseum in Washington, D.C., collects newspaper front pages from around the world each day. Here is a sampling of some of the pages from Alabama and Louisiana newspapers relating to the BCS national championship game Monday, where the University of Alabama defeated Louisiana State University 20-0.
LSU football coach Les Miles needs to explain why Tigers were unprepared for title game | NOLA.com
At his postgame press conference, there was no place for LSU Coach Les Miles to hide. There was little he could say to mitigate the monstrous nightmare that unfolded at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, as Alabama embarrassed the previously unbeaten Tigers 21-0 in the BCS championship game Monday night.
LSU's Jarrett Lee: 'I don't know what the deal is, but this was a special team' | NOLA.com
As for if he approached the coaches about lack of playing time following the Nov. 5 Alabama game, Lee said: "Nope, sure haven't. I haven't talked to any coaches or anything. "I don't know it at all. I'm not really sure what happened, but I just tried to stay prepared for whenever my opportunity came. Obviously, it didn't. I don't know what the deal is, but this was a special team.''
NFL scouts watched the BCS game too | NOLA.com
"There are five guys who are top 16 projected right now," McShay said. "You look at it last year and just five guys were drafted overall from Auburn and Oregon. There’s a huge difference from a year ago." Several of the players now are faced with a decision to return for their senior years or declare early for the draft, including LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne and Alabama running back Trent Richardson, who were the best prospects on either team, according to McShay.
B.C.S. to Weigh College Football Postseason Changes - NYTimes.com
College football’s postseason is poised to undergo significant change. B.C.S. officials will meet Tuesday for the first of several discussions on altering the sport’s postseason. Interviews with conference commissioners, athletic directors and television industry officials revealed that change to the current structure of college football’s postseason was imminent. "I think there will be some change," Bill Hancock, the executive director of the Bowl Championship Series, said. "Now will it be seismic? No one knows."
In Postgame News Conference, Pushing the Boundaries - NYTimes.com
After Louisiana State lost to Alabama on Monday in the Bowl Championship Series title game, Tigers Coach Les Miles and two players climbed a podium for their news conference. It started like most news conferences do, in that key figures were there to answer questions and reporters were there to ask them. After Miles made an opening statement, the moderator opened the floor to questions. The first came from Bobby Hebert, a local broadcaster and former Saints quarterback, whose son, T-Bob Hebert, plays center and guard for L.S.U.
ESPN earned a 13.8 overnight Nielsen rating for last night's BCS National Championship game, which saw Alabama defeat LSU 21-0. That figure is down 14.3% from a 16.1 overnight for last year's Auburn-Oregon matchup, ESPN's highest-rated telecast ever. Last year's game came down to Auburn kicking a field goal on the last play to win. When fast-national data comes in later today, the Alabama-LSU game will likely rank as the net's and cable TV's fourth largest audience ever, behind only Auburn-Oregon and two "MNF" games.
TideSports.com - HURT: Tide makes the most of second chance
Alabama exposed more than Jefferson, though. It exposed LSU. Suddenly, it seemed that there was more to LSU's gasconade, its cockiness, than its own estimable abilities. Deep down, perhaps, LSU didn't want a rematch with Alabama at all. Perhaps at some level, the Tigers realized that they were fortunate to come out of Tuscaloosa with a win, and that they would have been far more fortunate to have Oklahoma State or Stanford or anyone else as an opponent.
US gridiron glory for Williams - Local News - News - General - Bayside Bulletin / The Redland Times
FORMER Bayside Ravens Gridiron Club player Jesse Williams is now the toast of the American college football.
AUSTRALIA'S Jesse Williams had a premonition his rivals would not trouble the scorers in the American College championship series final.
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20-0 huh?
"There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success." -Coach Bear Bryant
"I thInk everybody should take the attItude that we’re workIng to be a champIon, that we want to be a champIon In everythIng that we do. every choIce, every decIsIon, everythIng that we do every day, we want to be a champIon."
-- Nick SabaN
by Tokeisch on Jan 11, 2012 10:13 AM CST via mobile reply actions
I guess since they didn't have a point (team or article)...
they thought they’d take one of ours!
Fourteen.
Several of the players now are faced with a decision to return for their senior years or declare early for the draft, including LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne and Alabama running back Trent Richardson, who were the best prospects on either team, according to McShay.
I’m just catching up after getting back from NOLA late last night. The deadline for the draft is Sunday, right? So there should be news coming fast this week.
God bless our Dark Lord.
the Alabama-LSU game will likely rank as the net’s and cable TV’s fourth largest audience ever
On the talk show I was listening to this morning, all they were talking about was how this was the third lowest (not lowest, mind you, but third lowest) rated BCS championship game. They went on and on about how the public didn’t want to see the rematch, but never mentioned that this was only the second title game on ESPN (which guarantees lower ratings than ABC would). And also, our game did not go down to the wire like AU’s did last year, so people didn’t necessarily stay tuned in till the end.
God bless our Dark Lord.
There's been a lot of that kind of talk going around.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
by Slice of Life on Jan 11, 2012 10:35 AM CST up reply actions
How about that Austrailian breakdown?
Probably the strangest way to summarize Jesse playing in the national championship
by Bamabrave4 on Jan 11, 2012 10:45 AM CST via mobile reply actions
The comments in the Herald Sun article are hillarious
a team kicking for a field goal when they’re still 40+ yards out from the opponent’s goal line for conciliatory points having exhausted their downs strikes me as rewarding mediocrity and one of the reasons why many Rugby Union purists decry the excessive nature of the kicking game and long for the days when running rugby reigned supreme.
Translation: he’s an Australian version of a Big/Pac fan and doesn’t respect the defenses Pawwwlllllll! It must be the al.com of Australia.
"Everyone's got a plan 'till you punch them in the mouth" - Mike Tyson
by twominutedrill on Jan 11, 2012 11:04 AM CST up reply actions
PAW!
DEM BAMMERS AINT GONE WIN NO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP PAW LSU GONE TAKE CARE OF DEM I TEL YOU DONT YOU WORRY ABOUT AUBURN PAW CHIZIK GONE TAKE CARE OF AUBURN WE GONE WIN IT ALL NEXT YEAR PAW YOU MAKE ME SO MAD I JUST OOOOOOOO WANA CHOKE YOO
It was most exhilarating. The Tigers of Louisiana took on the Tide of Alabama. In the end, the tide triumphed by kicking an oblong ball made of pigskin through a big H. It was a most gripping victory.
Son, I'm only going to tell you this once:
If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs.
God bless our Dark Lord.
The entire game can be summarized by simply looking at the Aussies in involved
vs. 
by UAinPHOENIX on Jan 11, 2012 12:58 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
I have to admit, seeing their rugger punting from my seat in the endzone... respek. But, our Wallaby could throw a fridge through a brick wall.
Advantage: Jesse Williams
9th January, 2012: Section 101, Row 1, Seat... I'll let y'all spot that one.
"And a crashin' blow from a huge right hand
Sent a Louisiana fellow to the Promised Land"
-- "Big John" by Jimmy Dean
by TiderUpNorth on Jan 11, 2012 7:40 PM CST up reply actions
Who is Barry Bostwick?
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Jan 12, 2012 9:00 AM CST up reply actions
I didn't realize he was the same guy that played the mayor in Spin City until I googled.
God bless our Dark Lord.
I think there was speculation early in the process that PSU might want to de-emphasize football for awhile
it appears that speculation was correct.
PSU has truly thrown in the towel.
I bet Roof’s pudgy ass leaves a heaping deuce in his office shitter.
…every man needs a calling-card.
9th January, 2012: Section 101, Row 1, Seat... I'll let y'all spot that one.
"And a crashin' blow from a huge right hand
Sent a Louisiana fellow to the Promised Land"
-- "Big John" by Jimmy Dean
by TiderUpNorth on Jan 11, 2012 7:44 PM CST up reply actions
Well,
now that he doesn’t have chizik fucking up his play calling, he will probably succeed quite nicely….
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