Quick Thoughts on LSU
10-22-07
by: Ryan


I’m going to put up a more in-depth review later this week, regarding the good stuff like the refs’ calls, LSU fans, and perhaps even some commentary on the game itself. But I’m too exhausted to get into all that drama when I’ve gotten maybe 6 hours of sleep this weekend. I just wanted to put out a little pep talk to try to get the Auburn faithful to get their heads back up after this weekend. Despite the results of this weekend, here are some positive things to take from the past couple of days:

1) We won this game. Auburn played as well as it had to for a win in Death Valley. Auburn was the better team on Saturday and it took what seemed to be some sort of demonic intervention (I refuse to even consider it was divine intervention!) to keep LSU in the game through a series of previously questionable (and completely incorrect retrospectively) calls by the refs and a freakish 1 in 10 shot of success toss into the end zone. The boys played their hearts out and if the game were played 10 more times, Auburn would have won 9 of them.

2) We are a very young team. Do you know how scary we are going to be when these 18 and 19 years olds who are taking on a senior LSU team (who is running out of Saban’s recruits) stride for stride are 20 and 21? May the Lord be with the SEC when these kids are 21 and 22, it might not even be competitive by then. Can you even believe the maturity and composure of our freshmen? They have gone so far beyond the call of duty it’s not even funny.

3) Brandon Cox is living up to the preseason hype. Cox has become the leader that we expected him to be. Cox has been nearly perfect in the past four games. There has not been a more clutch drive this season, from any team, than Cox had in the fourth quarter Saturday. No one has driven the ball under greater circumstances, in a tougher atmosphere, against a better defense than Cox did against LSU Saturday night. The only problem was that he was too clutch, despite the circumstances, and scored too quickly.
4) Auburn is the only three loss team still ranked. The pollsters respect us. Even a 5-3 Auburn is ranked higher than a 6-2 Alabama team that just ran the score up on Tennessee. War Eagle.

5) There is still plenty more to the season. I’m not saying that Auburn has much of a shot at winning any sort of championships this season, but the best parts of the season are still ahead of us. We still get to take our frustrations out on Ole Miss, and when we’re done using them as a punching bag, Auburn will get to take the pain to Georgia and then welcome Alabama for what might be the best Iron Bowl in a decade.

Hold your heads high Auburn, it’s still great to be an Auburn Tiger!

War Eagle!


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