Auburn deserved to win the game because the Tigers outplayed LSU most of the night. Only until the softer defense designed to keep the play in front and protect the lead allowed the Bengals to march down the field in the final three minutes did the much improved AU defense surrender much of anything.
Auburn deserved to win the game because a starting linebacker was booted on a bullshit targeting call while an LSU DE was allowed to remain in the game despite a hit that didn't look a whole lot different. That DE then made a potentially game-changing strip in a later drive.
Auburn deserved to win the game because LSU's touchdown wasn't even a TD. The guy was down and the ball wasn't across the goal line.
Auburn deserved to win the game because the team put aside all the discussion swirling around the future of its head coach, a furor fanned by the dumbest, most self-adoring athletic director in the history of college football.
Not so fast my friend!
Auburn did not deserve to win the game because it crumbled in the red zone time after time after time -- a pattern that extends over two seasons now.
Auburn did not deserve to win the game because with the game on the line, the team -- whether it was coaching or players -- allowed a team that hadn't done dick all night to march right down the field and score. Whether the snap got off or didn't, LSU scored. It happened. Didn't count, but that's a technicality. It happened. Half a tick more and that's a crushing loss.
Not so fast my friend... Etling was two steps over the line of scrimmage when the pass was thrown anyway. That wasn't flagged, so the touchdown would have been good.
The frustrating thing about it? The failure to execute when in scoring position. Move the ball, move the ball,move the ball. Get to the 20 and assholes pucker to the size of a pinhead.
That should have and easily could have been a 45-10 type ass kicking. I don't care who's calling the plays, that HAS to be fixed. It's not a one-game thing, or a just this season thing. It goes back to all of last season, too.
The butthole has to stop puckering. It just has to. Somebody's also got to identify the puckerer.
Read today from Scarbinsky that Gus was told to either be the head coach or not. Make Lashlee earn his pay so that if things don't improve he can be the sacrificial lamb. With Art Briles taking his place. Fuck a monkey if Briles is sitting out there wanting to be OC, let's do that NOW. Let Lashless fetch water and wipe up puddles.