Mainieri calls us bush league.

[brantleyjones]

We got the moral victory.

 

[Mstate]

yea lsu fans are pretty pissed about this situation and have already flooded his email. they have 3 or 4 threads on tigerdroppings (lsu and sec website which i am a member of) about mingione.

 

[maroonmania]

but if we are just going to throw out all regard for sportsmanship and fair play just to say "we won" then what's the point. The whole point of a sporting event is to see who the better team is at that sport on that given day. If a team is just going to purposely cheat their way to a win just to say "I won" we might as well all stay home because the whole thing is nothing but a farce.

 

[futaba.79]

I have to do the same. In any org, the leader sets the tone.

For the most part, I've refrained from posting in Cohen threads. I've heard some astonishing stuff regarding his work with our team. So an assistant attempting to confuse the opposition is just par for the course.

I hope that's not what happened and the email is LSU BS.

 

[ckDOG]

...assuming what he did was intentionally directly to confuse the defense? That is unacceptable and should be addressed.

 

[Xenomorph]

*

 

[brantleyjones]

I'm rolling on the floor.

Of course, I didn't think we threw<span style="font-weight: bold;"> enough </span>water bottles at the refs after the KY game either.

 

[jakldawg]

That should be punishment enough.

 

[AdamDawgDude]

That should be punishment enough.

You don't think the LSU fans will take the high road and go through the proper channels to make sure that Mingione understands the rule and that he will not be permitted to act that way in the future?

 

[dawgstudent]

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[jakldawg]

probably not. It all goes back to that wacky Napoleonic law, and not the usual concepts of jurisprudence that most of us are more familiar with.
Or its' just the toxic chemicals and booze coursing through their veins. Either way.

 

[brantleyjones]

I get your point, and I actually agree, but...

Do you think that Bama fans spent a lot of time bitching about HOW they won the game where they fooled us into jumping offsides?

Do you recall that in the '80 Bama football game, Bama's nose guard batted the ball away from our center to set up the scramble for the ball at the end of the game? I'm sure that there were a lot of Bama fans upset over that.

Do you think that Bama's offensive line never actually held last year?

Or that LSU has never done anything underhanded when we played them in Tiger Stadium?

The last 3 weeks this board has been full of posts about how this baseball team has laid down and quit. Now we're all upset because a coach tried too hard to win a game?

We're bush league! What will the recruits think?

Give me a break! What do the recruits think about us being 5-23 in the SEC? Do you think that if we'd won that game and it had put us in the SECT that you'd all be on here crying about how unacceptable this is?

Yes, LSU is one of those teams that I don't care what we do to win, as long as we win. We can play fair against Vanderbilt.

 

[maroonmania]

I very much get your point. Essentially there are no values or ethics in our society anymore in anything else so why should we expect them in sports. I should just accept that fact and move on.

 

[jacksdawgs]

I love it....get any advantage you can get...we need it.

 

[brantleyjones]

I don't recall saying anything about values, ethics, or society. I specifically sited other games.

If the game was a morality play, we lost.

Yes, I think we should all move on, to next season, and working on winning games like this, without having to confuse the other team's 2nd baseman.

In the meantime, I think we should work real hard on trying to win at least one of the remaining 2 games, by any means possible.

And, yes, I'm a cynic, and an internet smartass.

 

[maroonmania]

I did. I was just reflecting on your point that fans want to win and don't care how. Sports can tend to mirror society just like the financial crash we've had because people wanted to get rich and didn't care how.