Uhoh! Another revealing, reflective and riveting edition of Texts From Game Day … in retrospect, make that Distinctively Adept Texts From Game Day. The texts arrived in waves and were gathered nicely by the anonymous assistant, who you can thank in the comments. This was a good one and I’m glad it was captured.
Suppose you hadn’t watched Saturday night. Too late, too busy, too whatever. Read along and experience what others witnessed, either at home or at Tiger Stadium. Or suppose you did watch. Revel in what others felt and see if you were moved to the same extremes.
This could be a long week for the Mountaineers. The players felt they were better and were left upset they couldn’t get the win. I’m not convinced that’s true. I think WVU did play well enough in that game to win, but I think you could make the very same argument for LSU. I don’t think WVU was so clearly better that it can be said the Mountaineers deserved to win.
They played well on defense, yes, but there were miscues they had to avoid and could not. There were also the special team blowups and there were more errors on offense — 10 turnovers in four games now, more poorly timed penalties and some disjointed play-calling.
The team is off this week in advance of UNLV, which precedes a game the following Thursday against USF. Lots of time to discuss and debate items, such as the decision to test Patrick Peterson and whether it should have been avoided, the uneven use of wide receiver screens, the Marshall rally and how it relates to the LSU rally and depth at running back … where it would appear depth is not the appropriate word.
I’m sure those issues are on your mind. I’m not sure the discontent with the coaching, particularly on offense, has been as high as it is now, 30 games into this.
At least that’s what I gather from Texts From LSU Game Day. Operator, won’t you put me on through? I gotta send my love down to Baton Rouge. Hurry up, won’t you put her on the line? I gotta to text the girl just one more time. My edits are in [brackets].
(12:43 PM):
So I guess Denard Robinson is hurt? Did it happen when he was walking on water, or turning water into wine?
(8:30 PM):
Getting nervous that this Cincy game will cut into our kickoff
(9:06 PM):
Where the bleep is our game….f u espn
(9:19 PM):
Lets hope this is a game where we dont look at avg starting field posiion after its over
(9:20 PM):
John Beilein as the official again, so at least its a BE crew
(9:20 PM):
I can’t see the game. Damnit Cincy!
(9:22 PM):
Woo-hooo! Tandy!!! Way to redeem yourself!
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