As bowl-month begins, it seems like every thing's gotten all quiet before the storm. Not much is being written about anything in college football. Heck, people have even slowed down on the "my God, Alabama still doesn't have a coach" talk, despite my best efforts to keep it rolling. And even when people are writing about the games, they just sort of say the same things over and over again. If a tree falls in the forest, and it looks like every other tree that falls in the forest, does it get much notice? Not unless that tree's name is Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, or Paris Hilton, but the lack of underwear may explain that. Besides, very few trees wear underwear anyway. Wait. What the hell was I talking about? Ah. Yes. Everyone's saying the same damned thing right now. But you have to figure that Notre Dame will get pretty sick of hearing how they have no shot at winning the Sugar Bowl. You also have to figure that LSU will get a little over-confident hearing that they are pretty much guaranteed to win against a bad Notre Dame team. That's exactly what keeps Glenn Guilbeaux up at night.
And oh, by the way, seems like the staff over at LSU has been very busy the past few weeks and not with Sugar Bowl preparations. In fact, some of their staff seem to be competing for the same job. That's a little different.
Still, it seems like some of the LSU players are finding plenty of motivation and focus for the Sugar Bowl. Their perception of the world might need help, but hey, whatever works:
Teams are usually not overly excited about playing lower ranked teams in bowls, but constantly hearing about the Fighting Irish on ESPN has been enough to motivate defensive end Chase Pittman.
"Yeah, they are the darlings of the media world," Pittman said. "Hopefully we can knock them off their media high horse that they are always on. We want to show everybody that they don't really deserve to be where they are."
How much ESPN can one really claim to watch and still believe that ND could be called a "media darling?" Mr. Pittman, meet Mark May.
By JH December 20, 2006 - 5:36 pm
LOL, Chase Pittman. Many of us LSU fans were not thrilled with those comments. Chase is a favorite of reporters because he will blab off like that. I suspect he was punished a tad at practice for that.
THe LSU players will be up for the game. Trust me after Ole Miss the players know they are vunerable.
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