re: Former LSU player from their 2011 team shares reaction to "The Rematch" (and other stuff)

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I have the want to believe Saban found those tendencies watching film of the SECCG. It's the only part of this where I think LSU truly got shafted. Bama deserved to be in the game, CLM got totally outclassed, and LSU fans will never get over seeing the best regular season run in history with no national hardware to show for it.

But, no one can tell me the team that lost the regular season game wasn't rewarded by sitting home and watching their eventual opponent fight thru a conference champ. game. I get that playing for an SEC Champ. was and is a big deal, but that's the part that's always stuck with me (along with being in the dome and wishing someone would light me on fire).

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the whole thing was definitely not fair to LSU. We had to beat bama twice to win the NC and they only had to beat us once.

but life isn't fair. As LSU fans we were spoiled with championship games, between baseball and football LSU fans saw the Tigers reach the title game 8 times between 1991 and 2009 and LSU went 8-0 in those games. The reality is that if you're good enough, long enough, eventually you're going to lose a championship game.

We didn't have the eye of the tiger in that game, they did and they won. Tip your cap and move on bc at the end of the day we have nobody to blame but ourselves bc if we had brought it that day it would have been a coinflip finish just like 9-6 was. If we had lost on a fluky play or call or something then we would have had a legit gripe, but that's not what happened. Is what it is, I think we'll see LSU back there one day.