Inside the LSU football facility, there is a message to the players following the 31-13 loss to Alabama on Saturday.
“To every player and employee: You just experienced something that comes with being at LSU. When you win, everybody loves you. When you lose, everybody has an opinion,” the message read. “The media questions you. The fans criticize you. People who have never done what you do tell what you can’t do.
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“Welcome to LSU and the dark side of being a villain.”
The Tigers (6-3, 3-3) lost their third game of the season.
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“I just spent time with them today discussing that, ‘Hey, you can’t listen to the noise,'” Kiffin said Monday. “One of the hardest things to do is letting go of the previous outcome. That’s hard both ways when you got to let go of good, too. This is going to be the ‘everything we do is wrong’ noise. We lost to Alabama, especially the final score looking the way it did and it’ll be ‘They’re not playing you enough, they should be throwing you the ball more of each of them individually.’ This is what happens when you lose.
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“‘The basketball hoop is stupid and they shouldn’t have a little kid on a smoke machine.’ I just know all that’s what comes when you lose and when you win, it’s all good. Just making sure they understand not to listen to that. The loss at Tiger Stadium. Yeah, that’s bad and I feel bad for our fans, for the state. We’re supposed to win. We’re certainly not supposed to score 13 points in a game ever.”
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Alabama (7-2, 5-2 SEC) remained firmly in the College Football Playoff picture, while leaving LSU with long-shot hopes at best under first-year coach Lane Kiffin, who also dropped to 0-6 in his coaching career against Alabama (including prior stints at Ole Miss and Tennessee).
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LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt completed 35 of 47 passes for 380 yards, but was intercepted for the first time in three games as the Tigers struggled to cash in on scoring chances.
LSU went 0 for 4 on fourth down, those failures combining with a missed field goal and a turnover in Tide territory to limit the Tigers to a single touchdown.
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