In the aftermath of LSU’s thriller in Death Valley this past weekend, the Tigers have every reason to celebrate. But on Tuesday’s edition of Second Guess with Bobby Hebert and Mike Detillier, they saw a couple of teachable moments. One is serious and has to do with the team. The other is a bit more lighthearted and concerns the fans.
Detillier put the LSU v Alabama game into media context. He noted that the game is the sixth most watched college football game on ESPN. It captured an audience of more than 7.85 million peopled, making it the highest rated college football game since 2016. With all that attention and adulation coming from LSU’s clutch win, Detillier wondered if the players will process the victory in a way that can keep them motivated for the future, especially the immediate future with their next game against Arkansas.
“What you don’t know is how Brian Kelly’s team reacts to success at that level and I think this might be the trap. I think sometimes the worst part of life is dealing with success, because we are used to dealing with adversity. With success and everybody’s patting you on the back, like man you were great, man we’re going to run the table we’re going to win all three games, you know that gets in your head. If you listen to Brian Kelly yesterday, he was like OK the fans can enjoy it,” said Detillier.
We’ll likely learn another aspect of this squad under Coach Kelly in the coming weeks. For the Cajun Cannon, he hopes the fans on LSU’s campus learned how and when to properly celebrate a win. You won’t find too many people in purple and gold who will argue against storming the field at Tiger Stadium after a gutsy 2-point conversion to seal a victory over Nick Saban. Hebert believes those are the perfect conditions for Tiger fans to lose themselves on the field. As for some previous times, Hebert said a bit of restraint could’ve gone a long way.
“I think we got a teach all our youngsters our young Tiger fans that’s the time to storm the field, when you have a significant win not against Ole Miss. When they stormed the field, I’m like what are you doing? Just because you’re excited, you’ rein college now you’re going to go storm the field? No, it has to be you beat the number one team where you beat Nick Saban, Alabama in Baton Rouge,” said
Hebert.