AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Sometimes those old coaching axioms just don't get through. Take Nick Saban's 24-hour rule. The premise is fine, really: After a game has ended, his players at LSU can talk only about that game for the first day; then they must let it go and talk only about their next opponent. Simple, right?
And yet here is Chad Lavalais, LSU's man-child defensive tackle, talking about Oklahoma. Not about Ole Miss, which the Tigers just beat, 17-14; not about Arkansas, which is next up on the Tigers' brutal stretch-run schedule; not about a possible SEC championship game. Lavalais is talking about the big, bad Sooners. He says OU's signature defense is a lot like the one LSU ...