For a 1-AA to lose to a 1-A program is not embarrassing. What is disappointing is losing the way we did. SU is a much better team then what final score indicated. Take away the turnover and untimely penalties, and if we had scored points in redzone it is a close game. Regardless who we played Saturday, if SU made the same mistakes we would have lost. If the same thing happen in Jackson or Tallahassee the score probably be more embarrassing. That being said, I am proud of effort the team gave. They want it bad and I think Bengal E is right. They may have want it too bad, was pressing, trying to do too much, and lost focus after Landry was ejected from the game. Tulane is history it is SWAC time. However, for those that want to paint a distorted picture of what occurred in the Tulane game, this article by Da white man sum it up.
Southern is undone by untimely miscues
Turnovers, penalties slow Jaguars' attack
09/30/01
By Marty Mul?
Staff writer/The Times-Picayune
Terrence Levy reflected, then said, "Those kinds of things are momentum-setters, and we really gave them a lot of momentum."
The Southern quarterback was discussing his team's turnovers and untimely penalties in Tulane's 41-7 decimation of the Jaguars on Saturday at the Superdome. In the first game Southern has played against a Division I-A team, the momentum almost hand-delivered to the Green Wave prevented a respectable showing by the Division I-AA Jaguars.
Southern had plenty of chances to slice into the Wave's 24-7 halftime margin.
Twice, Levy drove his team inside the Green Wave 5 only to lose the ball twice on fumbles.
Also, on a promising second-quarter drive, a crucial pass-interference call went against Southern and eventually led to a Tulane touchdown.
"We didn't help ourselves in those situations," said Levy, who also was intercepted twice. "We really hurt ourselves."
The interference call clearly caused a change in momentum. With the Wave ahead 14-7 in the second quarter, Levy moved the Jags from their own 16 to the Tulane 31. After a penalty and sack, Levy passed to Devin Lewis down the sideline, where he and defensive back Jeff Sanchez bumped inside the 10. A flag flew, and seconds later Lewis began beating the ground when the official indicated the call was going against the offense.
"It wasn't offensive interference," Lewis said. "His (Sanchez's) back was turned, and I kind of swung to get to it. I just think it was a bad decision." Levy said, "Look, I'm a player. I don't make calls, and I'm usually not in the best position to do that. But on this one, I just don't think I would have called that one against the offensive player."
That penalty pushed Southern back to the Wave 46, where the Jags punted. On the ensuing drive, Tulane went 81 yards, aided by four personal-foul penalties against Southern, for a touchdown to get some breathing room.
Levy, a statistical thorn in the skin of the Green Wave defense with 206 passing yards, and the Jags' leading rusher with 78 yards, couldn't quite lift the visitors back into the game. With the score 31-7, Levy got his team to the Tulane 6, where he fumbled the ball away. After Tulane scored again, Levy led the Jags back to the Wave 1-yard line, where Jeremy Williams fumbled -- and again Tulane recovered.
