And, it may be even tougher than that. Coming down from Cloud Nine to get ready for the next game is often times tougher than dragging yourself up from, say a 13-10 loss to the University of Alabama at Birmingham. It didn't happen. The job just got a lot more difficult. Handling defeat, or adversity, is one thing.
Coaches talk about it all the time.
Handling success is something else. You can prepare a team on how to respond even if you're down by 20 points, but I don't know of too many coaches who harp on what to do after you get up by 20. I don't want to say that about our team. I don't know that, but it is certainly a process we want to talk to them about and correct in a right manner. The triumph was an extremely welcomed ray of light bursting through after the darkest hour in LSU football in some time.