re: Jacques Doucet on the Frustrations With LSU Football

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Most DC's don't install their schemes and/or doctrine till late in the season (Texas A&M) or the following Spring during their 1st season. Last year was let's get on the field what they already know--By November we can start the "Install" of our vision as a defense. So Doucet's question was valid--The answer was if BK going to admit if it was House's official True defense last season vs Now.

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This could be the dumbest statement I've seen on the board in quite a while. And that's saying something!

No coach is "waiting until the end of the season" to install is preferred game plan/approach. They start the season with the approach/scheme they want to play and adjust as the year goes on (if necessary) once they see how the approach looks in action vs. in theory.

The A&M defeat last season wasn't a result of LSU installing it's "true defense" ahead of that game. It was due to the fact A&M now had 11 games of actual data to analyze and was able to execute a plan to exploit LSU's weaknesses. The defensive approach LSU took vs. A&M was not significantly different than the approach they took against Alabama. It's just that late in the season opponents had a better idea as to how to exploit the holes. That's why Perkins suddenly went from a game wrecker to non-existent. He didn't do anything differntly. The opponents adjusted to him.