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The new term on the rant is "offensive philosophy." Please, someone explain what LSU's "offensive philosophy" is and don't use laymen's turns...use technical jargon.

Every coach has an over arching strategic philosophical approach to football. If you have to be told or explained to what Mile's philosophy is after 9 years of watching him I pity you. But basically it's:
- run first is the best option, passing leads to turnovers (unbalanced)
- limit mistakes by the QB even if that means making him 'just another player' (not an on the field general and playmaker)
- avoid turnovers at all costs even if it means shutting down your offense and major playmakers/producers (see Jeremy Hill comment in this thread)
- rely on defense to win games, make stands late in the game to 'save it' and 'get victory'
- sit on a lead, don't attack when ahead
-win games by a close margin, point differential doesn't matter, just win (win ugly)

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Posted by NorthTiger

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Posted on 10/20/14 at 11:10 am to Tiger_n_ATL

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quote:The new term on the rant is "offensive philosophy." Please, someone explain what LSU's "offensive philosophy" is and don't use laymen's turns...use technical jargon. Every coach has an over arching strategic philosophical approach to football. If you have to be told or explained to what Mile's philosophy is after 9 years of watching him I pity you. But basically it's: - run first is the best option, passing leads to turnovers (unbalanced) - limit mistakes by the QB even if that means making him 'just another player' (not an on the field general and playmaker) - avoid turnovers at all costs even if it means shutting down your offense and major playmakers/producers (see Jeremy Hill comment in this thread) - rely on defense to win games, make stands late in the game to 'save it' and 'get victory' - sit on a lead, don't attack when ahead -win games by a close margin, point differential doesn't matter, just win (win ugly)

How is that working for Les?

One time I was sitting in the Superdome after a high school team just completed a 15-0 season and won the state title. I overheard a fan from that school say "I know we won the state title and all but we could have won many of our games by larger margins."

So, winning is NOT the only thing for some people.

This post was edited on 10/20/14 at 12:51 pm

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Posted by PacWilly

Member since Jun 2010

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Posted on 10/20/14 at 11:40 am to Tiger_n_ATL

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Every coach has an over arching strategic philosophical approach to football. If you have to be told or explained to what Mile's philosophy is after 9 years of watching him I pity you. But basically it's: - run first is the best option, passing leads to turnovers (unbalanced) - limit mistakes by the QB even if that means making him 'just another player' (not an on the field general and playmaker) - avoid turnovers at all costs even if it means shutting down your offense and major playmakers/producers (see Jeremy Hill comment in this thread) - rely on defense to win games, make stands late in the game to 'save it' and 'get victory' - sit on a lead, don't attack when ahead -win games by a close margin, point differential doesn't matter, just win (win ugly)

This is the recipe for championships, isn't it? One exception, I don't think Les strives for close margin victories although he'd take a sure close margin of victory by getting conversative rather than "getting aggressive" late in the game and putting a victory at risk. So what if you run the ball, punt, and the other team scores late to make it close only to run out of time. That's just good football.

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Posted by Lonnie4LSU

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Posted on 10/20/14 at 1:33 pm to Tiger_n_ATL

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run first is the best option

And that's different how from most successful SEC programs in most yrs.?

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limit mistakes by the QB even if that means making him 'just another player' (not an on the field general and playmaker)

You didn't watch LSU football much last yr., did you.

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sit on a lead

LSU scored 254 pts in the 1/2 of games in 2013 and 220 in the 2 1/2 of games. Doesn't seem like much of a difference for all this sitting on a lead you claim to be going on to win close.

It's amusing we are coming of one of the best passing yrs in our history, but still some want to push this myth of Miles wants to run 1st, 2nd, and last.

We lose a pretty fair, experienced QB, 2 pretty fair, experienced WRs, and a pretty fair, experienced RB and have to replace them with almost totally experienced players. Why would anyone be surprised with us going to the run more this season. Isnt that the smart play given our youth on O?