Beating a dead horse: RB rotation

I read this garbage the other day and seriously LOLed at how Cam, Miles and Wilson actually believe this is good.

I wasn't going to post it because I thought Fournette may have earned the lion share after NMST, but I was very wrong.


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Stored away in a vault somewhere at the LSU Football Operations Center, there has to be some top-secret formula the Tigers’ offensive coaches use to rotate a stable of talented running backs from game to game and play to play.

Then again, maybe there isn’t.

Which is exactly what Les Miles and his coaching staff want: to keep their tailbacks fresh and keep defensive coordinators guessing who’ll be on the field for any given snap.

It’s such a well-guarded plan that not even the tailbacks themselves know the rhyme or reason behind the rotation, senior Terrence Magee said.

“Your guess is as good as mine,” Magee said when asked how the rotation works. “The depth chart is etched in sand here. You never know who’s going to go (on the field).”

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Keeping fresh is a joke. These guys are in two, maybe three plays at the most, then you don't see them for another series or two.

Here are some things Magee and Porter said.

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“It could be Kenny and Darrel, or me and Leonard,” Magee said. “You never know who coach Frank is going to put in when we’re on the sideline.”

Magee said the tailbacks never know when it’s their turn.

“You’re standing there, watch a couple of plays and he (Wilson) calls your number and you run out there,” he said. “You don’t hear the play call, you hear him calling your number.”

But as far as who that might be, Porter, like Magee, said he has no clue as to how the coaches arrive at their decision.

“It depends on how they feel, and who has a hot hand,” Porter said. “It’s whatever coach Miles and coach Frank want to do … I’m with them. We just want our guys to take it the distance every time.”

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Hot hand my rump. Fournette gets a 10 yard gain, then comes out so Magee can run for one yard.


People can say what they want, but we have never swapped out RBs as ridiculous as this before. In 2011, Ware was averaging 18 carries while Ford was 2nd with 9 a game. Same with Blue and Hilliard in 2012 (before Blue was injured), then Hill took over a couple games later.

We've never really run a true committee approach except in the second half of 2011 (after Ware's suspension and Hilliard's emergence). What we have ran, is a two back system, with one guy getting the majority of carries. We have never done this platoon shite to start the season under Miles. The only teams that do shite like this, are triple option teams.