Clearer picture on the offense (from the advocate)

Which isn’t surprising, considering Cameron comes out of a school of thinking where the passing game works from deep routes on back in progressions. Pushing the ball downfield clears out space underneath and in the box, creating room for running backs in a power-based scheme. So it figures life under Cameron might not be a dramatic shift.

“We’re really coming out in the spread,” Hilliard said. “We’ve really been pounding the ball, and now we’re trying to open everything up. The past couple of years, people have really been stacking the box on us, and (now) we just want to open that up, get mismatches on linebackers and stuff like that.”



“We’re not going to be running Oregon’s offense,” he said. “I’m not Johnny Manziel. We’re going to do what we’ve been good at since coach Miles has been here: run the ball and take our shots (passing downfield).

“We’re going to present it a little differently, but we’re still going to do what LSU’s always done.”

And when it’s over, perhaps Cameron will use him as an example of how to do it.