re: Question About “O’s Broken Promise” Narrative

It's not what he said he was going to do.

I believe putting Ensminger in as the OC is a one-year measure because O can't get an OC he wants right now, but I choose to believe that. Nobody has said that.

However, we've been told that Ensminger doesn't want the job.

Well if you're too dense to understand, I'll spell it out for you. An OC needs to mold his offense around the personnel that he has until he's able to recruit the players he needs.

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I’ve heard all the radio guys saying that O campaigned on getting a top young OC

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This is some kind of crazy parsing of words you may be doing inadvertently - so I won't presume to accuse you of deliberate misrepresentation.

O said he was going to hire the best coordinators (and assistant coaches). One of his first hires was Pete Jenkins. Say what you want, but Pete Jenkins is arguably the greatest position coach in CFB history. So, that was within his promise (no question Jenkins was/is well past his prime). Canada's resume was arguable - certainly he was a hot property and was the only OC Broyles candidate after his season in Pitt.

But, Steve Ensminger isn't even in the area code of the promise. And I hate this has turned into a bash Ensminger deal, because I think a lot of Steve Ensminger. I don't even think he's a bad coordinator right now, in 2018.

But, "best"? However subjective and mushy the word "best" is - there is no question this is not what Orgeron promised. "Best" would have to be a guy with a demonstrated Top 20 offense within the past 5, 8 seasons, minimum - either in the NFL or big league CFB. Hell, if he'd gotten the best coordinator in Division I-AA, that might be arguable.

But not LSU's TE coach. In a weird way, it's like O is trying to validate himself - he was a position coach. SE has been a position coach for some time.

Many are speculating that O wants Ensminger so he can meddle in the offense. Maybe that's true - I can't say. Even so, I believe it is more of a comfort level (like Miles was with his coordinator choices, particularly offensive ones). O is "comfortable" with Ensminger - they of the same generation - they were in the LSU program together as players in 1979.

But it is not the type of decision one makes to compete for championships in this day and age. I'm not saying we need a gimmicky offense like Canada's - just a modern offense that has proven success against a range of teams of the upper echelon of CFB.

Steve isn't a bad play caller even today - I think 2016 dispels any notion of that. But calling plays off a play sheet off down and distance and defensive alignment, after doing film study is a far cry from crafting an offensive approach and constructing plays with your personnel to attack the defenses on the upcoming schedule, and adjusting that as you go, depending on how the season unfolds for your team and your opponents.

That's the difference between driving a car and designing/building one.

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Well if you're too dense to understand, I'll spell it out for you. An OC needs to mold his offense around the personnel that he has until he's able to recruit the players he needs

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I'm fully aware of what an OC needs to do. Did Coach O discuss personal issues during their interview? Apparently not because apparently it came as a surprise to Canada that he wasn't going to be allowed to run the offense as he saw fit

Which coincidentally even Coach O admits was one of his failures at Ole Miss

When standing on the outside looking in historical perspective matters. One of these guys has done this shite before. And the other one is actually a professional offensive coordinator something coach orgeron has never even come close to being

But yes. Let stress that the defensive line coach has a better handle on what the offense needed as opposed to the guy he apparently failed to properly interview who actually is a coordinator

I'm not necessarily much of a fan of Canada but this failure isn't 100% at coach Os feet

You can choose to believe that a defensive line coach can better assess offensive needs than a guy with 6 years of coordinating experience and more than a decade on the offensive side of the ball. I choose not to believe stupid shite like that

WTF are you a Hillary alter? It’s not a narrative it’s what happened you stupid frick

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Good grief you are dense. If you have to tell an OC remedial coaching points, and you're going to offer him $1.5 MM per year, you're interviewing the wrong candidate.

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I see you chose wisely to ignore the rest of my post

You keep believing that the defensive line coach can diagnose the needs of an offense better than a guy who spent nearly 20 years on that side of the ball

Believe stupid shite if you like but it's still stupid shite

The offense improved after the meddling, that's the fact pattern.

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The offense improved after the meddling, that's the fact pattern.

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Oh fricking please. Teams get better as Seasons go along and a defense got noticeably better as the defensive line got healthy which helped a lot

You are believing a fairytale. You are actually believing in the Judgment of a defensive line guy over a guy who's been on the other side of the ball for nearly 20 years. As such you are retarded

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You can look right to the moron rabid negative fanbase for keeping quality coaches away.

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Im sure THATS what it is. It couldn’t have ANYTHING to do with the fact that we just fired a coordinator after one year because our head coach is controlling and hard to get along with and we have a cuck of an athletic director who is ethically a douchebag. If someone offered you a multimillion dollar contract to do your job, are you going to decline it because of what people are saying on an online message board? You seriously can’t be this dense in real life!