Question for the Rant Re: Brick Haley

I read somewhere the other day that Haley and Chavis while friends, often butted heads over what the DL should do. Brick apparently wanted to get more pressure on the QB, but Chavis remained stubborn and as DC always won that battle. I think it was ponamsky that said there was zero chance Brick would follow Chavis to A&M for that reason.

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this makes sense. I think Haley will land on his feet, esp if LSU still owes him money and he can be patient looking for a job.
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He's Texas' DL coach already

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He's Texas' DL coach already

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thanks, I had forgotten that. I wish him well as I always have liked him.

Chavis tried to contain. Deny the long plays and make the opponent use 10 plus play drives where with each additional play the offense is more likely to make a mistake and run time of the clock. He liked to blitz corners and nickels because they had high probabilities of not being accounted for by a blocker as his change of pace.

This worked for the most part, but led to frustration many times at the end of the halfs and games when he became even less aggressive. Face it, the 2011 LSU D would have played well in any scheme and to a lesser extent 09,10, and 12.

During the Saban and Pellini years the defense gave up long yardage plays on occasion, but still had ranks in total yards and PPG similar to the Chavis defenses.

Anyway, the Tigers look to be going more aggressive(risk taking) now and it should be fun to watch. No doubt, they will probably give up some long quick TDs because of this but hopefully will more than compensate for that with more TFL, sacks,TOs, and 3 and outs.

We had the #1 defense in the SEC last year. I highly doubt any personnel changes were anticipated on that side of the ball.

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If I recall, Chavis had encouraged Haley to sign a contract extension before he turned tail in the eve of the ND game.

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Hell, Chavis told Steele to take the LSU job.

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Steele was Miles' first choice for DC because of his willingness to add Orgeron and retain Raymond (per Randy Rosetta and others).

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Are you sure? I think Steele was a last resort. I read somewhere that the contract terms Alleva wanted limited the search

I think there was some expectation on Brick's part that he would have the chance to follow Chavis.

On one hand, didn't seem like Chavis was thinking that way (TAMU wanted him so bad he could have probably leveraged that, except for the fact that TAMU's DL coach was brand new). So, with Chavis encouraging Brick to sign that extension this may have been in the works with TAMU for longer than we know.

On the other hand, seems like CLM and Alleva saw that Brick did want to go with him. Just an impression I get. Therefore, with the assumption (on CLM's part) that Brick was no longer "all in" it was time for him to go. They didn't want to screw him; but at same time it had to work out with coaching limits and get Coach O on board after Brick left (for Texas).

I kind of get the feeling Brick slacked off, sort of like Studwra. Pretty good coach; not a bad recruiter historically. But the last few years compared to previous- slacked off is about right.

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Brick had to go.

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The LSU D-Line has been a strength for years. Brick had a big part of that. To completely disregard those achievements is wrong. Brick is a very good DL coach.

Last year was just a matter of not having deep talent at those positions as we have had in the past coupled with the fact that the offense sputtered all year, keeping the few SEC-quality D-Lineman on the roster on the field longer.