Was LSU one of 10 unluckiest teams last season?: Ron Higgins

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Why do people take the time to come up with meaningless stuff like this?

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whats wrong with breaking down some numbers and theories?

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Funroe

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ahhh, say no more. I understand

Unlucky by not having a suitable qb.

apparently all that bad luck didnt stop arkansas from embarrassing LSU.

I think it had more to do with being "bad", not "bad luck"

Well said!!!!

Luck didn't have a whole lot to do with picking the starting QB

We were a few decent bounces away from beating Notre Dame, Bama and Arky (which would have brought us to 11 wins).

I'd say that's pretty goddamn unlucky.

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I'd say losing your starting C on the first series counts as bad luck.

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What does a guy have to do to get benched?

I realize this was a total team effort. Colby Delahoussaye missed two field goals. Terrence Magee led the team in rushing with 24 yards. TWENTY FOUR. The defense allowed Arkansas to convert 10 of 17 3rd downs. No one covered themselves in glory tonight.

But holy hell, was Anthony Jennings terrible. He's been terrible all year, but this was sort of his perverse masterpiece of miserable quarterback play. Jennings couldn't do anything right, and worse yet, both coaching staffs knew it.

Arkansas put about 10 defenders in the box on every play, begging LSU to pass, but knowing that the quarterback couldn't hurt them. Even when he did complete passes, like he did to start the game, he went 5 of 5 for 33 yards, which isn't that great. He completed a few checkdown routes and when that dried up, so did any bit of offense.

LSU also knew Jennings couldn't do anything, and the coaching staff actively game-planned around his inability to throw the ball more than 10 yards down the field with any accuracy. The longest passing play on the game for LSU was for 14 yards. And that came with 3 minutes left with the game out of hand. This means LSU's best passing play is when Jennings overthrew DeSean Smith and got him exposed for a blow to the head, and a 15 yard penalty on the Hogs.

Jennings finished the game 12 for 22 for 87 yards, plus 14 rushing yards and a fumble. That's less than 100 yards of total offense, which is almost incalculably awful. There's nothing positive to build on here.

Yet Les Miles kept trotting him out there for every series despite a demonstrated inability to run a competent offense. There is no excuse tonight. No drops. No poor game situation. This was just a quarterback going out there and practically daring his coach to bench him with his play.

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whats wrong with breaking down some numbers and theories?

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The theory is that losing a close game is unlucky. The actual plays that happen in the game, and other circumstances surrounding the game are not factored in at all. In his theory, if you win every game that you are favored in by 20, and lose every game that you are an underdog in by 1, then you are a very unlucky team.

Imagine a game between 2 teams. Team A has an above average pass offense and an average run offense. Team B has a below average pass offense and an above average run offense. Team A is favored by 14. The weather conditions are very wet and windy, and team A wins by 2. In reality, team B was lucky to be in the game at the end, but based on the theory, they were unlucky to lose the game.

It's called coaches who don't prepare their quarterbacks. That's all plain and simple.