re: What are your feelings regarding LSU's offense.

on the positive side, Miles and Cam seem to realize the limitations of running their current offense and are going to make changes for next season. Miles even said that you can only change so much that late in the season , refering to the bye week before the TAM game and the period before the bowl game. The offense will be overhauled this offseason. Still pro style but with the spread elements that make that can make that style work. More like what you see in the NFL and college teams that have successfull pro style offenses, like Florida St and Bama.

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There are systems that require less, but are never there at the end. Which do you prefer?
The smash mouth system is proven by Miles and Saban (god).

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Smash mouth is fine. No one cares what style LSU runs as long as it works more than every third or fourth year. Although this year is proving that smash mouth is not the only way to win.
My only issue is that for LSU, only juniors and seniors have been able to run it.

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2013 was a good offense, although with those skill players it would've been hard not to be good. Although I still think it should've been better considering the talent.

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I will give Miles and Cam credit for 2013 but I do believe it had a lot to do with Mett, Hill, OBJ and Juice being exceptional talent wise - NFL exceptional

It will be interesting next year, if they don't produce what excuse will the pumpers come up with to back Miles & Cam.

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A QB should be able to run a college system his second year in it. Obviously the more experience the better, but it's a bad college system that requires three years just to be decent.

2008-2009 were $#@% shows with new QBs. But you left off 2010--a bad offense with an experienced QB.
2011, with two senior QBs, was an ok offense but limited in the passing game. Certainly nothing special considering the QB experience.
2012 you can't just gloss over either. Mett was not a young QB. He had a year at UGA, a year playing juco where he actually played and didn't sit the bench, then a full year practicing LSU's system. Yet 2012 offense was still tepid.
2013 was a good offense, although with those skill players it would've been hard not to be good. Although I still think it should've been better considering the talent.

And there have been plenty teams with 2nd year QBs who have had productive offenses.

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100% agree with all of this.

If we're to once again compete for championships, we simply have to change philosophies on O.

No way to judge the actual scheme without a QB. We didn't have anything remotely resembling a l FBS starting QB this year so we'll just have to wait and see

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But you left off 2010--a bad offense with an experienced QB. 

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Which resulted in the firing of the OC.

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2011, with two senior QBs, was an ok offense but limited in the passing game. Certainly nothing special considering the QB experience. 

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60% completions 2000 yards 20 TD 5 INTs

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He had a year at UGA, a year playing juco where he actually played and didn't sit the bench, then a full year practicing LSU's system. Yet 2012 offense was still tepid. 

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He had 9 months of 2nd team reps at Georgia and JUCO =/= SEC. Yet threw for 2500 yards.

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And there have been plenty teams with 2nd year QBs who have had productive offenses. You can figure out Google.

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Burden of proof lies with the maker of the statement

And this

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expect the normal progression to take care of this. 
Seems if it gets interrupted, hard to right the ship.

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So the OC was fired after 2010 bc of bad offense despite having experienced QBs. How does that help your position?

The 2011 passing game was ok but nothing great considering TWO senior QBs and NFL talent all around.

You're still glossing over 2012. That was a weak offense. Mett, a QB with NFL talent didn't just have a year at UGA and a full year of game reps at Juco. He also had a full year in te LSU system. Just to produce a weak 2012. So it took all that practice to get to the 2013 offense. If you think that sounds like a good system, then I guess there's nothing left to say.

The point is, It seems to take a perfect storm of experience and talent to make this offense function at all. Simply having experience at QB is not enough. The coaches are not capable of fitting the scheme around the players.

And you still want to argue that offenses can't function with a second-year QB? I didn't provide examples bc it's like arguing the sky is blue. Just look at Ohio St this year.

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The pro-set worked great when LSU has a quarterback that is cabable of making reads and throwing the ball.

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+1000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Never said it was impossible. I asked you to provide examples.

What you gave me was Masoli, who hardly qualifies, a long list of eventual Heisman finalists, and David Greene.

So is it the system, or is it recruiting?

I figure there are two ways of going about the debate against offensive philosophy.

Option 1 is what Kelly, Meyer, Malzhan, and others run
Pros
Easy transition from high school
More instinctive and natural
Imposes itself on the Defense
Cons
Poor transition to NFL
Exposes QB to injury risk
Can be neutralized by equal talent

Option 2 is what LSU, Georgia, Alabama (until recently) run
Pros
Allows Defense to commit themselves and exploits weaknesses
Prepares players for NFL
Cons
More cerebral and difficult to learn progressions

You need a competent QB to run either, but when both systems are implemented appropriately, give me the pro style all day.