re: Why do LSU fans settle for mediocrity at the QB position?

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ETA: I'm agreeing with you, just adding my 2 pennies

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That's the way I took it. I agree in the 'total team' concept, but frankly I think we could have been a lot better over the last 8-10 years in the passing game while still maintaining the style of play/ system that we use if we just had a decent QB coach. Hopefully Kragthorpe is able to be that guy for us going forward.....

I suggest that you personally contact Coach Miles and Aleva and tell them you aren't gonna take it any more, and that you aren't gonna settle for mediocrity at the QB position.

BTW, Miles recruited an excellent QB recently who decided to play baseball instead. He also recruited the no. 1 rated JC QB in the country this past year. Rivers was also a reasonably strong prospect who signed with LSU.

It is also easier to recruit a Louisiana QB to LSU, but
apparently there haven't been many decent ones. JJ was certainly expected to be a better QB than we have seen.

JL, from Texas, hasn't been the QB that everyone hoped he would be, either. Sometimes things just don't go as expected. It happens. Alabama fans aren't all that sure yet about McCarron this year, for example. Ole Miss has struggled at the position. Florida struggled last year.

The RP situation has definitely had an impact on LSU over the last several years.

But, at any rate, I am sure your views expressed to the administration will have a positive impact on the situation.

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It seems to me that Florida or Alabama or other SEC schools have no problems blowing away non-conference cup cake teams 72-10, 65-3 or whatever, but for some reason LSU has a problem doing the same. I don't get it.

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So what? It makes you feel good to watch a team blast some smaller school in that way?

Apparently your not bright enough to understand that it is not that they can't it is that Les won't.

Especially the in state schools. LM is not going to completely embarrass them that way.

I hear ya, but fact is LSU has always been a semi-balanced attack (having to lean to the run too much), but thankfully with an explosive single play ability and special teams.

I've always wished they pass more, but this is the SEC, which is not like the pass-loving conferences of the West. Also, Les Miles is a Big 10-minded coach.


The above said, bungled coaching hires/rehires and QB recruiting has perpetuated a high reliance to the run.

Here the great LSU QBs of the last 22 years, looking at total yards passing and TDs:

Tommy Hodson
Rohan Davey
Matt Mauck
JaMarcus Russell

Of course, anything is possible in the future, and our QB future is looking brighter.

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All of this is fine until when we get behind by over 2 touchdowns and are forced to pass to win a game, we don't seem to have QBs who can put the offense on their shoulders and win the game single handedly for the team.

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and we get behind by 2 td's how often? you dwell in a world of statistics. i dwell in a world of winning.

when you have 40-50 rushes per game.. somethings gonna take a hit.

Stupid post. Passing yardage has nothing to do with winning championships. Running the ball, stopping the run, specials teams, and limiting turnovers is the proven recipe for winning. You sound like a stat whore.

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Granted I have only been following LSU football since 2003 bada
bing bada boom
don't start threads. EVER



Only way this is acceptable is if he is 13 years old.

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well he posted this too:

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in the dark here and my wife is sleeping next to me.

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So Im thinking if he lives in Arkansas, he could be 13, the rest of the country he's atleast legal


and his tread starting days should be over

God, I hate our fans sometimes.