re: Dural: Harris "leading the way a quarterback is supposed to"

The same people that complain about Jennings' 48% completions want Harris in when he completed what, 3 passes vs Auburn.


Harris may well take the job over the summer and that'd be great if it works out that way, but literally everyone outside of this board including Harris himself said he wasn't ready last year.

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The only practice I have to go by is the spring game but this sounds like exactly what happened last year.

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The competition for the dumbass post of the day heats up.

You see one, ONE practice and make a decision?
I can tell that you played sports a lot.

Hype is media money And negative posters help keep the hype going !

This is above your pay grade holmes

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Now show their completion percentages

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Harris 38%

Jennings 53%

Harris was wildly inaccurate yet still accounted for 4 TD's and 0 TO's. Jennings was somewhat accurate and the D scored more points than he did.

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I would think any competent head coach would value practice performance over glimpses of in-game brilliance.

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This is the stupidest fricking thing I've read in this thread, and that's saying a lot.

Practice doesn't mean shite. Games do. If Harris can win you games with his flashes of brilliance over Jennings and his great practices, anyone not a moron would take the better game performer.

ETA: and no one that's been at the practices has even said that Jennings has been great there.

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Practice doesn't mean shite. Games do. If Harris can win you games with his flashes of brilliance over Jennings and his great practices, anyone not a moron would take the better game performer.

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This is the stupidest fricking thing I've read in this thread, and that's saying a lot.

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Practice doesn't mean shite relative to what you said. Obviously it means something. Nice job cherry picking and deflecting from the stupid point that you would take a better practice player over a better in game performer.

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It seems that Jennings is much better in practice than in games. Les comes from the old school that places a greater value on practice than game performance. He will not pick Harris until he is better than Jennings IN PRACTICE. Game performance won't matter because Harris won't get into games. In Les's mind, he thinks " I know Jennings is better in practice but I gave Harris his shot (Auburn) and he couldn't do it. So no need to put him on the field again."

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It seems you are suggesting Miles played the guy who consistently performed better in practice ahead of the guy who consistently performed worse in practice, and then played worse the one time he did get a shot at game time. And you seem to be suggesting that's a bad thing. Why? Because the Rant "knows" that Harris is "clearly" the better option? Wouldn't someone who's "clearly" the better option have outperformed the other guy somewhere along the way, either in practice or in his game performance?

I guess I'm wondering where and when Harris performed so much better than Jennings that proved without question that he was "clearly" the better option last year?

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The apples to apples comparison was the Auburn game, where he started and was specifically gameplanned against.

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There is no true apples to apples. Jennings played that game as well and was equally ineffective in relief.

Fact of the matter, talent doesn't equal success at the QB position. Neither of these QB's have shown themselves to be capable of leading LSU to a national championship and every single one of us should be cautious with our expectations for them. Hope to God one of them improves so we don't have to see shitty play again and maybe it's good enough to win a SEC championship. As much as Les Miles angers me at times, I guarantee he will start Harris if he looks like Cam Newton out there. Miles wants the super athlete that can't be stopped. If that guy isn't there, he falls into the conservative guy strategy that is the "safe choice".