LSU OC Cam Cameron To Take $300,000 Pay Cut With Extension

This is what happens when you put friendships above winning. Cam has never had a feel for the game, never will. He wouldn't even make a good position coach. Lsu has so much talent but bad coaching, especially from the coordinator position.

Cam was fired by the Ravens for running Miles' same "Stone Age" offense - conservative, archaic, predictable, sitting on 7-10 point leads, relying on the defense to win, and refusing to open up the offense with tempo/HUNH and spread passing tactics mixed with Run-Pass-Option plays which puts any defense on it’s heels, prevents subs, opens up the whole field, especially the middle, and defines the the most successful FBS and NFL teams. "The Ravens passing game wasn’t sophisticated. There weren’t a lot of rubs, crossing patterns, motion or a variety of sets. The Ravens seldom attacked the middle of the field and Cameron didn’t have a feel for games. He ran when he should have passed and passed when he should have run." Cam, always on the hot seat, was fired after 2 losses with only 3 games to go in 2012. Harbaugh and QB coach Caldwell (Manning's former HC) opened the offense: "We're cutting loose on offense. We're going to spread them out, run no-huddle, attack on every play, put the ball in Joe's hands. He's going to win the games for us." Shotgun, spread, tempo/HUNH, 3 WR sets and Flacco calling the plays instantly transformed the Ravens into an explosive 'offensive identity team' something conservative Cam could not do in 5 yrs and has never done. Flacco set the all time record in the 3 postseason games throwing 11 TDs, O INTs, averaging nearly 300 yds passing and 460 yds of offense/gm. Result: Super Bowl, MVP, and a 110 million contract.

This is how the "Good 'ole Bo" system works: MilesBo hires his buddy CamBo after he is fired and retains him after a stretch of the 3 worst SEC years in Miles tenure. LSU has the talent but lacks a bona fide QB/OC guru, which Cam has never been, an offensive change agent like Swinney/Chad Morris at Clemson, Saban/Kiffin, Meyer/Tom Herman, Briles, Patterson, Freeze, Malzahn, etc. Jackson, Zorn, and Caldwell were Flacco's QB coaches, not Cam. The uber-talented Harris was put in 3rd downs that averaged over 8+ yds with a run-blocking OL that failed all year at the much more difficult task of pass protection. Harris was sacked/hit 8 times vs ALA, injuring his shoulder, knee, and groin, and 5 times vs ARK, and constantly threw under pressure to well-covered receivers. ALA, ARK, and OM shut down the Heis-Man one-dimensional offense and LSU was outscored 99-47 in three straight losses, a growing double digit differential. Booger McFarland says the lack of offensive development/evolution, especially at QB and in Passing, have been constants under Miles tenure and since 2011 have only accelerated with Cam. LINK

Cam was making 1.5 last year, not 1.2. He took a pay it. Period. I don't give a rats arse about the source of funding.

Everybody's blaming Cam for our offensive shortcomings. Who benches LF7 the whole 4th quarter every game? Who made Cam call predictable plays in clutch situations instead of allowing his offense staff run the offense? Who didn't allow Cam the option of letting Young loose early in the season so that he would be comfortable by mid-season? Les needs to step back and allow his offensive coordinator and offense staff to do what they are paid to do. Cause it looks like your paying them a big chunk of change to do it.

Paycut my arse. This contract is more than his first contract was. My God Fournette is saving his arse from goobers who still think the offense was good last year. I read in a Q&A how D Craig is helping the QBs with new drills based on touch passing and the short passing game (something we desperately need). I want to see is some semblance of balance to the offense and competent passing. I want to see more creativity in the passing game AND running game. Take a page out of what these power run spread teams do (Houston, Clemson, Ohio State, UNC to an extent). That should work very well for a team like LSU.

Im pretty sure that was only the case in the first 2 years of his contract. LSU forked over all 1.5 million last year.

This is not a paycut. This is indeed a raise. Lsu was only paying Cam 700k a year. The ravens had a contract with Cam and had to pay the 800k which took his pay to 1.5m a year. Boy, bad reporting.

This is wrong and misleading..Lsu was only oaying Cam $700k a year. The ravens was paying the rest of the 800k. This is indeed a oay raise.

OK, that's fair. Not many coaches of his stature would tolerate a pay cut. Kudos to Cam for going along with the plan.

He's getting paid well above his market value. We could have done better just like we did with Aranda.

Please tell me how this improves his coaching skills? 2016: More of the same.

LINK Still in the top 10 salaries. Just stupid.

Money well spent! And now that we're taxed to death, might as well win a championship.

That's correct. His initial contract was 3 years for $3.4 Million, while this one is 3 years for $3.75 Million. That means he got a raise of over $100k per year or roughly 10.3%. So no, Jim Kleinpeter, he did not take a pay cut.

It is not really a pay cut. It is more than what his last contract averaged him. Remember Cam's last contract was back loaded, the Ravens were still paying him at the beginning of his first contract.

The amount he makes compared to the product on the field is absurd.

Gotta wonder why he signs a pay cut? does he know that his production wouldn't earn him another coordinator spot somewhere else?

He sure did not deserve a raise!!