re: Al Bourges of SDSU

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Borges was coordinator at UCLA and his offenses there were outstanding. I think he was at UCLA when they won the NC.

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When did UCLA last win a PAC championship?

Did UCLA ever win a NC in football??

However, I do believe AL Borges to be a major upgrade over GC. And, a solid OC that runs a balanced offense.

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n't they win one when Toledo was there? I may be wrong.

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Heck, I am 56 years old. The only time I remember UCLA being a significant national spotlight was in the mid to late 1960s when Gary Beban was in the running for the Heisman. OJ and USC crashed and burned his chances.

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Didn't they win one when Toledo was there?

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Is it another situation like Tubberville at Auburn? Tubberville would change coordinators, I believe that Borges took the fall for Tubberville and it gained Tubby another year ot two at Auburn. But he refused to get rid of certain assistants and it eventually helped cause his downfall at AU

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Well, Miles has consistently hired good assistants, with Frank Wilson and Ron Cooper being the most successful. So with a few notable exceptions, there's never been a clamor to fire asst. coaches. The fans want to get rid of Crowton more than any other asst. coach/coordinator that I can think of.

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Will Miles let Crowton take him down with him, or does he see the writing on the wall

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The Miles-Crowton dynamic is a strange one, as some people say they are good friends while others say they argue over playcalling, which has supposedly been one of the causes for poor clock management. But the main thing that seems to be keeping Crowton alive, at least last year, was money.

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How do you think Crowton would do if he had an outstanding quarterback?

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He would obviously do better, but that doesn't make him a good coordinator. Cam Newton made Auburn better, Tebow made UF better, etc. With a good QB, our offensive ranking would maybe jump up a good bit into the upper sixties then. Crowton's offense still has major flaws, and I guarentee you that LSU would be better if they hired a good OC.

I would take Borges at LSU in a heartbeat.I'll wait until Miles actually gets rid of Crowton before i get my hopes up about anyone.Heard the rumors of Florida but the popular theory now is that both of their coordinators are alredy hired and are coming from the NFL.Just what is being talked about.I don't know how true it is.

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I saw LSU in person this year and with an offense that team would have been dominant

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That's pretty much been the thoughts of all LSU fans.

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How good is your talent at running back? Not meant as a flame, but I wasn't impressed with your running game. Running game was really hurt by a lack of a balanced offense

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Well, our starter Steven Ridley is 1st team ALL-SEC, so the talent is there. Despite an average o-line and terrible passing game, Ridley put up almost 1100 yards rushing and 14 TDs.

LSU just needs an OC that isn't an overthinking moron.

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I believe that Borges took the fall for Tubberville and it gained Tubby another year ot two at Auburn.

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Auburn went like 11-2 in 2006 and had a another solid season in 07 even with Kodi Burns playing QB cause of Cox injury issues.

So not sure how the firing of Borges helped Tubby gain another year of two like you said, cause he was fired in 08.

I have been on the Borges bandwagon FOREVER (or at least the past year lol). He is the absolute perfect guy to be the OC here at LSU. The position coaches do the recruiting so he wouldn't have to worry about that.

Bring Borges to Baton Rouge.

And to the OP its Borges !

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and had a another solid season in 07 even with Kodi Burns playing QB cause of Cox injury issues.

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Uh, no. Kodi came in after Cox was benched as we started 1-2, and after halftime of the New Mexico State game our team became legit with Cox at the helm.

I don't remember Cox going out with injury, and any plays Kodi was in on was situational at best.

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So not sure how the firing of Borges helped Tubby gain another year of two like you said, cause he was fired in 08.

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...no he was not. Borges was fired before the bowl game in 2007 because our offense was terrible, mainly because of our WRs which sucked nuts. We hired Tony Franklin and our offense was fiya in the Chik-Fil-A Bowl as we beat Clemson. Then, in 2008, our offense was LSU-esque and our team sucked.

Man speedy, you're on top of this.

It would be a slam dunk hire.