re: What it took to get rid of Crowton

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A new OC came in and ran the old guy's offense.

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Happens pretty much everywhere in a coordinator's first year.

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If this is true, first show some evidence of it

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Is Matt Flynn good enough?

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"Coach Fisher and I had a really good relationship," Matt Flynn said. "He was one of the reasons I came to LSU out of high school. He was a great coach, and he taught me a lot about the sport. I'm a better quarterback because of him. I wasn't very happy to see him go, but he made a good career move and he's going to do well at Florida State and get that program back to where it always has been.

"At the same time, we have a new offensive coordinator here who is doing really good things and I like him a lot. I'm excited to play for him this last year."

Crowton, a former head coach at Louisiana Tech and Brigham Young who also has experience as an offensive coordinator with the University of Oregon and the NFL's Chicago Bears, likes to air things out. Given LSU's wealth of targets at wide receiver and the Tigers' dynamic rushers, Crowton's offense could allow Matt Flynn to make up for lost time this fall.

"I don't think it will be that much different," Matt Flynn said. "There may be a little more shotgun, a little more spread. Other than that, we kept a lot of things from coach Fisher's offense and incorporated them into coach Crowton's offense. All in all, it will look the same. There will just be some new wrinkles."

"What I tried to do is keep as much of the good stuff as I was comfortable handling," Crowton told ESPN.com. "I don't want to try to do things I didn't know how (to do). I added a few things I thought would be productive. At Oregon, we were very spread out. At times, there were some things you miss, certain things in goal-line, short-yardage."

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and second, explain the point of even hiring a coordinator. Why would the new guy come in and abandon his own philosophy?

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A coordinator's entire scheme usually isn't installed until the second season. There usually is a brand new set of terminology and brand new idea behind the offense. So coordinators will slowly incorporate their offense instead of trying to throw something completely new at guys that have been under a different system for years.

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That play should have gotten him fired