re: What percentage of the blame do you put on the players ability vs the coaching staff?

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80% on coaches/20% players.

There are PLENTY of teams with equal or worse talent that had much better defenses.

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Exactly.

The personnel is why this defense wasn't great...or even really good. The abysmal coaching is why they weren't at least average. Which is ALL this team needed them to be with how good the offense was. This wasn't the most talented LSU defense ever. Far from it. But it had equal, if not more, talent than mid-tier major conf. defenses.

This wasn't a "bad" season by any means. But it will ALWAYS go down as a wasted opportunity.