re: This board is poison!

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Here's a major reason why many LSU football fans are upset/concerned/frustrated/pissed about where the football program sits right now.

I've heard many great coaches talk about results oriented evaluation vs performance oriented evaluation. Bertman spoke of this often in his speeches. Lombardi, Chuck Knoll, Wooden & many others have all mentioned this in some form or fashion & it makes perfect sense.

The basic premise is that at certain times (during a season, during a game, during a drive, during an inning) it is more important to be concerned only with results....the outcome, regardless of how you get that result. Example is with a runner on 3rd, < 2 outs, infield back, you can have as bad a swing as you want as long as you hit a ground ball & score the run. There are only so many instances when results oriented trumps performance oriented.
The vast majority of the time, however, players & coaches are performance oriented in their evaluation b/c in the long run, that is what will determine success (including wins & losses).
Dismissing the downward trend in the performance of this program over the past years is a bad move IMO. Hyping a 5-1 YTD record is results oriented & is fool's gold. What if we'd played TU & LT b/4 UF? We'd be 7-0 with the most difficult teams yet to play. The only record that matters is at season's end. We were 5-1 last year & finished terrible. It could easitly happen this year unless major adjustments are made. Objectively looking at the way the team has played the past 2 years, I can't think of any reason drastic adjustments will be made.
If you think that the performance of this program is at a high level then fine, I wish I had your blind, peaches & cream outlook. If you're happy with a 5-1 record, you're results oriented and not focused on the big picture.
Two years ago (when the performance started going down), many people wondered how many times LSU could pull out the closest of close wins. Last year the results caught up to the performance. This year, with the most diffucult part of the SEC schedule ahead, it's likely to happen again unless there are huge changes.

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