re: Steve Ensminger new LSU TE coach

This is a good hire --- 1. bringing back LSU & Louisiana guys to the staff i.e. Frank and Steve is good. Secondly, he can coach TE's & offense. Thirdly, he can coach QB's.

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Steve Ensminger

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thought he use to be a QB?

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thought he use to be a QB?

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He did in the late 70's. I have no idea how good he was. Apparently split time with Woodley. I don't think you need to be a rocket scientist to be a TE coach though.

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One poster made a point about blaming Ensminger for Jason Campbell's abysmal career at Auburn and the fact that Campbell is playing with the Redskins. For those that don't remember Campbell was basically Jordan Jefferson until his senior year. Then all of a sudden a light bulb clicked on and he had a good senior year. I also remember Campbell as a senior making a gutsy fourth quarter drive against LSU that beat us. He clearly developed under Ensminger's watch.

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because he was good the year Al Borges coached him?

Cute image, but like most of your post in this thread it lacks substance.

Carry on with your bitch fest and your we are doomed cause of a TE coaching hire agenda.

Now if we can just get Robiskie to coac RB's.

......this board is loaded with current or former coaches rendering their expert opinion, right !?

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Dude was known as "shite-slinger" by fan corps, and it wasn't because his throwing was "the shite". Not a favorable reaction to his time in the saddle.

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And just how do you know this? Were you on the team? If so, who are you?

I never said or even implied SE was a better qb than David Woodley. I don't think he was. But he was no slouch either and had either of them been LSU's sole qb instead of splitting time as they did, they would have ended up among LSU's all-time best.

Mac began using 2 qb's after he had such a bad run with Pat Screen and Nelson Stokley. He said he would never again rely on just a single player, that he would always have a 2nd qb ready to play in case the starter got hurt and the only way to do that was to ensure that the #2 got adequate playing time and experience.

He made no secret of this and any qb coming to LSU at the time knew he would split time with somebody else if he played, even Bert Jones.

And speaking of Bert, Paul Lyons was the better qb until Bert's jr. year. As a matter of fact for those who don't know it, Lyons set a then NCAA record for total offense in a game at Wisconsin in I believe 1971.

The situation with Bert and Paul Lyons was similar to what happened with JJ, JL and RP.
Bert was never supposed to play as early as he did and Lyons was supposed to remain on defense. LSU had one of the top qb's in the country out of hs in Trey Prather. He was in the same class as Terry Bradshaw and Joe Ferguson and Bradshaw always said he was the best of the bunch. But Prather lost his desire to play, ended up in Viet Nam and stepped on a mine, blew his legs off and died. He was supposed to follow Butch Duhe who died of a brain hemmorage just prior to the '70 season opener against A&M. All this reinforcing Mac's practice of using 2 qb's.

Jones eventually turned out to be LSU's only AA at qb, receiving every AA honor in 1972 except the AP which went to John Hufnagel at Penn St. He didn't become the starter until the '71 ND game and he didn't find out he was starting until just before ko.

I've been watching LSU fb since '58 and Bert Jones is bar none the best qb I ever saw at LSU.

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we should have just fired crowton instead of trying to hire a staff of guys to help prop him up for his short comings

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I'm late getting into this thread, but this is the most profound quote I've read so far.

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because he was good the year Al Borges coached him?

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That's funny because total passing yards went down every year after Al Borges took over quarterbacks...