I've been doing some research on Kragthorpe...

after exchanging a few e-mails with some folks over the past week, and I have an admission to make: I have NO CLUE what Kragthrope is going to mean to our offense beyond conceptual ideas.

What I mean by "conceptual" is that I understand that Kragthrope means a return to what Jimbo found very successful here at LSU. Jimbo was a "multiple" OC, in that he liked to use multiple formations as an Offensive Coordinator. Out of those multiple formations, he ran the same basic plays. They repped them so much at practice, that his elite athletes and all that familiarity with execution produced hellacious results, over the long haul, and with several different cast of offensive playmaking characters.

(Crowton was the extreme definition of "multiple"; it proved detrimental to LSU's fortunes)

That's not to say we'll only see one or two formations. It's just that we will run more plays out of each of the formations that we do cut our playbook down to feature. Less exotic formations, more plays run out of the same formations, if that makes sense.

Kragthorpe interviews all the way back to his Tulsa days talks about putting the "best 11" on the field (sound familiar?), and then finding ways to put the ball in playmakers hands while confusing the defense in doing it.

He goes on to consistently mention that a defensive coordinator is constantly looking not just for formation tendencies or tells in order to call plays, but also at personnel groupings.

I take this to mean not only that we'll have more plays run out of fewer formations (more counters out of the same looks, etc), but we'll be flexible in personnel, as well. Hopefully, this will mean that if we go 4 wide receivers and use Wright & Boone, we aren't just gonna run the ball or throw a Hail Mary).

So, I see conceptual changes and tweaks of our offense, but I have absolutely no idea about what to expect from Kragthorpe in the pass-game.

Has anyone been doing any research on this that they want to share?