re: Gary Crowton fired after 1 year at Maryland

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We ran the same offense we run now except for a few plays and for some tweaks that Crowton would put in week to week.Second year he puts in more of his stuff and the fall off begins. That was his history everywhere he went because he was added to a staff. This time he is there with a new staff and put in his offense on day 1.

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I understand all that. Like I said, hindsight is 20/20. All I'm saying is that its hard to justify firing a guy that ran the most potent offense in LSU history and won a NC as the OC. Regardless of how much he tweaked/modified Jimbo's offense in '07 he still called the plays and did a great job that year. Plus I think he was given more time to get it together after RP was kicked off the team because Les and Alleva knew that our QB situation was a setback that would have hindered any OC. I still would have let him go after '09 but to fire him before that would have been retarded at the time.