Can someone explain what Lou Tepper's defensive scheme was?

fricking Awful! Have players watch as they gave up lots of yards and touchdowns.

"drop linebacker"

He made Thomas Dunson the greatest linebacker in the history of LSU.

They read his book and then reacted by achieving new levels of suckdom.

He was a big 10 guy, watch Penn State's defense today, that was it, I remembered a lot of zone. Zero blitzes, and the idea was the players would diagnose the play and stop it. Well shite, by that point Spurrier had completed a 20 yard pass. It made UGA Carter look like Dan Marino one night in TS. For a historically defensive school like LSU it as horrific to see people run up and down the field.

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"drop linebacker"

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Clark Kent would have had a tough time meeting the requirements of what he called a drop linebacker. I am not joking either. Their are only handful of players in history that had the physical ability to do what he required of the person that played that position.

Yeah, it was basically each defensive player had keys they needed to identify as the play developed, their assignment differed based on those keys. Not the greatest plan for a college defense were there is constant roster turnover...lots of thinking/hesitation.

I think his drop linebacker at Illinois was Hardy. Two of the guys he had at his disposal went in the top 5 picks of the NFL.draft...probably made his scheme look better than it was.

In his defense, it took 5 years to implement the defense and they didn't give him enough time.

It was a 3-4 (similar to Saban's) The difference was that it was reactive rather than being a proactive defense. It did not work. The players would literally just stand there and try to adjust after the play started. It was so pathetic that Tepper had a chalk board on the sideline and would hold class with the defense during the games.

I nearly quit watching LSU football in those very dark days.

it was like Larry,Curley,and Mo