this criticism of chavis is absolutely absurd (long)

the stupidity on the rant has reached astronomical levels since the ole miss loss.

I would just love for someone to cite one defense in the history of college football who lost 7 starters, six of them juniors, to the nfl, the next season had two true freshman starting at cb/nickel, and fielded a defense anywhere near the top 50, much less 25th in the fricking nation.

When you have fricking 18 year old kids as your cover corners, and your only other cover corner with experience (mills) has a tendency to get burned deep, AND your front four consistently fails to get pressure on their own, the only real option is to play zone. Why the frick do you think HS defenses run 90% zone defenses? They're easy for the kids to understand and execute and prevent big plays.

When we had the best secondary in cfb you didnt hear a goddamn word about "third and chavis" because with those athletes, combined with experience, you can run bump and run, combo zones, zone blitzes, whatever. Try incorporating those schemes into a secondary with kids barely old enough to buy a fricking pack of cigarettes, you are virtually guaranteed a couple blown assignments and busted coverage per game, and against a team with any decent qb, those are gonna be six every time.

And as for the argument that he only fielded top defenses because he relied on talent? Please refer to the University of Texas defense under Many Diaz. UT had and still has just as many high nfl draft picks on defense, a front seven loaded with 5 star recruits, and fielded the worst defense in UT history last season. they were 90th in the country in rush defense for christ sake. Talent alone can not, has not, and will never make a great defense. Just look at TCU. They field one of the best defenses in the country with half the talent.

Coaches have to scheme for teams based on their players strengths and weaknesses. If we had been blitzing more frequently and leaving our dbs on an island, the second one of them gets burned the rants response would be "omg jalen mills sucks put in some other player i know nothing about, chavis is so overrated"

I'm it's just ridiculous. The guy is easily a top 5 DC, has a stellar record over like 15+ seasons in the SEC, is fielding a defense with multiple 18-19 olds starting, then defense has semed to improve as the seasons gone on, but we lose one game to a team that always plays us tough, and half the fanbase wants him fired.

over the past ten years, the LSU fanbase has turned from one of the most die hard, passionate, optimistic fanbases in the country to the most cynical, spoiled, half assed group of people, and i'm downright embarrassed how fast these "fans" turned on both some of their players and coaches after one fricking game. I mean miles has a laundry thing of things to give him flak about, but to even consider tat john chavis should be fired...just unreal.