Johnny Jones' Interviews

Well, if he needs help learning how to be more critical of his team, then he should head over to Mainieri's office.

He is the anti PM. I don't think he needs to call out individual players for things other than lack of effort but he should call the team out as whole for horrible play like last night. He might also feel like he can't call martin or mickey out without them shutting down because they aren't mentally tough.

Maybe he doesn't know what we're doing wrong. That might explain why he rarely uses TOs: he doesn't know what to change to make it work.

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Was listening to his post-game interview this morning on 104.5 and he didn't have one criticism of the team. All he did was praise Tennessee about how well they shot the ball.
It seems like JJ does this a lot: constantly praises the other teams, points out what we did well, but VERY RARELY points out what we did wrong.

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publicly ridicule his team? for what? your satisfaction?

you have no clue what happens behinds closed doors. I dont have a problem with him praising a team that shot 70fricking% for the night. many of those three's were off balance sprinting off screens with a hand in the face. UT ran an exceptionally technical offense last night and executed it well

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It seems like he's unwilling to admit we simply were outplayed and out-coached....

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It seems like that is exactly what he is doing. You don't have to trash the players to get across the point that you were outplayed. Him praising Tenn is him telling you that we were outplayed.

Johnny has plenty of faults. This is not one of them. I'd much rather a coach lay into his players behind closed doors than to the media.

Just an opinion... Seems and sounds like he's not an X's and O's guy. He's a recruiter, a verbal leader, and motivator, but not a type of coach or personality type like Caliperi or Saban. I don't mind it as much for basketball because I'm not an X's and O's fan of LSU basketball. I appreciate that we're winning under him, and that he can recruit and is building a nice class for next year.

That said, I'm AM an X's and O's guy for football, and I appreciated the hell out of Saban's focus on strategy and would like us to run a cleaner offense (which I think, and have heard from players, is from Miles getting in Cam Cameron's way much of the time). And I think Johnny Jones is like Miles in that he isn't as critical of the game as a whole because he doesn't notice as much. He's not picking it apart he's more of a motivator. So, I can appreciate fans' frustration. A lot of my friends are frustrated.

An aside: I am pretty tired of people hating on some fans by saying they're fair weather fans and tell them to sit back and enjoy us winnning more games than in the past, or usual, or compared to other programs. I'd argue the more you understand the game the more you notice and are unsatisfied with mediocrity, and the more just winning games because of talent isn't as satisfying. Actually, it can be more frustrating to see it go to waste. Doesn't mean you're a crappy LSU fan, just means you're a fan of the sport.