re: Brandon Harris/ LF7/ AJ Videos, Scrimmage Videos, Spring Break 4/12 Updates

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Once we became one dimensional, our ground game dominated games for us.

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What dominant games were you referring to? When did we lead by 21 in the second half vs a P5 school?

Predictable and one-dimensional describes the whole year. The 1.8 YPA in the first half of the Wisconsin game, the season defining 4 and out at the MSST 2 yd line with MSST saying they could read every play, basically the same play. That went on for 3.7 Qtrs, 75,000 people walked out and the shoulder stinger that I had hoped would give Harris a shot in the first half finally got him in the game when AJ got dinged again, down 3 scores he got 2 minutes of playing time, he showed he could have pulled it out from the spread against a team that was giving up over 400 yds passing. Bad play calling. It was always the same pattern, pound the rock with 2TEs against a stacked box, no spread, no runners or receivers in space, until you get behind and then open it up in the second half and try to make up the deficit. In 128 games Miles has been behind in 50, 40%, and is 25-25.

[/quote] Give me a dominant run game with a complementary passing attack any day as opposed to vice versa. 2013 is the ideal. We could throw any time we wanted, but were able to lean on Hill to get tough yards and burn clock to close out games.[/quote] The 2012 60/40 is a balanced attack and not one-dimensional.

Your original reply was to this part of my Chavis post:
And to those "3rd and Chavis folks", Miles has trailed in 50 of his games in the fourth quarter, the big games, putting the pressure on Chavis to get the stops and he did against Ole Miss despite two late INTs, 2X in the final 1 min and 18 seconds against ALA with LSU enjoying a 2:1 TOP and not able to score on a fumble at the 6 for the win, then Ark set a 40 yr low. In the last 4 SEC games we had 3 passing TDs, 4 Ints, a couple of fumbles, 1 rushing TD, a bunch of sacks, and that is the lowest PPM scoring efficiency in the nation by a huge margin. TOP does not mean anything if you have an inept ground game going against a more efficient and explosive offense. LSU was 9th this year in TOP and 5th in Scoring Defense, with the D having a higher scoring efficiency than the O, 49th in TOP in 2013. Oregon both years was around 118 and 114 and still hanging 550 yds and 60 pts on everyone. TOP for LSU meant the D gave the O the ball and the O could not score.

In 2014, 70/30, one dimensional, we ran 25% more than 2013 and scored only 60% as many rushing TDs. The run game could not score. A FG is considered an unsuccessful drive. Have you read: The Five Factors: College Football's Most Important Stats?

If you win the explosiveness battle (using PPP), you win 86 percent of the time.
If you win the efficency battle (using Success Rate), you win 83 percent of the time.
If you win the drive-finishing battle (using points per trip inside the 40), you win 75 percent of the time.
If you win the field position battle (using average starting field position), you win 72 percent of the time.
If you win the turnover battle (using turnover margin), you win 73 percent of the time

TOP as shown is not a relevant stat: we were 2:1 against ALA and lost. Oregon was l18 and had the highest ppm, and second highest Total Scoring Efficiency before their post-season destruction of FSU. They only lost to OSU because they ran out of receivers, their best pre-season to injury, and suspension.

LSU is so far down these lists that we finished the season unranked.

Points Per Minute Rankings 2014 LSU 95th

Final Scoring Efficiency P5 teams prior to post season ALA, Ore, TCU, OSU