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Do you remember the game versus Mississippi State where Dale was mic'd up? Dale didn't draw up one game time situation play. Every TO was a motivational speech. The "group think" in this thread is pretty accurate.

This is EXACTLY correct. Dale did the same thing against Florida. We're down by 1, with the ball, 20 seconds left. Dale was mic'd up (he loved that) and he calls a TO and all he does in the huddle is say, "let's go win the game" for the entire time out. Zero play calling or strategy. Of course, we lost.

Dale did great things for LSU and we're all thankful. But I watched many, many years of Dale's team, and he was NOT a good game day coach.

That's not "groupthink," it's fact.

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Posted by bgtiger

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Posted on 4/14/15 at 9:17 am to atltiger6487

You know that most of the time, coaches aren't "drawing up" plays in huddles right? It's kind of a rarity.

The plays are drawn up and practiced over and over and over again in the preseason and during practice. It's no indictment on Dale that he didn't whip out the grease board for every end of game TO.

I really laugh at this subject because I recently watched a couple of older LSU bball games. I had this narrative in mind and looked for certain things like that.

One was against Nolan Richardson and one was against Pitino. Each end of game time out huddle was filmed.... Dale drew up sets telling each guy where they needed to be while the other coaches did nothing. One wiped his brow with his towel the entire time, and the other yelled at a kid the whole time ,a kid who he didn't even put back into the game.

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