re: Lowell Narcisse has played 3 games since 2015

I have heard coaches say that players need to play to develop, but one of my chief complaints about LSU under Miles was that LSU far too often played down to inferior competition. This is not too uncommon in college football, but the really good coaches find ways to maintain a reasonably consistent level of effort regardless of the opponent. Also, Miles usually wanted a 4 touchdown lead before playing his backups, and when the starters slop around and allow an inferior opponent to hang closer than that for three quarters, our backups often didn't get as much playing time as they could have had. Also, when they did get in the game, Miles insisted on them mainly running the ball and throwing only on third down (to "secure victory"), and the opposing defenses knew that we were going to play safe (run, run, safe pass). It's tough for any offense to keep a drive going under those conditions. Maybe its necessary to some extent to restrict the backups (who have had fewer practice reps) to the simplest parts of the offense, but with Miles it seemed far too conservative. I hope to God that Orgeron and Canada put an end to starters "taking games off" and then coaching ultra conservative when backups do get in.