re: Marcus Spears brings the heat: Leonard Fournette was done a disservice by LSU

Guess it depends on your definition of "disservice". IMO, it was a poor choice of words by Spears; disservice is way to strong of a word.

A disservice would have been:
A) benching LF7 for the O's poor performance (even for a qtr)
B) not preparing him for the NFL
C) not giving him the tools needed to prepare himself
D) running him into the ground

a) never happened, poor overall offensive performances were never put on LF7's shoulders by anyone, coaching staff, fans, or admin.

b) he got better every year, was drafted 1st rd in a league that doesn't place RBs at the top of the priority list

c) he got physically better every year, especially bigger/stronger while at least maintaining speed and change of direction (he got faster and more nimble too IMO).

d) he was not run into the ground based on # of carries. Definitely had to have harder runs than normal running into D's waiting on him. However, some of his best runs came then; it only helped his draft stock from the POV as a disservice to LF7 on a personal level.

While LF7 derserves, obviously, a heap of credit for putting in the work nothing LSU, Miles, or Staff did inhibited that. They only enhanced it. Hence I think the idea of a "disservice" is wrong. Would he have won a heisman if the offense had been better as a whole? Likely. But that's not a disservice in my book. Missed opportunity- yes.