re: What is this boards obsession with air raid type offenses?

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Oklahoma, FAU, and USF all had rushing offenses ranked higher than LSU

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Ouch

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You realize that Oklahoma, FAU, and USF all had rushing offenses ranked higher than LSU? Hell OK State isn’t that far behind LSU.

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The thing this kind of analysis misses, which I know as a fan of a team that ran the spread and is GLAD to be leaving it, is that those are not the same kind of running yards. Not all rushing yards are the same or accomplish the same thing.

Spread teams get running yards the same way that play-action gets passing yards.

Spread running yards are all gimme, misdirection, “we tricked you into putting too few in the box” yards.

Spread running yards are not imposing your will, grinding out the clock, crushing the other team’s confidence yards.

If y’all become a finesse team you will regret it, just like we did. The true recipe for success for LSU would be to keep your legacy of punishing ground and pound rushing intact but find some way to incorporate competency at the QB position.

Going to a spread would be throwing the baby out with the bath water. I’m telling y’all.