re: The Decline Started Before O

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How?

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Botched assistant hires (Canada for one, we still don't know about ensminger), shitty recruiting, losing our first home OOC game in over a decade, etc

How?

It seems like status quo

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IMO, O accelerates it every time he opens his mouth before he thinks or asks around to tell him what to say. He doesn't know what he wants as concerns an offensive scheme. Not having that specificity shuts down recruits that are comfortable with a certain style and approach to play.

If he did what he promised; to hire the best Coordinators and then let him coach to the style that they excelled at, then O wouldn't be accelerating the downward spiral at the current pace we presently are.

O let his ego get in the way. He wasn't smart enough to stand back and let Canada work his scheme, recognizing there were going to be growing pains, but that the players were buying into it and learning and we'd see proof of results in 2018 and beyond. O wasn't willing to let the team take some on the chin while getting the future QB critical experience. O cared more about winning in 2017 and to hell with the future. When O let his pride get in the way ["I'm the head coach and what I say goes"] that's when the wheels started falling off the cart as concerns QB recruiting, forcing a change of OC, creating an environment where a highly successful OC wouldn't want to come to LSU to play under O, etc.

So, today we continue rolling down the road with no clear offensive direction and the aim to not make a decision on a starting QB until just before game time against Miami. How can that happen when you have three different QBs with pretty much different strengths to how they play? Doing so will continue to perpetuate acceleration.