Cole Smith question

He's just not very good at football.

Smith was truly just way overpowered. Ika (true freshman) made him his b*tch in the spring game. He's simply not strong/big enough to play SEC football. We knew he needed to get bigger once he came in but in a year's time he made little progress there. Dont pay attention to what Paul Jones said on the MSU 247 board, he's just looking at depth chart and we only had 2 centers last year, hence he was default #2. Watch our spring game and you'll see Smith looked really bad.

We're moving Chasen Hines to center (Ed Ingram on his way back) and if Smith stuck around he would have gotten beaten out easily by him.

I was a big fan of Cole Smith coming out of high school. He played nasty and you always want that in a center but he was just overmatched by true SEC size. He looks to be doing all he can just to be about 285 lbs so he gets eaten up by big 320+ nose tackles. He might very well be a good player for MS State in a rebuilding time but LSU is going for championships and they need big uglies all across the line. Chasen Hines is much stronger and better equipped to handle SEC power.