re: According to 247 Insiders, Curtis Johnson is the top option for LSU PGC Opening

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You people believe anything.

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Y'know, this isn't as hard as people are making it out to be.

LSU had phenomenal WRs. They had an accurate QB who knew where those WRs were going to be. They had a very aggressive offensive philosophy, going 3 WR every down and usually splitting the TE and RB out too.
The basic approach is, you won't stop them 3 plays in a row, and if 1 play succeeds you get a 1st down.
You force the defense to focus so much on the pass, that the runs are devastating when they occur.
You plot several plays at a time, so if/when you get a 1st down you can go uptempo and start making it an extended mismatch against defenses used to chessmatch styles (Saban, etc).

The key isn't the play, it's the players and the aggression. You have to have the elite WRs (and LSU has had them), and the accurate QB (we haven't, but we finally did and showed LSU can be a place to come to).
And the aggression- which flows downstream from the top.

Miles hit the parking brake, didn't want to take chances. O's doing the opposite, and this season it worked.

If we get Johnson, he should help the WRs, and I'm pretty sure he knows enough plays to add some new wrinkles in. The question is if O allows E to call the same aggressive style, and if Brennan looks downfield or at the checkdown.