re: After viewing the spring game, how much blame did Gary Crowton deserve?

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You expect after 2 months to see a vast improvement in QB play?

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No. People expect after 3 years to see vast improvement in QB play.

But before he was practicing just to practice. Now that has changed.

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I have literally never seen another team at any level ever use that little pitch dive.

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That's because it's literally no fricking different than a handoff. That's Les' baby though.

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So with all that in depth analysis of how Mies pulls the wool over the fan base eyes, why did you come to The Rant asking this question when you already had so much inside info.

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That's because it's literally no fricking different than a handoff. That's Les' baby though.

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it gets the ball in the back's hands a second quicker, giving him a little more time to use vision to find gaps.

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Miles cares about 1 thing and that's winning games.

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"I admit I'm loyal to a fault."

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TheBob584

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The vanilla playbook excuse was used last spring game, and continued throughout the entire fricking season.

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While I agree that is the usual excuse, our punter, Wing, was, for a fact, asked to punt with his right foot during the spring game so as to hid any advantage LSU may have in the punting game.

Fact of the matter is LSU does not open the season against McNeese at home this year. We will be on the road against the National Champion runner-up. Now, more than ever, we need to keep every advantage we may have to ourselves.

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Choctaw

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I admire your passion for LSU and Miles as the coach. I agree that he is only concerned with winning games and he is not going to intentionally harm the teams chances of that because he has some sort of agenda with Jefferson.

That being said, I think it is quite possible that this will go down as a mistake on his part for playing JJ so much. While he may think it is the right call 100%, he is not infallible. There have been far greater coaches than Miles that have made similar mistakes, so it is not a knock on him, but I do believe it will be proven that he was wrong with his QB choice this year.

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Les does touch the offense, hell, there are stories that his offensive line coach(s) have had to come in behind him after he's just finished coaching someone and tell them to disregard whatever he just told them.

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While I disgree with most of your post, this is true, I've heard it from former Olineman

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At what point in Les' career has he lost less than 2 games?

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I think this is a good question. But it brought to mind the heart of the discontent in some quarters, at least in mine. I have bought the hype that we have nothing but talented receivers, RBs, O & D linesmen, a strong defense, really good special teams - all championship caliber type players because CLM and his staff have recruited at a very high level. And yes, losing more than 2 games in a year under CLM has been an exception, not the rule for much of his tenure. And yet... with all that talent, we don't have QB play to match, we have spent years and tons of words blaming Perrileaux's demise for a lot of it.

But fact is, that was years ago and we have this Senior pair of QBs who don't show much in the way of having been coached well enough or learned enough to play at the SEC level they should be playing at. Now these guys are not physical wrecks or deficient in general ability. And I am not asking them to be All-SEC or All-American Heisman candidates. But given their level of ability, by now I would have expected to see something consistent in their play, improvement, positive growth on their parts - more than an incremental show, a random series, more than an occasional game among games.

And with that expectation, which is not unreasonable, I can't help but dream about all this talent and a reasonably decent QB playing in that role, what LSU and CLM could have accomplished in all these previous 2 or 3 loss seasons we've played - and will be entering as a pre-season #1. With all this talent, we maybe could have gone unbeaten and set a kind of LSU dynasty in motion.

But heck, just unbeaten would be cool. Saban did it at Alabama, it happened not so long ago at Auburn, it happened at Florida under Urban. I can't help asking "why not at LSU?"

And then along comes another Spring Game and we hear a pile of hype that tells us JJ is new, improved and ready to hit a new level of play. But we see what we saw, more of the same. Will that be the story of yet another 2 or 3 loss LSU season, with all this talent? Tune in for the Oregon game friends and we'll see.

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that's why they fired Crowton

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Oh... thanks, I didn't know that.