re: Charlie Hanigriff (post game, last night)

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Charlie, last night, was critical of how our coaches do in player development especially the O line, QB, and receivers. He said our two RB's "are what they are." He said they were all (not RBs) regressing instead of getting better. I thought that was a strong criticism of our offense. He also criticized many first down playcalls and NOT going for a FG when we were ahead 24-10.

I thought his observations, though critical, were rational and not spoken hysterically.

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Sounds fair. That is why I started this thread. When my buddy told me that Charlie wasn't being critical of the offense it kind of shocked me. I have always thought Charlie was pretty straight forward and honest in his commentary on the team. But like I said I wasn't able to listen to the post game last night and I was wondering what others thought about it.

Thanks. Wow!!

104.5 is too close to Ensminger in many ways

True. It's pretty comical listening to Gordy. They have no credibility with this regime bc of family ties

No, what I described earlier was Charlie on the ESPN 104.5 postgame show, before the 98.1 Gameday switchover. He has become more of an apologist for O and especially Ensminger over the last 2 weeks than I have ever heard him do for anyone. Seriously if you can listen to the 104.5 postgame from Alabama...it was so discouraging to hear the one guy who calls it like it is, go in the tank and basically defend that abomination of a performance based only on talent on the lines, and shout down anyone critical of O or Ensminger's plan. And the same was true to an extent last night about the offensive woes. To hear that Ensminger's family ties to 104.5 (we already know O's) makes sense, but it's getting to be like listening to North Korean radio stations talk about their own government. I thought Hanagriff would stay above that fray but it seems something has changed.

I get it, but he is more than just a former player in his current position. I would never expect someone like him to go even halfway to scorched earth. It just struck me that he couldn’t even say the coaching staff had some significant culpability in the embarassing loss to Bama.

Some former players will tell it exactly how they see it (e.g. Marcus Spears, Booger McFarland).

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Charles could come to New Orleans, and be the best in the market, immediately.

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Gus Kattengale(sp?) is fricking TERRIBLE.

Actually no, we aren't allowed to follow Charles. He has a sheriff's deputy that stays with him all during the day. So you are only allowed to approach him if the deputy allows you to do so. Then he normally will only speak with the public in 10 minute intervals. SOme topics are off limits but he will decide that on a case by case basis.

It's always a privilege to get to speak with Charles!

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Gordy on the other hand, is a full-on apologist. He had the gall to say there was no issue with the scheme against Bama this past week. And he is training Hester to be the same type of bootlicker.

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This is true. On Hanging with Hester last Monday, Hester was reading questions from the Huddle. Every question was about poor offense performance and who would be the new coordinator if we got rid of E. It was comical because as Hester read the questions, neither he nor Gordy would attempt to answer any of them.

Sad part is that just about every person at that station is in bed with LSU in some form or fashion so you can't rely on them to call LSU out. For as much as I do not like Moscona, he was the only one last week who specifically said the offense needs to change because you will never beat Bama with the basic crap we are running.