re: Crowton is the issue

+1

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Crompton had 4TD's against UGA and 300+ passing

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How depressing is that?!?

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please tell me that you're aware of the hatch/lee/perriloux situation

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Yeah this really is a one year excuse. I could and did buy it last year. Not going to buy it over the course of 2 years however.

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How is any of this unsubstantiated?

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please tell me you're kidding. how is complaining about the coordinator unsubstantiated? you can't possibly be serious.

are any of us on the team? do you see anyone comparing our situation to that of other teams? absolutely not to both. it's nothing but insular myopia. all the people in this thread with the "+1" crap have no perspective whatsoever. lsu is still vying for team of the decade and people want the coaches lynched. amazing

once again, every team in america complains about the play calling. so since that is constant, who wins more? right now, lsu is winning ALOT. until that changes significantly, why all the hysterical psychosis? a team does not have to win in style to achieve goals, despite what the rantards think. a coordinator only needs to be good enough in relation to the other facets of the team so that the team wins. that's happening exactly this season with the exception of the game against #1 florida.

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As you previously admitted that you don't know about Crowton's history, maybe you need to familiarize yourself with it.

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i didn't say i didn't know about his history. what i said was that i have no idea how relevant it is to our current situation.

Great post and analysis. Yes, I read all five pages.

Crowton has done a fine job up until this year. The OLINE is the problem this year because they don't run or pass block. Usually an OLINE will do one well but not this OLINE. That is why we can't run the ball or pass the ball.

Keep telling yourself that. OU and UO had to almost replace their entire line and they have both done better than us. O-line wasnt supposed to be a weakness coming in. I have watched Crowton for the last 5 years now. It isn't a question in my mind where some of the blame goes, the sooner we change OC you will see it.

Didn't Bama have to replace most of their line as well?

You forgot how he flushed BYU's program down the tubes
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as a head coach, not a coordinator. big, HUGE difference


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Theres more to being an OC than fancy play scribblings written out in Crayon.
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correct. and his numbers as a coordinator have been respectable


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This isn't the first time a fan base has called for Crowtons job
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oh good grief. every fan base has a group of people constantly calling for the coach's/coordinator's job. people were opposed to nick saban before he even stepped on to campus



Wow, put down your crack pipe.
I guess you think the economy is fine as well.
You my friend are in total denial.

CHANGE is needed.

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are any of us on the team? do you see anyone comparing our situation to that of other teams? absolutely not to both.

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How is this relevant to anything?

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lsu is still vying for team of the decade and people want the coaches lynched. amazing

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We were vying for it until we went 8-5. If we head a similar direction this year we will be completely out of it...

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once again, every team in america complains about the play calling.

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and? so what?

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so since that is constant, who wins more? right now, lsu is winning ALOT. until that changes significantly, why all the hysterical psychosis?

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no, they were winning a lot.

there was nothing hysterical or psychotic about my original post. it was a fairly well reasoned argument.

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a team does not have to win in style to achieve goals, despite what the rantards think. a coordinator only needs to be good enough in relation to the other facets of the team so that the team wins.

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i agree with you here totally. i have issue with people who think we should be 12-0 every year and win every game by 60 and never make mistakes. it's unrealistic mania.

but here's the rub: we're 109th in total offense. if we were even 50th, i wouldn't have made this post. but halfway through the season one of the most prolific programs in college football who recruits some of the top flight high school athletes in the country can't muster a better offense than new mexico or kent st. or boston college or clemson?

people you act like all the complaining is completely unmerited. but it's hard to justify a coordinator's success when the results have worsened from year to year (for the 3rd time in his career) and have now reached sub zero levels.

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that's happening exactly this season with the exception of the game against #1 florida.

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good, well coached teams don't win games inspite of their flaws, they win them despite their flaws. look, i'm a well reasoned fan... i typically don't jump off bridges from game to game or even season to season. i sat by quietly through the first 5 games watching our offense be anemic against the powerhouse d's of ull (92nd ranked d) and washington (106th ranked d)... we scored only 31 in each of those games. We totaled 330 yards of offense as ULL.

To put that in perspective - most every fan on this board has universally applauded our D for how awesome the played against Florida. UF racked up 327 yards of offense against us. The 92nd ranked D kept us to a total of 3 more yards than our "awesome defensive performance" against Florida.

Look, if we hung 60 on ULL and Vandy like we should, I'd have less issues (or at least different ones), but the fact is, we're struggling to move the ball against the meekest of opponents. The Florida game is only a small part of the larger picture here... we're not moving the ball up the field.

And you can keep blaming the offensive line all you want, but midway through the season (honestly, much earlier) a good coordinator should understand what he has and doesn't have. Crowton should be well aware that our line can't be world beaters this year.

So why not change up the playcalling and schemes slightly to things that make it easier on them to block? Why not roll Jefferson out of the pocket and give him some safe, easy completions? Where are screens, slants, short outs, dig routes... easy, easy stuff to complete. Instead, we're 7 step dropping and hanging the young QB and the OL out to dry....