re: Highest paid OC with 54th ranked offense

If Canada were staying, many of the rant would be blasting O for hiring a guy who finished #54 on offense.

Please Point out
1) The QB that can throw the ball (not underthrow, but lead the receiver
2) The WR who can make the catch (think the Miss State game and the drops, and the rest of the year all the drops and lack of consistency
3) Think of the Offensive line the injuries
4) Think of the FALSE STARTS in the first half of the season/the mental mistakes
5) Think of the Alabama loss... we all hate Bama, but this was the first we actually felt OK with the loss because we moved the ball on bama and they couldn't stop us.... yes only 10pts, but see #2 above, all i can remember is a defensive back all over Chark and Etling underthrowing a TD Ball, at the same time Chark should've jumped INTO HIM(DB) and it would've been an EASY Pass Interference call

See where i'm going....
I WOULD LOVE to see this offense for year #2 with EXPERIENCED LINEMAN BLOCKING

Jet sweep= 3-4 different plays can be run with this one act.. do you think the tight end or wr's have anything to do with it's success ? Sure they do by blocking !
Bubble/3 wr bunch play pass, I see all teams run it an very few have success. I'm not buying your thin opinion 54th is the entire offense and learning curve to boot. Check back in with ya after bowl game

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It was his first year installing a complex offense

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excuse. Same excuse used with Cam's allegedly complex offense.

College offenses can be turned around very quickly. Hell, Kiffin was a first year OC at Bama and made the playoffs with Blake Freaking Sims at QB. Gus made the championship game in his first year with Nick Marshall at QB.

New QB/new offense are just excuses.

Those in this thread who do not acknowledge the difficulty/ impossibility o installing a totally new offense with players not recruited for it within a few months, are not qualified to comment here. The jury is still out on Canada. He has been here for about eleven months and his efforts were being undercut by Orgeron by no later than September.
He had two very good RBs, but little else to work with except Chark and a mess son OL.
Seems to me he did extremely well under these circumstances, particularly when having to fight his own HC to implement his offense.

Matt Canada and his scheme can beat over half that top
20 list, does that make him top 10....

It would seem as though nobody is certain of the dynamics between O and Canada (did Les call plays, or was it Cam?...remember that discussion?). Is O screwing things up by interfering, or did he save the day after the Troy game by stepping in. I don’t have inside info, and honestly, most of this thread sounds like speculation. Some are pro O, some are pro Canada, some are just simply negaO’s. I say our offense, while markedly different, was pretty meh. Maybe I expected too much. Honestly, I don’t think Canada deserves to be fired based performance, but he should have been put on notice concerning expectations in year #2. If he is a drunken arse that shits on the rest of the staff, then that could be a deal breaker. This team, in the foreseeable future imo , is only going to be as successful as the Aranda led defense determines. If Im O, I’m 1000% sticking with Aranda over Canada.

According to y’all it was injuries and missing Olinemen and missing dlinemen ie couldn’t get off the field to give the offense something and it was bad field goal kicking and bad special teams that set up the offense in the hole and it was O that interferes, by his own admission, in the Troy game and and and.
Now all of a sudden it is on Canada.

Here is what Canada’s offense DID:
1. Danny Freaking Etling
- He’s one of just five to throw for 2,000 yards in consecutive seasons,
- one of 10 to crack 4,000 career yards and is second
- set the highest mark ever for an LSU QB In Int ratio and Number 2 all time in the conference.
- Number 12 in effenciency in the Nation.
- Number 5 in yards per completion in the Nation.
2. The offense turned the ball over only 8 times this entire season - tied for the best in the conference with Bama. Ironically, 4 of those was against Troy.
3. Thy averaged 28 puts a game.
4 Put up yards against Bama despite the loss and won all those games in the last 3/4 of the season when it was clear MC was calling the games.

It takes time to install this offense and we still didn’t see all of it.