re: I'm so tired of hearing about scheme.

Scheme is important, yes. But its not the only thing. If you recruit to your strengths then you can keep your brand of football. That is what we are doing right now. We are focusing 100% on recruiting to fit needs on D and O. LSU must have dominant line play to play against Bama. Last night actually proved that once more.

In addition, Grimes needs to change his preparation when we play vs Bama. Our OL did not mentally prepare themselves and Grimes did not have that unit where it needed to be. Granted, IMHO, this is the only egg he and his unit laid all year. They got hit in the mouth and could not get back up to fight back.

Just face it...Les' 3 yards and a cloud of dust dinosaur offense doesn't work against Bama...while alot of other teams try to exploit Bama's weaknesses and have success doing so....We only have 1 scheme and Saban knows it...it is an embarrassment to pay a Coaching staff this much for the same shite plan every game.
Would a home builder have much success if he built the same house for each customer regardless of what they need?? Or a florist, if they made the same arrangement, or an auto manufacturer with one model in one color????? Of course not, but that is EXACTLY what Les does. He's pounding that square peg in that round hole no matter what....

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Les and Co. Recruit smaller, faster players over bigger and stronger. It's a recruiting SCHEME.

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That was not Les, that was Chavis. Prior to Chavis, we had big beasties on defense, and played Bama to a more physical level.
Chavis brought in the scheme with the 250 lb defensive ends and the 215 lb linebackers. At it's absolute best (2011) it was able to gum up Bama's attack, and limit them to FGs. In the first game their defense limited our offense, but it went to OT, and eventually we broke through. In the rematch we couldn't keep it tied, and never broke through. They still only got 5 FGs and a late TD, it could have been far worse.

2013 we were able to hang with them 1 half, then they ran all over us and ground the team to dust. Same thing happened last night, as we were able to fight back enough that we made it close at the half.

We don't know what Steele's defense will look like until he can get his players; I'm guessing he will probably want bigger guys at the D line and linebacker. We have neither the size nor the depth to be anything beyond servicable at this point.

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Scheme didn't allow bama to control the ball for ten minutes more.

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It certainly didn't hurt.

Why would 28 people downvote this thread.

Op is 100% right.

So tell me exactly which plays are going to work consistently when your O-line is getting its stool pushed in every play? Even elite NFL quarterback's can't do anything when their O-line is getting dominated.

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Why would 28 people downvote this thread.

Op is 100% right.

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They have been drinking the Kool Aid so long that they refuse to think anything is wrong when LSU was the least spread offense in the nation in 2014 - having had the least one on one solo tackles. As Dupre said "It is no secret. You stop our run game, you win."

"There are a few teams that are truly able to run what is considered a legitimate multiple offense. The 2014 version of the Crimson Tide is an example of this. Combine an ages-long tradition of multiple tight end sets and a heavy emphasis on running the football with a new age coordinator and dual threat quarterback, and suddenly you've got an offense capable of both spreading the ball around at a quick tempo and also chewing up the clock with momentum-killing doses of pounding the rock." This is what Cameron installed in the Spring and Summer with Harris and it got lost in the Heisman shuffle.

"The most common sight on any NFL Sunday is now the preferred 11 Personnel out of Shotgun. In layman's terms, there is one running back, one tight end (thus the 11), and three wide receivers." aka the ProStyle Spread.

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Even elite NFL quarterback's can't do anything when their O-line is getting dominated.

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what about screens...draws... quick slants...?

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scheme works against lesser teams it sucks against alabama it's not changing

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Who's scheme is working against bama and other teams? We need to know so we can go to it and not lose to anyone. Please let us know, we have to get this winning scheme. No one will be able to stop us!

Agree to an extent, but it's not how it once was back 30 years ago when everyone either ran a pro-style (Most teams), triple-option threat (Oklahoma and the Brewer-led Ole Miss teams), Run n shoot (South Carolina), or a veer attack (Florida State, Nebraska, and a few others mainly on the Atlantic coast). 90 percent of the teams ran I-formation, 2 wides, and minus Oklahoma, those teams won the championships from '85 to '95.

Bobby Bowden did once say, "Get the hosses and it doesn't matter what scheme you run." Today's game cannot just apply that quote and game over. If that were the case, Texas and USC and Florida and Alabama/LSU would be in the final 4 every year.

While recruiting classes are huge, your scheme is, too. A 5 star QB can come to LSU and he's not going to be an all-accolades American like he was in high school.