re: Is it time to hire a QB coach?

FWIW, Troy Aikman always makes a big deal that the OC should be the QB coach; its a mistake to have two different coaches in thoses roles.

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What, however is the NCAA ruling on GA's?

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I think it would be fine. In fact, I mentioned this on another thread the other day.

I remember this past offseason hearing about some college, might have been Cinci, or Ohio... somewhere around there-- anyways, they basically got around the asst. coach limit by having a former d-coordinator enroll at school for one class, and came on as a GA for the team for next to no money. I think the dude was kind of getting old and was willing to do it.

So, here's my idea: talk to Bobby Hebert (I think he loves him some Tigers and might be willing), get him to enroll in one LSU Correspondence course, or whatever the minimum to qualify to come on as a GA / sort of student capacity is, and there's your GA for the QBs. Or, is Danny Wuerffel still hanging around New Orleans? ... someone can offer to donate to his charity if he helps.

Aikman had it both ways for the Cowboys, but his preference was for both jobs to reside with one coach.

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FWIW, Troy Aikman always makes a big deal that the OC should be the QB coach; its a mistake to have two different coaches in thoses roles.

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No offense to ole soft skull, but he was never on a team that didn't have a coach who could develop QBs. I would agree with him in the sense that if your OC has the ability to develop QBs consistently, then the ideal situation is to have him do both. Unfortunately, LSU doesn't have that luxury.

I was kidding with my post above about bringing Hebert on as a grad asst (though it would be pretty interesting).

More seriously, I am curious about what Studrawa, the OL coach, brings to the table with regards to running an offense. He was actually the offensive coordinator at Bowling Green under Urban Meyer of all people, and had some very productive offenses while there (queue those who say it was all Urban's doing, and it likely was... though I think Urban is the one who promoted him from OL coach to OC... would be curious to see how much drop off their offense experienced after Urban left and Stud remained... but I digress). I wouldn't suggest he work with QBs directly since his background (per lsusports.net) is basically coaching offensive line and then OC; but I do wonder what he brings to the table; if he can/does contribute more to planning than just working with the OL, and if that can/should enable Crowton to do more work with the QBs.

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epbart

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I was kidding with my post above about bringing Hebert on as a grad asst

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I assumed you were, but bringing in someone with experience who can relate to these kids on the team might do wonders. Miles is a midwesterner and Crowton is a Mormon. Not much in common with a 19 year old from ESJ, Zachary, New Orleans, Houston, etc....

Wonder what some of the past LSU QB's are doing like: Rohan D., Herb T., M. Mauck? Anything beats seeing J. Lee and J. Jefferson come off the field and sit alone on the sidelines (after picks), talking only over a phone. They need one-on-one contact.

Bobby Hebert or Archie Manning would both be great additions. How about Bert Jones? But yes, the Tigers need a qualified quarterbacks coach.

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our problems are "young" qb's

jj will be fine - just takes time

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But if you use that logic, then we just as well throw away the next 2 seasons. True, some QB's develop 'late' but I don't think that's what LSU has in mind when they recruit a QB; they are not looking at projects. The obvious problem is that JJ has not progressed with the current offense, although that could be the offense that Crowton has him trying to run, but right now, something is just not right. I remember Tommy Hodson was hurt his true freshman year, so he had to redshirt. However, it was well known, had he not been injured, he would have played his true frost year. When he did play as a RS Freshman, well, he was pretty phenomenonal.