re: Jacques Doucet interview with Brandon Harris

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Well, yeah... that's kind of how recruiting works.

If Orgeron didn't get Burrow, we would've been fricked the last 2 seasons.

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When was the last time Urban had to take a transfer or he'd be fricked?

The reason we needed Mett is that we had no depth, the reason we needed Burrow was Les left us with no depth.

Les had many faults here with QB development and an offense that didn't modernize with the rest of the game. That said, he doesn't deserve to be ran down by our fanbase.
The end, particularly Jan 9 2012, has tainted everyone's thoughts on him and it's understandable. He underachieved here but he also won a title, that he probably shouldn't have, and led the best team we've seen at LSU short of 2019 in 2011. He provided many memorable moments and compiled an outstanding record here. He was the only coach to field a team that could consistently match physicality and talent with Sabans Bama dynasty.
He is a good man that could recruit families with the best of them and a man that many would love to have around their program. His time ran its course, as it does for many coaches(Andy Reid Philadelphia for example) but the way it ended shouldn't completely tarnish all the great things he did for our program.
We could've crumbled after Saban yet instead the recruiting and national prestige got even stronger, at the very least comparable. Hopefully time will heal the wounds of our emotionally fragile fanbase so that he one day gets the respect he deserves from us.

Brandon Harris can blame his faults on himself. It's his right to speak his mind and I'm sure he feels he was hamstringed by the offense but what about UNC? If it was all Les then why wasn't he successful there? Sounds like a guy with sour grapes and a job at a competing university for recruits.

You mean an offense where the decisions were made for hom

Les had it out for Harris so bad that he even convinced Larry Fedora to bench him at UNC after he transferred there.

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tried to throw it away

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Why? Dumbass

Instead he got benched at unc by an underclassmen.

Actually it just sounds like Harris is a sore loser.

Remind me when Les blamed Harris on anything.

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Actually it just sounds like Harris is a sore loser.

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He’s always been like that. He talked a good game but he was not great at handling adversity when it came down to it.

More than anything else, Harris was a major recruiting whiff. We should have let Auburn have him. Les felt compelled to use him even though it was obvious he couldn't play. We didn't really have any other great options on the roster, either.

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felt at times we were calling the game so different in comparison to when [Danny Etling] was in the game or if I was in the game and just make it seem like it was a Brandon Harris issue, which it wasn't.

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Sorry but if this is the case it means the coaches don’t trust you to run what the other guy is running so yes it is a Brandon Harris issue. I don’t think the coaches are going to play the lesser talented QB and give him more responsibility because they like him better.