re: Marcus Spears brings the heat: Leonard Fournette was done a disservice by LSU

So if LF had played for let's see.... Anyone else in the country you don't think that a 6'1" 235 lb 4.5 to sub 4.5 40 RB wouldn't have been picked as the #1 back in the NFL?

Of course he would have. Like I said Marcus is just saying that if LF had been in Matt Canada's offense for 3 years instead of Cam Cameron and Les Miles that he would have more than likely been the talk of the country and it wouldn't of been close IMO. He was easily the best athlete in CFB for 3 years. You tell me how many 235 lbs RBs run sub 4.5 40s and has the cutting ability. If Les Miles would have had a decent QB it could have been the perfect offense for LF.

I'm just really glad the man is now gone because we weren't winning a darn thing with that man calling the shots at LSU period. This new staff is going to keep everyone guessing. No way Saban feels better about playing LSU now that he's gone I promise you that.

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Spears' loyalty is to LSU not Miles. Whether or not you think his negativity for Miles is irrational, his opinions on how Fournette was utilized do not make him a bad LSU fan. I think it's funny that, while he was the coach it was said that you must support him, but now you need to get over it.

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At no time did anyone say you must support Miles. the problem some posters are having is that in no way did lsu do a disservice to LF.
He is 4th on the lsu alltime rushing list and the other players in the top 10 played for 4 years.
LF is 220 yards shy of being 2nd place on lsu's alltime rushing rankings and he has 266 less carries than the current 2nd place rb.
LF is 750 yards shy of holding the lsu career rushing record and he has 240(more than a season's worth) less carries than Faulk.
Combine the entire careers of Faulk,Alexander,and Hillard and they had 3 seasons with a better yards per carry season than LF's worst yards per carry season(2014 true freshman season).

It's absurd to say the program did a disservice to a player that reached those individual accomplishments.

there are dozens of real things to call miles out on without making things up.

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No I'm not joking you're the joke. I said best athlete for 3 years and he was.

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no he wasn't. good god.

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Learn to read before trying to come at me like that. You sound like a little whinny girl. 

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Yeah I really care how you see me.
At no point in 2014 was LF the best athlete in cfb.

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Then if he wouldn't of been so battered and bruised up his first couple of years he wouldn't of gotten hurt his 3rd

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this is pure speculation.
He wasnt even top 10 in 2014 in carries. 2015 he was 5th in the country in carries. stop acting like we ran him into the ground.

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IDGAF what you think you know, I know and the country knows what they saw. 

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THIS IS WHAT YOU AND OTHER PEOPLE SAW
1. a true freshman lead the sec in all purpose yards.
2. a rb set every freshman rushing record in lsu history.
HE FOLLOWED THAT SEASON BY ......
1. setting every single seasons rushing record in lsu history.
2. have the 2nd best rushing season in SEC history(162.75 rushing yards per game).( bested only by Walker' s 1981 season of 171.9 yards per game)
3. be the 1st sec rb to lead the ncaa in rushing since 1949.
HE FOLLOWED THAT SEASON UP WITH....

1.being injured but still breaking the lsu single game rushing record on 16 carries.
2.setting the lsu single game YPC record(minimum 15 carries)



The above statements are facts.
I'm sorry you don't like them.

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LF could have been put in positions to have barely been touched. 

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we play in the most defensive talent rich conference in all of football yet you think there is an offense that would make LF untouchable?
You do realize that all those high flying spread offense run a far less variety of plays and formations, right?
Those Chip Kelly Oregon offenses consisted of 4 rushing plays and that's it.

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I assure you the ankle wasn't his only injury eithe

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It's football, you get banged up.

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Again disservice.

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only of youre an idiot.
He had one of those most accomplished careers in sec history,let alone lsu.

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Marcus is just saying that if LF had been in Matt Canada's offense for 3 years instead of Cam Cameron and Les Miles that he would have more than likely been the talk of the country and it wouldn't of been close IMO.

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Boy Canada better live up to the hype that Cameron and Crowton did not... if he has one great year he better bolt and head for a HC position.
Cam and Crowton had a good first year before falling apart and neither has done anything since they left.

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the very least it was implied over and over again that, if you didn't support what Miles was doing, that you were less of a fan or not at all.

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but just like it was heavily implied that if you supported a coach that was having one of the best tenures in sec history(that fizzled out d was justly fired), it meant you liked miles more than you love lsu.

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which ones would he have broken that he didn't?

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Put LF7 in a decent offense and he's breaking national records, not just LSU records. Kid should have won a heisman as good as he was

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Put LF7 in a decent offense and he's breaking national records, not just LSU records.

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holy shite. so now it's a disservice to LF if he doesn't get 2628 in a single seasons AND rush for 6405 yards?

The rant never ceases to amaze me.

Amen Spears, amen.

This

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We needed a new bash Les thread. It has been a few days

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And this

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It's so easy to say afterwards what SHOULD have happened.

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