re: Perriloux set us back YEARS

There is a far cry from losing the QB and losing a DB/PR.

Others can step into the DB/PR roles. You usually have just 1 good QB and 3 pieces of trash.

They will recover from TM7's departure quickly. On the field, it will not be noticed.

Perriloux's dismissal...it can be argued that they still haven't fully recovered from it, and will not until Zach shows us that he is what we think he is.

Perriloux was supposed to start that year, with Hatch as the backup and Jarrett Lee 3rd and learning and Jordon Jefferson 4th and learning with a redshirt.

But, Perriloux leaves, Hatch has to play and is awful. Young freshman Jarrett Lee then has to play well before he is ready, is in over his head, and is awful. Jefferson then has to step in before he is ready.

So, when Lee and Jefferson should be learning and riding the pine, they are playing. Because of that, they never develop.

Last year, everything was ok (but still pretty bad) until the time came when LSU needed a QB to step up in a big game and make throws. JL and JJ, never having been able to develop properly, are not up to the task, and it finally catches up to the team in the biggest game of the year.

You can literally point all of that to Perriloux's dismissal.

Les Miles, knowing full well what playing too early did to Lee and Jefferson, decides he will not make the same mistake twice.

So, no matter how bad JL and JJ play, Zach rides the pine last year, and if that means the offense is awful and they lose the national championship, then so be it, but he was not gonna do to Zach what he had to do to Lee and Jefferson. Given that they made it all the way to the title game with so-so play at QB, i think it was the right call.

TM7's departure will not set off that kind of event chain.