re: Russel Shepard Only caught 6 passes the entire year?

Good post Roger.

What does AP stand for?

I've only been to Thailand on 2 separate occasions. The longest I stayed was about 2 weeks. Everything is dirt cheap, I like Thai food a lot, and the people are friendly.

BTW, I lived in Phuket. Where did you visit?

quote:

---

I visited Phuket, Bangkok, and Pattaya in Thailand. In Asia, I've been to Singapore, Malaysia, India, Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, and I now live in Japan.

---

Only been to Narita at airport, but I def want to travel Japan a little. Also like to go to Hong Kong. hear the food is awesome. Want to go to India some day as well, but not that high on my priority list. I'm headed to New Zealand in a month

quote:

---

How did you get to live in paradise for 6 months? I would like to land a job in Singapore so I could hit up all of the cheap vacation destinations on the weekends and still get paid a Western salary.

---

Worked for a high end hotel company called Anantara. Sales. Basically just did it to live in Thailand. Quit the job after about 4 months and then just traveled for the next 2 months.

quote:

---

I've also been to Philippines. Funny I forgot about that because my gf is from there.

---

That's another one I haven't been to. Def want to do Philippines I met a girl in Thailand from Latvia. That's who I'm meeting in NZ next month. What are you doing in Japan; military?

quote:

---

Hong Kong has the best food in the world. You should definitely go there and try out the dim sum restaurants.

---

Yeah man, now I'm hungry at 1:30 in the morning

Gonna watch the rest of Djoko/Murray. Geaux Tigers

quote:

---

You don't necessarily have to run traditional offenses with explosive players like RS.

---

He wasn't explosive! He was fast, but not Trindon fast. And that's it; that's all there was. Outside of a handful of long runs in which he went untouched - and in which ANY fast guy would have gone untouched - I never saw RS make a play. Remember that time he juked the DB and we all were like "Did you see that!"? Nope, that didn't happen. Remember the catch that ESPN played over and over like Landry's? Nope, that didn't happen either.

Sure the guy would have done better somewhere else - somewhere with no Ware, Hilliard, Blue, Hill, or Ford. Like the poster said earlier, he was beat out by freshmen most years. Our offensive creativity might be an issue, but if there's more production to be had that way - and I leave that to the coaches - the beneficiaries would be the guys ahead of RS on the depth chart.

quote:

---

it really is amazing how people continue to come out and defend Miles' coaching. No wonder the idiot makes so much money to come in second place. LSU - where offensive talent comes to die.

---

Not that amazing, really. By your way of thinking only one coach can be defended.

quote:

---

you cannot keep throwing away his 7 ypc and act like Shep never made things happen. Wouldn't you like to know with 200 touches what his average would be?

---

This is long, but there's no other way to explain why RS had a 7 ypc average but did not receive more carries.

There are different kinds of offenses, but all share one thing: they have a bread-and-butter way to consistently move the ball. In a West coast O it's the short passing game; in the Read Option it's, well, the read option. In our offense it's the between the tackles running game. A lot of you don't like that. I do, because it seems to be the most successful one now - not in yardage or scoring but in Ws.

All of these offenses use their bread-and-butter to set up the big play. When the D begins to overcommit to stop the West Coast's short pass, the read-option, or the power running, they fake those things and beat them deep, or with a reverse, or with a jet sweep, or any number of things.

There are several ways teams try to stop LSU which leave them vulnerable. Mostly what our D coaches do during a game is watch how the D is cheating and call an appropriate play to hit them where they ain't. When a D cheats their safeties up we throw the bomb or the out if the CB plays conservative. When their LBs run blitz we throw to TEs and RBs. When they over-pursue from the corners they are set up for the jet sweep or a reverse.

Most of RS' long runs came on jet sweeps against bad teams which were over pursuing. Our coaches saw it, called the right play, and bingo, RS is running 60 yards untouched but all RS did was not fumble and not fall down. The credit goes to the between the tackles running that caused the over pursuit. RS could not get those carries. They had to come from a big rugged back who wouldn't go down easily. Now, here's the thing...you can't "give RS more of these carries. Only the defense can give those carries because if we run the jet sweep when the D is playing honest, it's probably going to lose yardage.

quote:

---

And lol at suggesting that the #1 recruit in the country should red shirt or shouldn't take away touches of others.

---

...and this is the problem with RS, he was the #1 recruit...according to Rivals, I guess. If they had ranked him #627, where he should have been ranked, we wouldn't be having this discussion. But there's a solution! To those who wanted to see more of RS' talent, you can view it forever to your heart's content, below...

* * * * *

quote:

---

It seems like you are forcing us to pick a side of whether he's good or he sucks

---

He did this with the Jlee/ JJ saga. I wanted lee to be the starter, but because I said JLee was also inconsistent , I WAS PRO JJ. He is an idiot.