Texas Football Duplicating LSU Model?

Scott Woodward is as advertised. We beat Alabama and won the national championship in his first year as AD.

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they just missed the boat

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Agree

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"if you ask LSU people what caused their epic rise last year they won't point to coaching, they won't point to some (QB) transfer, they won't point to facilities, they won't even point to recruiting.....they'll point to Scott Woodward"

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lulz...

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Scott Woodward is as advertised. We beat Alabama and won the national championship in his first year as AD.

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Let's not get carried away here. Woodward is off to a good start but he was far from directly responsible for the football team's success the past season, he barely made it in just last year. I will give him credit for straightening out compliance SOME so far easing them off the coaches backs dealing with suspensions and being able to PICK the games instead of just doing 3 or 6 games in a row. I bet that's a clear example of Woodward's early influence.

The main result of last year's football success relied mostly on O/E going out getting Brady to transform the offense and Joe's meteoric rise as a player as well.

It's absolutely obnoxious to sit here and give Woodward all or most of the credit to things that were mostly outside his control from the start of going into last season.

I know there was a line of thought that football would improve because Scott would hold O accountable. I thought the more accurate reality was that Scott would work in concert with O and give him the resources and support that he needed to be successful.

Just from an outside viewpoint I saw Alleva as more of a boss/employee relationship with Alleva believing he would control O and Ed and Scott as more of a collegial relationship with Scott as an advocate and resource to build the program to where it needed to be.

Its the sleep pods that make the difference. Don't tell them.

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"if you ask LSU people what caused their epic rise last year they won't point to coaching, they won't point to some (QB) transfer, they won't point to facilities, they won't even point to recruiting.....they'll point to Scott Woodward".

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what LSAU people say that

I love the Woodward hire and the AD has an impact on the long term success of a football program but Scott Woodward had as much to do with the 2019 LSU football season as my wearing my lucky boxers did. If Aleva was still AD we still win the NC go 15-0 win. the Heisman etc

To this point all I know he can do is write big checks. He needs to get basketball straightened out and redo or replace PMAC as well as answer the questions about game days. Jury still out on Scotty.

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The main result of last year's football success relied mostly on O/E going out getting Brady to transform the offense and Joe's meteoric rise as a player as well. It's absolutely obnoxious to sit here and give Woodward all or most of the credit to things that were mostly outside his control from the start of going into last season.

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True. There are so many factors.
-Building a shadow staff that was able to break down game film and prepare the players and field coaches
-Analytics including the GPS system that monitored practice fatigue (Mariucci talked about players getting faster at the end of the season which is unheard of)
-Offensive overhaul and Brady
-2018 going from 112th in starting experience to top 10 in 2019
-Burrow's development
-Cregg's second season implementing his blocking system
-Getting healthy in the latter 3rd of the season
-Sleep pods

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Let's not get carried away here. Woodward is off to a good start but he was far from directly responsible for the football team's success the past season, he barely made it in just last year. I will give him credit for straightening out compliance SOME so far easing them off the coaches backs dealing with suspensions and being able to PICK the games instead of just doing 3 or 6 games in a row. I bet that's a clear example of Woodward's early influence.

The main result of last year's football success relied mostly on O/E going out getting Brady to transform the offense and Joe's meteoric rise as a player as well.

It's absolutely obnoxious to sit here and give Woodward all or most of the credit to things that were mostly outside his control from the start of going into last season.

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Agreed 100%

There's not a whole lot of "mystery" as to how LSU was able to have such remarkable success last season. It's pretty simply to explain actually.

1. Orgeron continued the great recruiting success the program had under Miles (Miles' final class was ranked #2 overall).

2. The numerous first year starters in 2018 returned in 2019 with another year of physical maturity and, more importantly, playing experience.

3. From Orgeron, down, the coaching staff fully embraced a completely new offensive philosophy. One that allowed their 5th year senior QB to maximize his greatest abilities (football IQ, accuracy and playmaking)

It's not as if LSU was some middling program hovering around 6-6 or 7-5 each year who all of a sudden had this unexpectedly great season. It was a program that had been really, really good for over decade, but reluctant to make the final tweak necessary (new offensive philosophy) to put them in the elite tier