re: What happened to House and this defense in one year?

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overall level of talent not up to LSU standards

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Last but not least


Need some dogs

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House’s preferred scheme is very complex, and the players couldn’t grasp it, combined with the fact that Perkins doesn’t have traditional linebacker skills. His scheme and his personality are better fits for the NFL

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ok, but even if this is true, it confirms that House was a terrible college DC.

Every college coach knows he'll have NCAA-mandated limits on practice time. And if he has a lot of roster turnover (which House knew about) it confirms that the coach has to keep things simple.

Any coach that tries to implement a scheme that's too complex for his college roster isn't doing his job.

Any decent DC can have a good defense with elite talent. The true test of a coach is what he does with lesser talent.

And House failed that test miserably.

Never seen anything like it. It was bizarre. The players had no idea what they were doing and they couldn't tackle. Dangerous combination.

Looked like a Big 12 defense in the SEC. It was the perfect storm of awful coaching, talent, and effort. The Secondary wasn't good enough to play man and they couldn't understand zone concepts. Still reached 10 wins. Incredible.

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I think House got scared by all the issues we had and went so basic and so soft that we got killed. Then as his defense got killed it made the guys on the field look even worse, so he continued to go softer and more basic

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Regardless, a good coach learns to disguise his deficiencies. Yeah, we were down some key players, but no reason for how out of position and lost players were on defense. And don't forget the poor tackling was inexcusable. Our defensive players did not lack so much in the way of talent that they gave up 300+ yards to Grambling unless there was a seriously flawed defensive scheme! Rumors about House having the players turning on him was the absolute final dagger!

U left off Ole Miss

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Perkins was neutralized by our own coaches

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Among other reasons, this for me was one of the most puzzling.

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What happened to House and this defense in one year?

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there was very good legitimate reasons why irish had to force BK to fire house.

when BK stupidly brought him here, i knew it was going to be a shite show.

BK caused this problem 100%

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I guess my question is how do you possibly drop 50 spots in the ranking when you did not have a catastrophic loss of talent or anything in particular happen where you can put your finger to it and say welp.. this is why. Sure our secondary was horrible and we had some tough injuries but to go from slightly above average to letting Wisconsin pass all over you seems ridiculous. I think House was just THAT bad of a coach.

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House has proven he can be average to good (he had one great season at UK) IF he has the perfect setup to play his scheme exactly as he wants. The problem is that it all falls apart when he doesn’t.

Last year, we had a lot of experienced key veterans who held the defense together. That included all of the portal guys who played big roles in the secondary and on the DL. In the secondary we added JBC, who was very experienced, and 2 guys from Arkansas. That was key because Odom also ran a TON of zone, so they knew what to do as soon as they hit the field. House had enough guys to understand and run his overcomplicated scheme without dumbing it down. And even with this, we were still just an average to above average defense.

What you saw this year was what happens when you give House less experienced players who can’t get his scheme in one offseason. He isn’t a good enough or creative enough to adjust his system to them and he obviously can’t teach them how to run it very well. He can only be successful if you give him exactly what he needs to run what he wants every season, but that just isn’t possible, especially with the way the portal and NIL work today.

Great coaches never stop learning and growing and even good coaches are capable of being flexible and adjusting. House has none of these traits.

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The whole team is behind the play every time. Speed! This is the slowest D I’ve seen at LSU.

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That’s not all on the players. House ran a read and react scheme. One of the most difficult things about that is getting players to understand the system to the point that they react quickly enough that they don’t get caught flat footed.

What did you see from our players all season? They looked like they were waiting at the line for blockers to come at them. They were slow to close on receivers on pass plays. There was no movement in the zone defense. If you delay moving of .5 seconds, that all it takes to be roasted on a play and you saw that over and over.

It wasn’t just an overall lack of athleticism. Our players were thinking too much and playing passive rather than reacting instinctually. That’s the scheme. There is a reason that most college DCs don’t run this kind of defense. It’s hard to get younger college players to master it, especially with the limited practice time allowed in college football. It’s a bad fit and we saw the worst of it.

Put our current players in an attacking scheme that they understand and watch how much faster they look and more aggressive they play. It won’t solve everything, but it will definitely help.

They need to do a medical examination on House before he departs.

I think he may have been kicked in the head by a mule or something.

It's the only explanation I can think of. Look for a hoof indentation on his forehead for love of Pete, think of the children!