sir dooley

aint that the truth, H-Town. He sites the offensive records set in 2006 being broken in 2007, but never mind the fact that LSU ran 818 plays in '06 and a staggering 1,054 plays in '07.

LSU is my 2nd team to Tennessee, but the bottom line is since parting ways with Fisher, LSU's offense suffered greatly. How many plays did you have and what did you do with them?

06- 6.6ypp, 48% 3rd down conversion rate
07- 5.8ypp, 46% on 3rd down
08- 5.4ypp, 38% on 3rd down
09- 5.1ypp, 38% on 3rd down
10- 5.3ypp, 38% on 3rd down

you put those 06 stats into the 2010 season and LSU is almost certainly hoisting that crystal ball a month ago. Funny thing about those 06 numbers, they are almost pretty close to FSU's 2010 clip of 6.0ypp and 48% on 3rd downs and 2009's mark of 6.4ypp/46%. Even funnier, the year before Jimbo took over FSU averaged 5.4ypp and converted only 33% of third downs. Pretty damn close to LSU's 2010 numbers. Notice the trajectory of both offenses since his move?

Jimbo is the king of running the play clock all the way down. He has a bunch of reasons for his philosophy - prevent injuries, time of possession etc - but the end result is that his offenses are never going to put up the mind blowing numbers because he never runs a ton of plays. That's not to say he doesn't have great offenses, you just have to sift through the bullshite. LSU and FSU faced the hardest set of defenses in all of college ball in 2010 - they were #1 and #2. That said, FSU's offense was better than LSU's by a good bit even though FSU was only in year one of a real strength program - they just got a training table! FSU has had top 10 offenses in back to back years after Jimbo inherited a mess from Jeff Bowden.

Anyone who thinks what Jimbo has done since taking over for Bowden is anything short of remarkable really doesn't know what they're talking about. The people doubting him are going to be in for a surprise over the coming years. His play calling can be frustrating at times(whose isn't?), but make no mistake, Jimbo is the real deal and a better head coach than coordinator.