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I don’t mind an analytics guy doing the ground work during the week and advising the OC on best plays to run based on the analytics, but we’re talking about two coaches who clearly aren’t on the same page which completely screws up everything from preparation, to play calling, to timing, etc.. No wonder we’ve regressed…

A “strong offer” could literally mean the following:

(Wade to Smart): you’ll start from day 1 and never have to compete for your spot. You’ll be a star player and in the spot light from the second you step on campus and with the team I’m building you’ll have a strong chance at a national championship run and a lotto pick in the draft. If you struggle with school during the year I will get you tutors and personally put in as much time as needed to make you the most successful player you can possibly be. I will give you my personal number and if you ever need ANYTHING I will be there to help out, no matter what time of day. You will be the face of LSU basketball and will spearhead our national championship run while also having the opportunity to make yourself a household name and build your brand the way you want to.

All of this “strong offer” talk could literally mean he’s promising Smart an unaltered spot starting for a high callibur team for as long as he’s on campus with unfettered access to coaching and TV time. LSU would benefit from an offer like this over a team like Duke who would already have “star players” and faces of the program.

A strong offer doesn’t have to be financial or even an NCAA violation. It could literally mean allowing Smart the opportunity to be the face of the program and build his image the way he wants to in a program that would get a lot of attention for being better than the experts predicted.

I don’t know what’s more sad: the fact that this is true, or the fact that LSU fans are excited about this...

If you watch the end of the play the safety does come down to about the 20 yard line. My guess is his primary responsibility is to cover a TE or release, and once he's diagnosed it's a run play he's secondary responsibility is to stuff the run/any holes. Everything else you said was spot on.

But thinking about it this leaves 1-on-1 coverage on the back side so Bama has absolutely zero respect for our passing game in that one situation. I can't speak for the rest of the game but it seems as though they've played man coverage in the past games so maybe that's always been the case?

Did Alleva even contact Herman prior to November? We had MONTHS before Texas even knew they were going to search for a coach to get a deal done. That can't be said enough, and yet we did absolutely nothing. It's almost as if Alleva forgot we had to find a coach and then turned on ESPN one day and realized Texas was singing Herman, so he panicked and asked CEO to be the head coach.

Stop please? With LSUs AD budget there isn't any reason why we can't get anyone in the country not named Nick Saban. There is absolutely zero reason why LSU can open the check book tonight, get rid of O at the end of the season, and target 2-3 up in comers who will truly bring some fresh life, and a new offensive game plan to our school. If those targets want to bring in their own Defensive guys then so be it, or we can keep Aranda, but the pitty party of "no one wants to come here" is utter bullshite and it really needs to stop. It's a defeatist attitude and it's simply wrong.

Did we miss on those two targets, or did our AD not even try to swing? At this point, I'm not conceived that our AD actually made any offers to anyone, let alone balk at a price war with other teams.

So your answer to all of this is "it's ok, we will be primed and ready for a homerun IF coach O fails"? Isn't that the exact scenario tiger fans just witnessed last season?!

We literally fired our coach in September due to failure and we were more than in a "prime position" to find his replacement. We had a 2 month jump start on the entire country to build relationships and weed out any unserious parties, which is almost verbatim what your describing will supposedly happen if O fails. What you fail to realize is that it literally didn't happen, just now. And it played out infornt of your eyes. You can't make this up!

I'm neither for or against O, he is who the powers at be choose and we will have to live through the good and/or bad until his contract is up. Hopefully it will be the latter. But to try and rally the troops behind "we will be in perfect position if O fails" is just plain ignorant.

Not to be rude but wake up and look at the entire picture. We had a perfect set up, almost what you really want in that situation other than having a "next man up" (which rarely if never happens), and we did nothing with it. What makes you so confident the LSU administration won't botch this one up too?

I honestly wouldn't mind this as our #3-4 if Herman, Jimbo, and (ugh) Petrino say no to life changing money. His offensive scheme, with LSU talent, would be absolutely devistating to the SEC. His defenses are relatively strong as well. Not entirely sure how he would recruit the next level but the dude can flat out coach.

I'll be honest. I wanted Miles gone last year and our offense is just boring, but I think getting rid of Miles tomorrow would destroy the teams mentality. Say what you will but Miles is like a father to these kids and they won't take lightly to him getting canned in the middle of the season.