Hopefully the next coach will do a better job of getting our players to play fundamental football like covering recievers, blocking on punts, getting all of the OL on the field before the offense lines up, and making sure all 11 players realize they are running a fake FG. I have enjoyed LSU football under Saban but have seen too many players on the field have no clue what they are doing, hopefully Miles will do better with the fundamentals and find an offensive coordinator that has a clue.
Absolutely. LSU has better talent than Iowa. Iowa outcoached LSU. Iowa outplayed LSU. It was a close game, but Iowa beat LSU. When a team with inferior talent beats a team with superior talent, something is wrong with the coaching. We can make an excuse and blame the players because of the recent turmoil, but let me ask this: Is this the first time that LSU lost to a team with inferior talent in the Saban Era? Indeed not.
This was the number three ranked D in the country. Do you now why FUNDAMENTALS How soon some of you forget that we won a NC last year with team that was more mature and had more experience. This is a young team and it showed at times. This team had a tendancy to loose its cool a little and to get to excited and make a bad play. That is due to its youth and lack of leadership not because saban did not teach fundamentals. Look at how many great plays we did make this year and anyone who thought that this team would do better than what it did needs to go back to football 101. They played great at times at times there youth got the best of them. No matter what coach we get next year we will have a great season because the team will mature some and those fundamentals that have been taught to them will show.
I think a lot of the negative comments that have been appearing over the last couple of weeks regarding Saban are fairly normal. We have lost a great coach, one of the best that this University has ever had on the field. There is going to be a little venting as people start to deal with the reality of Saban not being here any longer. These comments, to me, are an attempt to reduce the sting of the loss of our coach by starting to pick out the negative things during his career. We lost some games that we should have won and we struggled at times but in the end Saban's teams achieved great success. To go 9-2 in the toughest conference in the country with the youngest team in the SEC says a lot. Saban was an excellent recruiter and built this program not only in terms of wins, losses and championships, but he brought new facilities, stadium expansions and elevated this program beyond anything any of us would have imagined. It is a sad thing that the coach is moving on to the NFL but that's the long and short of it. Now it's time to move on. Thanks for everything that you gave us and everything that you have left behind. I personally don't have anything bad to say about the coach. There are some games I would like to have back, but all in all I am thrilled and I only hope that the next coach will be able to continue the success and build on what Saban started.
Our defensive backfield was about as veteran as you will see with two senior corners and 3 out of the 4 DB's returning starters yet they had no clue how to play a last play prevent D. It had nothing to do with youth and everything to do with poor fundamentals. JMO
Is it just me or is anyone else irate about the way we punt protect?? I don't like our formations used. Normally, schools put 9 men on the line and 1 upback and then the punter....We use that crappy 7 men on the line and 3 up back formations and we get burned every time! Last year, OU exposed our little 7-3-1 punt formation and scored a TD. This year, Iowa does the same. You would THINK that after seeing what that formation does, we would have scrapped it long ago!! Yet our special teams coach never learned...:dis:....go take that formation to Miami, Dooley!
I like Dooley as a recruiting coordinator and he may develope into a great coach but no one and I mean no one has stepped up and done a good job with our special teams in a long long time and I don't know why. Some of the OSU posters have said that Miles has a really good special teams coach and we could definitely use that here.
You haven't been watching football very long if you think that Nick didn't teach the fundamentals. His teams have been the most consistent that I've seen in 32 years of watching Tiger football. Players sometimes blow an assignment. There ain't a lot a coach can do about it except to hope it doesn't come at a bad time. Nick called for a man prevent defense, but Prude did not get the call, apparently and came up to cover a short zone instead of covering his man. This was not Nick's failure, it was the player's misunderstanding. Prude can play this here game. He has proven it in the past. But no one is 100% perfect. This one just came at a bad time. If you think there have been some clueless players on the field, you should have seen some of Curley Hallman's teams.
Not only did I see them I was there in the stadium. If you think Iowa is the more talented team then you haven't been watching football very long. A lesser talented team won because they played better fundamental football and our coaching staff was out coached.
