If Coach O really loves LSU..... he'll convince Ensminger to resume the OC position. Cut our losses with Canada at 1.5mil, before canning O at 12mil.
First off, welcome to the board. I'm not reading anything unreasonable here. Not to give the coaches any excuses, but there have been scattered posts throughout the last 12 hours that are very revealing if you string them all together. First, the exodus of WRs under Miles. We could be lining up a 4-WR set of Chark, Diarse, Quinn and T. Johnson right now. A lot more confidence-inspiring than what we've got now, isn't it? Then, the OL exodus occurred. Inexperience and lack of depth on the line will botch any gameplan. Five underclassmen starters on defense leave early; they are all contributing to their NFL teams already, so this is a major loss of talent on that side of the ball. And everything depleted further by injuries. Put it together, and we are down about 20 players, not only losses from last year, but the loss of the guys who would have been in line to replace them. That's a lot for any program to overcome.
Absolutely spot on. Lends more credence to the notion that much of this current debacle is on Miles, and any new coach would have to figure out a way to overcome a bad hand. Whether Coach O is the right man remains to be seen. I would think that any coach would be struggling with this current mess.
Agreed. I should have prefaced that with "if we keep Alleva" which I hope we don't. I'll be ok keeping O for another 2 years if that means we can Alleva.
The WR problem is on Miles. The OL problem is on the current staff. Not sure you can blame anyone for guys leaving for NFL early, and injuries happen.
I don't disagree. Question though re the OL problem -- couldn't part of the issue be due to the fact that Miles didn't recruit enough depth going back to 2014-2015?
NOt too sure about that. 12 linemen signed in Miles' last 3 classes. On the other hand, he also wasted 5 scholarships on tight ends he never used.
A good time to re-up this article from Ross Dellenger of The Advocate re attrition: http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/lsu/article_79b3ff98-9ef8-11e7-971b-c796a169b97d.html.
