I am sure the thoughts of replacement goes through everyone's mind. If you don't think the thought would enter your mind if say LSU went 5-7 or something then you replace the OC now. I have been basically calling for Crowton to be canned all year.
Like our friends in AA say, "If nothing changes, then nothing changes." I know there are all sorts of organizational issues that may make it dicey to change the OC, with an under performing QB heading into his junior year. But, the play calling has been horrible, the QB is not make satisfactory progress, and there is a bit of a funk on the program. If you do not change this year, then what makes the scenario next year this time any different. I mean what is up with this redundant hand off from teh shotgun off guard or tackle. Memo to OC: A slowly developing play will not work with an iffy O line. One of the best sayings I have retained from my Fortune 100 days is "slow to hire, fast to fire." Time to put that philosophy in action in the Football Office. hwr
The thoughts of replacement for Crowton, not Miles. Even if Miles has a bad season next yr, if he has made the right changes with the offense, he will still get another yr.
A lot of people erroneously credit Croton for LSU’s offensive success in 2007, but in 2007 Miles and Croton decided not to change the offense that first year he arrived because it represented too big of a transition. In any event, we got a good dose of Croton’s true offensive prowess for the first time in the 2008 season when he coached a young Jarrett Lee to 16 interceptions and a new all time NCAA record 7 pick sixes in just 8 games, and today many LSU fans are idiotically laying the blame on our weak, anemic, and totally dysfunctional offense this past season on a young Jordan Jefferson. Nevertheless, the common thread here is that a very incompetent offensive coordinator coached both of them. Not to mention that if you track Croton’s career down through the years, you will easily see that offensive output at each of those teams he coached at progressively got worse in each succeeding year until they eventually bottomed out, at which time coach Croton had to find a new job.
I think you get my point, I would just say you better be willing to sit through with Miles if it goes South in a bad way next year. You don't want to replace the OC two years in a row if you can help it.
While I do not like Crowton, and have several issues with him, it would not surprise me if he was kept on. The argument can be made that he did not have the "ideal setting" to run his "genius offense." I do hope he is gone, but you cannot be sure until the year is over and he is seen boarding a plane out of BR to somewhere else
BYU fans were screaming that Crowton was horrible. I am not joking when I say that, the day it was announced you had BYU fans saying he would be fine the first year then after that it would be nightmare. It was no secret BYU fans saw this coming. That is why I say the Mormon Prophecy has been fulfilled.
I agree on the replacement of the OC point, but that is a chance we are going to have to be willing to take. Crowton, needs to go as well as a few other asst's on offense. Porter already is gone, so hopefully we can get someone who is as good of a recruiter, and better at a RB coach. Stud has our OL underperforming and he needs to hit the pavement as well. As I have said many times the HC is only as good as his asst's, and over the past 2 yrs they have not lived up to the standard that Miles expects.
