The right thing to do, or the smart thing to do?

My father told me before I got married that life for a new bride was not fair because the new husband judges the wife's cooking, management skills, conducting family business etc. based on what the mother did; however, the mother had been doing it for a long time and didn't begin her marriage as efficient as she became with life experience.........

I think the same can be said for our incoming players, we'll be ok but if we expect them to be as good as the ones leaving that's not realistic. The ones just leaving are better this year than they were the year before, and the year before they were better than the year before that! Whew I think I got that right. :grin: :thumb:

 

yea, and texas has shown that a 2 QB system can be a disaster. It's really a toss-up when you decide to go QB by committee; 50/50 you have success or get totally burned.

In my own opinion, I think Flynn is the guy if you want to go for the crystal this coming year. RP, isn't proven, and although I haven't witnessed NEARLY enough, I've watched some practices and he just really doesn't look that good. Again, I'm no coach, don't watch every practice or anything, just basing my personal opinion on what I did see. I fear he may be a bust, I'm not kidding. I hope I'm wrong and that I just happened on some bad days. I'd love to see him go nuts on the rest of the SEC!

 

Was it just me, or did it seem that during the season, MF got most of the playing time in the blow outs? I've always wondered if there was any reason that RP seldom got meaningful minutes in those games. I may be way off, but it seemed to me that if the staff though there would be a serious competition next year they would have given him the opportunity to get more actual playing time when the opportunity presented itself.
I haven't heard anything, but has there been any talk of attitude problems w/ RP? I remember when he first signed he made a few dumb comments, but I thought Miles had done a good job of nipping that in the bud.

 

Based upon Miles' 1st 2 seasons, I am of the opinion that he favors experience over potential.

 

For most of the season Miles couldn't make up his mind as to who would be the bell cow RB. We all know how overwhelming the running game was during that period. You have to have a main man, then a change of pace disturbs the other team, rather than keeping your own team off balance.

It is bad for Flynn. He doesn't have an option but to go to a DII school if he wants to start. You have to let RP get his reps while a safety net is still here.

That said, if RP hasn't been busting his hump this year trying to get to the number 2 slot, he would sit. He needs to know that starting jobs aren't won by attrition.

 

Ok, first of all, the only true "smart" thing to do is keep the QB race tight and not name the starter until after the fall semester starts. You name a starter too early, and if that start is not named Matt Flynn, LSU will almost surely lose one of their 2 scholarship QB's (and I'm not counting the high school QB recruit just yet). Flynn would almost certainly leave for a I-AA program, where he could finish his last year of college ball as a starting quarterback--something that you couldn't blame him for doing if he did.

Flynn has been the complete team player. Now, I'm not saying that simply being a team player automatically makes you the starting QB, but c'mon, Flynn has showed--and proved--that he can run this offense and lead this team to wins in big games (have we forgotten the Peach Bowl already?)...and I know RP has a lot of "potential"--but potential is all he has right now and I'm not so sure I would welcome a situation in where an unproven RS-Soph QB is named our starter for a season where we have a ledgit shot at another BCS bowl apperence, while our proven RS-Sr. QB and former bowl MVP leaves to play for a I-AA program.

 

Didn't know Flynn's academic status. Thanks for sharing.

Well, now, that certainly does create another problem. If MF and RP are anything less than "neck-n-neck" by Miles during the Spring, then it's my opinion that MF would certainly transfer.

and I wouldn't think that there would be any better situation for him (if not at LSU as a starter) would be at Oklahoma--where their QB was a pro-prospect WR.

 

Derek Shaw at TTU is going to be the big time transfer this year. He came to TTU from ASU and is sitting out this year. My understanding is he can go anywhere and start playing next year. If he thinks GH has the job sewn up he will bolt:

http://scout.scout.com/a.z?s=153&p=8&c=1&nid=1215995

http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/shaw_derek00.html

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2005 graduate of Oceanside (Calif.) High School...rated as the No. 10 player in the nation by PrepStar Magazine on its "Dream 100" listing...was rated as the No. 1 signal-caller in the nation and named a first-team All-American by PrepStar...was featured on the cover by himself of that magazine with the headline, "Derek Shaw: The Nation's Top Gunslinger"...

 

Best post on this subject.