Re: DC Watch: John Chavis Was reading an interesting post on another forum: It is pretty obvious that the change(s) will be made. Miles is handling this with class and allowing his assistants/friends to get their next jobs all lined up before he announces who he is hiring to take their place. IMHO, this is a refreshing approach that should be more common in college football. In addition, his primary target(s) are also playing the game to make sure they get the best deal they can with all of the positions that have just opened up. I would imagine that it will all be over by mid-week, next weekend at the latest.
Re: DC Watch: John Chavis I am not giving up on him. He is my #1 choice. LSU has just decided that Koenning is the better option.
Re: DC Watch: John Chavis I'll give you Dickson (although it's 2006/2007). Zinger and Cole sucked. Brazell couldn't catch the ball and Green was a hybrid player, and he played significantly. Vincent and Broussard were played way too far into the season and cost us the Auburn game, with KW waiting in the wings to kill. Same thing for Hester, too little too late to save the season and our chance at an NC. Mitchell saw as much action as Toliver in 07, actually more. And it was not until late in 08 that Toliver saw any considerable action, allowing Byrd to try to ruin the chemistry on the offensive side of the ball, and that's a damn shame.
Re: DC Watch: John Chavis I more excited about Koenning than Chavis. Chavis/Fulmer reminds me of DC Mickey Andrews and Bobby Bowden at Florida State -- all of them had an outstanding run in the 90s, but they all have been starting to lose their touch over the last 5 or so years. Granted, I do think Fulmer getting fired, and Chavis having to leave his comfort zone at Tennessee and coming to a new surrounding could very likely give him a boost, so I'd still be excited if we got him. Total D (Yards/play) Tennessee 2008 - #3 2007 - #63 2006 - #53 2005 - #16 2004 - #56 Clemson (Koenning 2005-2008) 2008 -- #8 2007 -- #7 2006 -- #5 2005 -- #19 LSU 2008 -- #36 2007 -- #4 2006 -- #2 2005 -- #3 2004 -- #2 Scoring D (Points/Game) Tennessee 2008 - #12 2007 - #61 2006 - #33 2005 - #15 2004 - #39 Clemson (Koenning 2005-2008) 2008 - #9 2007 - #10 2006 - #16 2005 - #11 LSU 2008 -- #66 2007 -- #17 2006 -- #4 2005 -- #3 2004 -- #14
Re: DC Watch: John Chavis And Brazell is so bad, he is now paid big $ to catch the ball in the NFL. So the fact that Brazell was older, but somehow got beaten out by someone with more talent shows that Les won't play a younger player? Doesn't that prove the opposite? Those two guys could block, and knew the plays, unlike a back that got cleared at the last second to come to LSU. Also Scott actually played in front of KW, before he hurt his ankle. His injury put him behind. Evidence of KW not being ready is Hester getting the majority of the snaps last year. For all of KW's speed, he has not developed as well as expected. Mitchell knew the playbook better than both of them. Toliver never knew where the hell to even line up - as late as the championship game. Look at any game. Rarely does Flynn not have to tell him to realign himself. Once Byrd grew in familiarity, he replaced a receiver that dropped passes. And his attitude was either non-existent or overshadowed because of better QB play, last year. I fail to see how any of this proves that Miles won't use the best option. There is more to football besides running faster than the other guy.
Re: DC Watch: John Chavis And I'm sure you're also the one who believed the bullshyt that JJefferson was not ready to play and made great strides in just 2 weeks of increased practices to the point he was decoying the safety to one side of the field and throwing a long TD pass to the other. Oh sure, Jefferson was nowhere near ready. Took a goddamn injury to get him on the field.
Re: DC Watch: John Chavis Not to defend either one of the QB's...but just what did JJ accomplish? He had one decent half and pretty much stunk it up the second half. Color me unimpressed.
Re: DC Watch: John Chavis he played better than Lee, so everyone has annoited him the savior. the guy is still raw as hell. Miles didn't say he couldn't play. Miles said he wasn't ready to ruun the ENTIRE offense for an ENTIRE game. Considering how easily Arky adjusted to him in the 2nd half, I'd say Miles was right. Here's the part where y'all all jump in and ay Miles stole the play calling from Crowton and handcuffed JJ.
Re: DC Watch: John Chavis Well I am happy for ya. You weren't watching the same game I watched. Pulling back the reigns on the offense after going up 30-14 should not dimenish Jefferson's superb play in the first 33 minutes of that ballgame. Let's see, project that out and it's 54 points scored by LSU had we not decided to run the clock out 20 minutes prematurely.
