We've all heard forever about this magical playbook that Coach Crowton carries around with him from school to school. Seemingly no one is ever smart enough to fully comprehend the complexity of the hefty tome. So we hear, 'Just wait until Gary is able to open up his entire playbook . . . . We'll be a scary, scoring machine.' And people actually buy it! Well, I guess he must've left a copy in Ruston when he left, and they passed it on to everyone else in the country. But he's Coach Miles' guy, so if you ain't happy with 105th ranked offense, you better shut up or risk being called a POSER.
I'm with you bro!! Getting tired of the system being more important than the talent on the team. I assure you if I'm a OC that the skill sets I have in front of me will be more important than my play book!! Starting to go south on Gary!!! we shall see!!!lefire:
Nobody thinks being 105th is acceptable. The problem is that the people who claim to be able to pass judgement on the coaching staff have no idea what they are talking about or let emotions completely cloud their judgement. There are other factors at work besides just the coaching staff's competence. I won't go through the other issues at length because they have already been addressed but quickly.... OL....lost two fantastic players last year, attrition from previous classes, different blocking scheme and you will struggle at times. QB....one talented, marshmellow brained qb kicked off the team, back ups with either no arm or not enough experience mixed with some bad luck and a classless fanbase that got into the head of a college kid. Followed by a true freshman with some raw talent, good leadership skills but by no means a finished product. Coaching staff......unquestionably affected by last years disturbing turnover ratio that is trying to manage the game by minimizing turnovers and at the same time spoon feed the young talent on this team as the season progresses. If the offense is not better next year and the following year then you go ahead and can the OC. But not now. Things have to develop.....everything is not always a finished product. Last thing, the fans remind me of those golfers who are amazed that the pros miss so many putts during the tournaments. Well, there is a reason for that....putting is goddamn difficult, there are a lot of variables involved and you can hit a lot of excellent putts that don't go in. You cannot judge everything by the immediate results....it's more complicated than that.
3 years of a regressing offense is not looking at immediate results, though. If Crowton is around next year.. I'll be very interested in seeing how it works out, it has to get better really.. there's little room to move down. We should be running a quick-passing offense with large amounts of screens to hide our developing OL.
You can't blame the "classless" fanbase for Lee's issues. He struggled in a bad way from the beginning. It's not like LSU fans started with the boos right away with him. And I've been an LSU fan for a pretty long time and I can tell you that the fans have gotten much better over the years. They used to be much quicker to boo this or that. It happens everywhere. I wish it didn't happen, but life is not always peachy. Again, the coaches set up that whole boo-fest last night by passing six straight times with no success and the game in doubt after we had clear success with the run. If anything, I thought the coaches were almost being cruel (intentionally or not).
The point with the fanbase is not that they initiated Lee's issues. The opposing defenses and playing in the SEC before he was ready were certainly the direct causes. My point is that the reaction of the fans must, at some level, increase the pressure or anxiety level of almost any but the most thick-skinned human beings in his position. I'm sure he will get over it at some point in time but the fans in Tiger Stadium have not helped him, they have made his task more difficult and for that to happen in your home stadium I find absolutely classless. Kind of like making fat jokes around people with a weight problem......and if they are family then that is even more classless. That's what I think of the boo birds in Tiger Stadium.
I don't agree with this... simply because, I doubt the fans were booing Lee directly. I think everyone was scared about TO's, but Crowton for being a supposed offensive genius, sucks balls. We won a NC 2 years ago averaging almost 40ppg, and now for the 2nd straight season we find ourselves in the joyful position to finish 4th place in the SECW if things go badly the next two weeks mostly due to play calling. I think we have more than enough talent to demolish both of the teams we face the next two weeks, but GC has become very plain and predictable. We won't win the West again until GC finds a way to utilize the young talent we have. We're playing no where near our potential, and the constant rising ticket prices are a joke if this is what we get to look forward to every week... it's no wonder the fan base is letting them know their unhappy.
I guess I am one of the FANS you are talking about! I know enough about football to see what we do verse everyone we play! what ever I will just say this I will not be upset to see that GC has moved on! thats all:tigereye:
. And you think Gary Crowton is not the coach he was two years ago? Or does it have something to do with the fact we had two stud qbs......two...do you comprehend that? None of the qbs on the current roster would have played in front of either of the qbs on the National Championship squad. Not one qb on the roster at the moment. But, for some unknown reason you think the coach should maintain the same level of production regardless of the player he is working with. Do you realize how illogical that is? That would mean Urban Meyer should have won a Nat'l Championship wherever he was. But he didn't. He hasn't won any outside of Gainesville. I'm curious to see if he wins one without Tebow on the roster. But for you it doesn't matter....he would win with Jarrett Lee, or Jefferson or Andrew Hatch. Your contention has no connection with reality. None. Bull****....put $1 on each play and call it and see how much you owe when the game is over. I see, now we are getting to the main point. It's simple....if you are not happy with the product then don't buy it. Watch the game somewhere or sell your tickets to someone else. Buying a ticket does not grant you the right to be unhappy with a Top 10 team because your disposable income is insufficient to enjoy a solid season by a rebuilding LSU team. If you were a millionaire you would give a damn about price. Let me make this last point, again. Buying a ticket doesn't grant you the right to boo the team and claim that you are not in fact a jackass of a fan. You should support the team as a fan, not sabotage it.
