The certainly did stop it under Arny. LSU won one SEC championship but lost 2 other non-conference games that year. LSU was never in the running for a national championship and lost plenty of games under him. They were good but that is the wrong mentality. They lost all their bowl games under him I believe so no, they could stop it. The job of the coaches is to put the players in the best position to succeed not in the best position to fail. Sure there are times when you put your guy back in the I and say my guys think we are tougher than your guys but you don't use that every freaking play. That is stupid.
The way we can run it now we should have some wide open play action stuff, but there are a couple of problems that are keeping us from achieving this. Jefferson does not play-fake well at all, and then Jefferson does not hit the open receiver down field well at all. I guess that is really just one problem, my bad.
Well if you truly are tipping the play, you've already lost the most important part of the battle. You chance of succeeding diminishes greatly. But I get your point.
But when is the last time Miles has punished anyone for mistakes during game play? He needs to get in these kid's faces and scare the bezeesus out of them. Not pat them on the helmet as we so often see on the sidelines. If the kid is too weak minded to handle it, the likelihood is he probably shouldn't be on the field to begin with. I think we're an absolute mess in mishandling the psyche of these kids. Tough love is the way to go.
True....our problem has not been the opponent knowing the plays, execution has been terrible for the most part. I don't see tipping of the plays, I see predictable play calling. And yes, I've seen us pass from under center. We run enough of the same plays out of different formations, I've seen the beloved option run under center single back, under center 2 backs, shotgun single back, etc...
Tipping of the play calls was actually fixed somewhat, they have eliminated a ton of the packages that foretell which call was coming. He is still predictable as hell in down and distance and with formations. Seriously since about the 4th-5th game of 2008, we were calling out the play based on the personnel and formation. It was funny as hell in a way. Now it's just predictable with some tipping by formation.
Here is the quote TigerRag - West Virginia Postgame Wrap-Up Quote: “While we were watching film we got tips about what they were going to run. They were tipping some of their plays off. For the most part we knew what they were going to do. We tried to execute on what we were trying to do.” - WVU DB Keith Tandy on defending the LSU offense here is the other quote that pissed me off Quote: “I had a pretty good performance. We had a couple of dropped balls. I had a couple of inaccurate throws, and I just need to work on that.” - QB Jordan Jefferson on his outing Saturday night
