Proof is in the pudding. BTW I dont know what the hell you are trying to show me with your examples. You must have forgot the great O-lines and D-lines Saban had.
I haven't read all the replies...so I don't know where this thread is going. But to answer the original question...I have two observations of what happened the last several years. 1) Les Miles is a great coach when he surrounds himself with great assistant coaches. When he first got here the coaches were a heck of a lot better (it turns out in retrospect) than the last couple of years. I give Miles credit for making quick changes in his staff. He got rid of Mallory/Proveto and replaced them with Chavis....Great move. He added Cooper, Gonzales, Ensminger, Wilson...great moves. We are just a Crowton and a Studrawa away from a Nick Saban type staff. 2) We had too many thugs and bums on the team several years ago... With regards to the last two or three years the players have drastically improved characterwise. That team with Byrd and Lafell had some real bad apples on it. Perrilloux, for sure, but there were others...Byrd just about admitted in an interview, I remember, that he basically quit. BHelm can help me out with the specifics, but the interview was right after we lost that Arkansas game in which the players were pointing fingers at each other and for the first time in my adult life I saw an LSU team flat...out...quit. Sure Perrilloux was gone by then, but it seemed his ghost was still in the locker room. There was a lot of attrition after that...and that was a good thing. I give Miles a lot of credit for getting the team leaders we have now....guys like Shep, Peterson, Randle, are commonplace on the team now. We have a high level of good character now and lots of leadership. Things are looking up this year. :tigereye:...patience guys !!
to answer the original question, and I am surprised no one else has said it, but 07 alot of that offense was from Jimbo. Usually first year coordinators use slowly transition. I remember Crowton saying at the NC game that it was just then that he was adding some wrinkles. We did run some Pistol, etc, but it was all predicated mostly by the old offense. You are seeing the same thing with the BG offense being assimilated into the GC offense.
So the players in 2007 were Sabans recruits but coached by Miles which won a :crystal:? To bad Saban couldn't do better his last year with his OWN players...
