BLOGTOBERFEST! RAMPANT ANALYSIS EDITION
Blogtoberfest! Because your attention span needs to be shortened.
Bout to turn game into the Quan Cosby Show. For the moment, advantage Texas:
It’s never to early to begin Christmas shopping. Tennessee fans and ideas: they have them.
[REDACTED.] Brian’s breaking down the film of Michigan’s beating by Illinois, and the evidence looks damning, especially when the conclusion is that [NAME REDACTED] outcoached RichRod.
They don’t step on the lines in Belle Glade. Lieutenant Winslow can find a spectacular moment of athleticism in even the most stinging of close losses to Florida State. Those lines are on fire. You can’t step on them. GO.
It’s not that different, except for the lack of scoring. SEC defenses are easy and simple, according to Dave Clawson. The problem comes with scoring on them, which is surprisingly required in the job description. He’s working on that, we swear.
The playbook has been reduced to a convenient pamphlet for you. Tony Franklin continues to pare down the playbook, which is now a fake punt, one zone stretch play, and a bubble screen.
Four losses to unranked opponents. Florida’s lost four games to unranked opponents under Urban Meyer. Les Miles at LSU? One. Blutarsky wonders why the common perception is that Meyer is a better coach than Miles, but the answer’s simple to the misanthrope: normal, average people find interesting people with a penchant for the high side of risk management frightening and disturbing, much in the same way that many people don’t eat at Taco Bell because “it’s too spicy.” Miles is no Chalupa Barn of a coach, but that’s the point exactly: Miles isn’t even that wacky, but instead understands the relative points value on 4th and 1. Math + unconventional thinking= nervous monkeys all around.












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I must traitorously rebut. The difference is that Shula wasn’t winning with Shula’s guys, but Saban is. So it cannot be said that Saban is riding the remnant coattails of his predecessor’s success.
I’ll now re-equip my purple and gold colored glasses and pretend LSU will have the same success with recruits neither coached nor recruited by St. Nick.
Comment by crawtater — October 9, 2008 @ 9:00 pm
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#15, not being an S-E-C fan, I don’t have the details of that game seared into my memory, but even if the actual result of the play was a TD with :01 left (so an incompletion would result in a FG attempt with :01 left), there had to have been a non-trivial chance of a sack or of the QB scrambling around for 1 second more than he actually did before throwing the ball.
Comment by Dave — October 9, 2008 @ 12:44 pm
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I love the notion now that Les is winning because LSU get freaky athleats. Last I checked, everyone gets to recruit the same kids. They came to LSU by choice. Les recruited most of the players he is coaching and assembled a pretty good staff as well. Who knows, maybe he knows what he’s doing???
By the way… will everyone get off Nick’s back for winning with Shula’s guys???
Comment by Snakebite Robicheaux — October 9, 2008 @ 9:26 am
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So…you’re saying between the two, LSU has done more with Les?
Comment by Magic Hobo — October 8, 2008 @ 11:14 pm
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People think Meyer is a better coach because he “does more with less”. (Although based on those numbers, though, he appears to be doing the same with less.)
LSU has freakish athletes, especially on the defensive side of the ball. This allows Les a greater margin for error, and when you think you can get a yard on 4th with that defense behind you, sure, why the hell not?
Also, the East is stronger than the West. Most years LSU just has to beat Auburn and Bama to reach the SECCG, while Florida has to go through Georgia, Tennessee, sometimes Cocky, and sometimes KY Jelly.
BTW, the fallacy which drives me nuts is the one related to last year’s LSU TD pass vs Auburn. The play ended with :01 on the clock. If dude drops the pass, the play ends with :01 on the clock, and Les kicks a FG to win. THE CLOCK OPERATOR DOES NOT RUN THE CLOCK AN EXTRA SECOND FOR INCOMPLETE PASSES!!!
Comment by Raider Red — October 8, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
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@13- AJ HAwk wasn’t on the 2006 OSU team- he graduated in after 2005 and was a Packer by then. And Ginn wasn’t really on the team that UF faced…….not that I think he’d have made much of a difference, with Troy “In ‘n’ Out” Smith doing his best Charlie Weis impression before that game.
Comment by MikeLew — October 8, 2008 @ 4:13 pm
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Damn, that rap battle between Daughtry and Webster is the shiznit. Clawson should know a thing bout SEC defenses…..its just that he dont know offenses……..I nominate him and Ron Franklin for the “SEC Offensive Coordinators: Punk’d Edition”…although I dont know who is getting Punkd the worse…..I still cannot watch the Ten vs Auburn game replay without weeping… ………and I hate both teams equally…Tony Franklin should involve the shuffle pass more with Chris Todd to take advantage of his weak arm..
The most telling thing about coaching is winning with players that you 100% recruited and won with….I think Miles gets the nod since Florida looks great on offense, not as good on defense as LSU is now…..and facing tOSU in the National Championship game helps too, which both did and defeated easily…..
The question is which tOSU team was better version that lost? The version vs LSU or the Troy Smith version with Tedd Ginn and AJ Hawk? I dont think Terrell Pryor would have been a factor, even though I think he is better now than Troy Smith ever was……
Tim Tebow……..a fullback than can run the Wild Hog in the NFL? He will be rich no matter where he goes,but he has 2 things working against him…He is a Florida QB, and he won the Heisman…..he is twice cursed…Bell,Palmer,Wueffel,Matthews,Grossman,Leak..and Doug Johnson…..I think he may replace Wueffel on the All Time Gator Century Mega Yardage TD’s Thing, but not the Draddy….
Comment by Mr.Pelican Pants — October 8, 2008 @ 3:26 pm
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The real question is, who would you rather drink with (Meyer, Miles)? Not even close - the hat (dam fine football team) wins easily. Bah
Comment by croc — October 8, 2008 @ 3:03 pm
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Comment by Clemson327 — October 8, 2008 @ 2:56 pm