Comments on: BLOGTOBERFEST! RAMPANT ANALYSIS EDITION

By: crawtater

crawtater — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:00:07 +0000

@17
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.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:44:05 +0000

#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.

By: Snakebite Robicheaux

Snakebite Robicheaux — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:26:01 +0000

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???

By: Magic Hobo

Magic Hobo — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:14:14 +0000

@15:

So…you’re saying between the two, LSU has done more with Les?

By: Raider Red

Raider Red — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:36:34 +0000

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!!!

By: MikeLew

MikeLew — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:13:39 +0000

@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.

By: Mr.Pelican Pants

Mr.Pelican Pants — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:26:45 +0000

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….

By: croc

croc — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:03:07 +0000

The real question is, who would you rather drink with (Meyer, Miles)? Not even close – the hat (dam fine football team) wins easily. Bah

By: Clemson327

Clemson327 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:56:05 +0000

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By: Digital Headbutt

Digital Headbutt — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:48:52 +0000

The Quotes page in Muschamp for Tennessee is egregiously lacking in three words.

By: Der Schatten

Der Schatten — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:58:39 +0000

As if we needed ANY confirmation, but Greg Doyel is a raging fucking douche. If the statue of liberty needed some refreshing under the robes, doyel would be one of the few people with the vinegar wherewithal to manage the job.

By: Holly

Holly — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:57:46 +0000

I just bet.

By: lt.winslow

lt.winslow — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:26:01 +0000

technically… the great barstoolio can find a spectacular moment of athleticism in even the most stinging of close losses to Florida State. i just piggy back along for the ride

By: George

George — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:25:11 +0000

The “points value” question is more surprising than most people think. In almost every case, going for it on 4th and 1 or 2 is a good idea. The inflection point is somewhere around your own 35-yard line.

In deciding whether to do a post about it, you have to do your own inflection point calculation: which gains more readers, knowing something about the game or avoiding, for one more day, the terrifying specter of the maths?

By: Chips O'Toole

Chips O'Toole — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:23:05 +0000

So I suppose in the SEC allegory that is the Blues Brothers, Elwood Blues and his dry white toast is Urban Meyer while Jake Blues and his four fried chickens and a coke is Les Miles? Or does the fried chicken mean he’s Phil Fulmer? I’m confused.