re: Athlon's SEC Coaches Rankings

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The real difference between 2011 and the 2012 team is redzone and third and short efficiency.

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That, and Rueben Randle.

LSU had problems replacing him in 2012. Randle was the deep threat that made the defense pay for stacking the box. The 2011 offense was not spectacular, but they took advantage of 8 man fronts with single coverage on Randle.

We did not have a deep threat in 2012, and we were unable to take advantage of single coverage. Still pretty incredible at the year Jeremey Hill had considering he was running into 8, 9 sometimes 10 man fronts.