re: Coach O

It seems so

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They could've played until the sun came up and LSU wouldn't have scored on Alabama.

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The offense was not very likely to, but Bama was locked down by LSU's D too. At any point in the first 3 quarters and into the fourth, LSU could have returned a punt, or scored on a turnover, and pulled it out. We also missed a FG in the 1st quarter that could have mattered. It was a close game that one or two big plays could have changed the outcome.

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The offense was not very likely to, but Bama was locked down by LSU's D too

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LSU's defense was great, but Alabama moved the ball in spurts most of the game. LSU had nothing at all. They didn't even come close to scoring after the 1st drive when they were handed the ball in FG range and promptly moved backwards.

Alabama had drives of
9 plays, 32 yards
9 plays, 67 yards
5 plays, 54 yards
12 plays, 90 yards
15 plays, 50 yards

LSU had drives of
6 plays, 37 yards
11 plays, 40 yards
6 plays, 15 yards
2 plays, 15 yards

Those were literally their only 4 drives that gained over 10 yards. They had 1 2nd half drive that got more than 10 yards.

Alabama had 325 yards of offense. LSU had 125.

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They either know how to do the things they are responsible for doing at a high level,

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nothing about coach O but this line of thinking is wrong.

This only works at the bottom rung of management. Managers who do actual work beyond maintaining their personnel and overseeing duties are a joke. They get stuck at these bottom levels because no-one looking to promote you will take you seriously if you try to be part of the team instead of being a boss. you're much better off complaining and showing how an increased payroll is needed than to talk about how you step in to help when you don't have the payroll or personnel in place to get the work done.

No idea how this relates to football, but I hear this kind of thing so often.

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Will go down as one of the worst hires in LSU history.

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Nah. Curley and Lou Tepper would be those. Coach O at the very least will recruit enough to win the 8 games Miles was doing at the end. He isn't going to be an actual loser. Perhaps a disappointment, but not a loser.

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Actually he was D.C. At Ole Miss and tries to do everything himself.

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That's like starting a company in your garage and saying that you work as a CEO. He's never been a real DC before.

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A good manager of any business is good because he or she does one of two things. They either know how to do the things they are responsible for doing at a high level, or they find others who do those things at a high level and delegate the work to them.

Coach O is that second guy. He finds people that excel and lets them do their thing. He finds good players and good asst coaches. The only X and O area he involves himself in is helping the Dline because that is a skill he does have.

So my question here is, hypothetically, if Coach O over say the next 5 years, averages 10 wins a year (including bowl game), where would you rank him as an SEC coach (1 to 14)? Given, he will likely have to replace both OC and DC at least once in that span, and do so successfully. If he does that well, does he get your respect?

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Coach O will have to actually "coach" football, he will have make X & O decisions throughout the week of prep and at crucial points on game day.

He will have to make important decisions regardless of how great and fantastic is staffers are. All kinds of assumptions and hypothetical's can be made, but "if" he finds a way to win 10 games a year consistently then he will have earned respect from his SEC brethren.

Scared.