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Lost in all the hoopla about rules & HUNH is LSU's Defensive Coordinator...
Posted on 2/14/14 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 2/14/14 at 12:44 pm
Dude's gone up against Oregon in 2011, UWV in 2011, Malzahn in 2010, TAMU in 2012 and 2013, and Auburn this year...All of these teams run variants of tempo out of Spread Sets if not using it as a part of their base offensive sets and systems.
Each time we've shut them down. Sure, we were sweating in College Station, but that had more to do with the fact that Mett had a terrible passing day two years ago against the Aggies. Same in Morgantown in 2011. They made it close only after Rueben Randle dropped a pass that hit him in the hands in the end zone (after which he showed no emotion, not that he ever does but I digress).
...and in the interest of full disclosure, we lost to Ole Miss this year with our offense giving up three possessions with a turnover on an interception from our QB. We also lost out to Cam running behind a senior-laden OL in 2010 running a HUNH type of offense as well.
But while these show that no man retires undefeated, Chief Chavis has solved the HUNH Rubix Cube. I think most would agree we didn't do anything positionally out of the ordinary. We have had freakish defenses the past few years, but even when we didn't measure up to our recent standards (like this year), we still bottled up JFF and Auburn running the HUNH.
This is meant as much of a toot-your-horn post as it is to wonder...why try to legislate an advantage out of the game when its apparent that some coaches and teams can defend it fairly well, fairly consistently, and have for several years? I know we arne't the only team that's fared faily well against these teams the past few years...
Each time we've shut them down. Sure, we were sweating in College Station, but that had more to do with the fact that Mett had a terrible passing day two years ago against the Aggies. Same in Morgantown in 2011. They made it close only after Rueben Randle dropped a pass that hit him in the hands in the end zone (after which he showed no emotion, not that he ever does but I digress).
...and in the interest of full disclosure, we lost to Ole Miss this year with our offense giving up three possessions with a turnover on an interception from our QB. We also lost out to Cam running behind a senior-laden OL in 2010 running a HUNH type of offense as well.
But while these show that no man retires undefeated, Chief Chavis has solved the HUNH Rubix Cube. I think most would agree we didn't do anything positionally out of the ordinary. We have had freakish defenses the past few years, but even when we didn't measure up to our recent standards (like this year), we still bottled up JFF and Auburn running the HUNH.
This is meant as much of a toot-your-horn post as it is to wonder...why try to legislate an advantage out of the game when its apparent that some coaches and teams can defend it fairly well, fairly consistently, and have for several years? I know we arne't the only team that's fared faily well against these teams the past few years...
Posted on 2/14/14 at 12:44 pm to GFunk
Posted on 2/14/14 at 12:52 pm to GFunk
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Malzahn in 2010 and 2013, and Auburn this year
Auburn's running game destroyed LSU's 2010 defense... and we had over 400 yards this past year... let's not act like Chavis has the secret formula for stoppping gus.
Dan Mullen's defense have done just as good, if not better.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 12:53 pm to GFunk
I think it's helped lsu that most of these games were very early in the season.
Usually the HUNH teams really hit their stride later in the year
Usually the HUNH teams really hit their stride later in the year
Posted on 2/14/14 at 12:53 pm to GFunk
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Malzahn in 2010
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Each time we've shut them down
Posted on 2/14/14 at 12:54 pm to GFunk
I wonder what the Rant will say when Freeze embarrasses Chavis with his starters instead of his third string next Fall.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 12:58 pm to GFunk
I respect LSU coaches. At least they show up with a solid gameplan, kick our arse, and move on. They don't whine like little babies to the rules committee.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 1:39 pm to GFunk
No one forgot about Chavis. IMO he's head and shoulders above Saban right now. He deals with the HUNH the way he deals with it and doesn't bitch about it. And has a lot of success.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 1:48 pm to GFunk
You think you shut down Malzahn in 2010?
This post was edited on 2/14/14 at 1:50 pm
Posted on 2/14/14 at 2:01 pm to GFunk
Look at what Derek Mason did at Stanford the past two seasons. That's equally impressive.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 2:04 pm to GFunk
How did LSU fare versus 2012 Alabama, 2013 Georgia, and 2013 Alabama's power running games?
Posted on 2/14/14 at 2:07 pm to GFunk
LSU shut down Auburn in 2010? Auburn ran for 400 yards.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 2:09 pm to GFunk
Chief is actually the best at stopping it. Has a lot to do with personnel though. Small, quick linebackers vs the lineman that Saban turns into linebackers. In a 3/4 your linebackers can be big and slow because there are 4 of them. That is a killer against spread HUNH which is why Saban is getting the rule changed.
Posted on 2/14/14 at 5:12 pm to GFunk
LSU developed a great way to fake injures and not get caught. Please help our team by showing how you did that.
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