re: Can You Imagine Aranda with LSU's Talent?

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The only reason our defense wasn't a complete, utter disaster last year was due to the athletes we have on the field.

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Why do I bother to correct bull shite about LSU? Because I live here, follow the tigers, and BS beliefs make it almost impossible to talk about the team intelligently....

No, "our defense ... was not due to the athletes..." Actually LSU's defense was modest because it didn't have the athletes. It had only one SEC level LB, the DL was limited 3 players who were serviceable, not one of whom would have started for Alabama, Ole Miss or Arky. The DEs were all brand new, no experience. The secondary which was supposed to be excellent, turned out to have a collective bad attitude and sometimes looked like they didn't even try.

In retrospect, the defense did better than expected given the personnel holes. So next year, what will the new coordinator do to return to the days of 2011? Unless some reinforcements from JC arrive, he will do the same thing as was done this year...try multiple ways to disguise personnel weakness. How he can play a true 3-4 with no returning SEC quality DL, no LBs, is going to be interesting to watch.

Now that I think about it, there are not that many of my LSU friends who can recognize much about what a defense is trying to do. Probably wasting my time.