Lost in all the hoopla about rules & HUNH is LSU's Defensive Coordinator...

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...