You did not say it, but you wanted to….. Gary Crowton must go… I dropped my drink on the rug when I saw him call Jarrett Lee to run the option… THE OPTION… JARRETT LEE!

PS firegarycrowton.com is already taken…

and Les encourages it. Thank goodness we had some good recruiting years, because I can’t see why anyone would still want to go to LSU if Crowton is there making our talented offensive players look so much worse than they are.

is the least common denominator. Throughout the year so many have observed and commented on the poor play calling in virtually every game. It was disguised somewhat by Jefferson’s inexperience and we had to allow the season to mature so we could see if Crowton had some sort of method in bringing him along… and as you have noted, the same helter skelter play calling continues. I agree with Fla Tiger above that it was unbelievable that Jarret Lee would ever be considered to try the option; even comical. But then, Jefferson has been running the option all season and Crowton has not been able to establish in him the concept of the QB role in making the pitch work. We definitely need a change in offensive coordinator… so how about Dooley? He attacked us about as well as anyone this year with less to work with, and got outstanding production.

Anybody see parallels between Crowton’s overly complex offense that tries to do everything and makes the players worry more about thinking than playing and Tepper’s complex defenses that had everyone playing tight from having to think too much? I say it’s better to just let them play.

…let me point out a few things.

This was an offense without its starting quarterback, running back, tight end, and center.

For all of the complaints about how little we ran, we ran the ball 30 out of 53 plays, or 56.6%. That’s a strong lean to running plays.

We didn’t need to show much this game, and the defense did the offense no favors, in the first half especially, by not getting La-Tech’s offense off the field.

Now I’m sure that someone is thinking right now that we should run the ball 100% of the time if we average 6 yards a carry, like we did. However, you have to pass the ball at least a little bit to keep the defense honest. I don’t care who you are, or who you’re playing, if they have 8 or 9 in the box, running the ball is going to be quite difficult. Passing the ball, and especially throwing it deep, helps keep them honest, even if the passing plays are unsuccessful. Something related to this that I don’t quite get is why everyone’s getting mad at Crowton. You want him to literally call running plays every down? It’s not his fault Lee played an incredibly crappy game. Coaches coach, players play, and you can’t tell the defense that you’re done with one entire phase of your offense. Now this doesn’t take into account what may or may not have happened in other games, I’m talking about this one only.

Last point: we had to figure out what Lee can give us. Turns out, it’s next to nothing, at least right now. It’s better to figure that out now than to try and figure it out when Jefferson gets hurt, or if he’s not 100% and we can’t decide who to play. I would much rather figure that out against La-Tech than against Ole Miss. It’s one game. Last week we were incredibly happy at how well we played Alabama, feeling we should’ve won (and the hangover from last week could certainly have been a factor). Let’s get ready for Ole Miss, because we won’t have to see that offense again unless Jefferson gets hurt. And hopefully we’ll see Shepard or someone else if that ever happens.