Chavis Tells Richt Neaux
by Poseur on Dec 31, 2009 2:52 PM CST
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PrintIt's official that Chavis has turned down the money and decided to stay on as the defensive co-ordinator, albeit with a pay bump. Not bad for a guy who was already one of the highest paid assistants in the country.
There's been some grumblings with Chavis over "third and Chavis" and how his defenses don't blitz enough. Whatever. The team is 14th in the nation in scoring defense, a year after ranking in the bottom half of the nation. This team allows about a touchdown less a game than it did last year. Our linebackers looked great this season and it was perhaps the best LB unit since 2003. The secondary also dramatically improved under Chavis' watch. OK, the defensive line is still a problem area, but I'm hoping that had more to do with personnel than coaching.
Frankly, we just needed the continuity. Had Chavis left, and I think it was a touch and go, LSU would have had to hire its fourth DC in as many years. Sometimes you just need a little continuity, and I'm excited what this defense can do with a full year under Chavis. Chavis isn't a sexy coach, he's just a guy who gets the job done with minimal fanfare: scoring goes down. That's all I want.
Honestly, I thought he was gone. Georgia offered a lot of money and there were plenty of rumors that Chavis and his family hadn't adjusted to Baton Rouge. Look, I love Louisiana, but I understand it ain't for everybody. He still has family on the coast and you can't put a price tag on things like that. I did not think he was coming back.
But I'm pleasantly surprised to find out he is. This team needs some continuity in the middle of this staff turnover. Chavis has rebuilt this defense, but his job isn't finished. He got LSU back to play good defense, now he has to get us back to great.
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There’s been some grumblings with Chavis over “third and Chavis” and how his defenses don’t blitz enough. Whatever.
^^This.
I think a lot of Tiger fans just like bitching for the sake of bitching. I am very pleased with Chavis’ performance this year. I also agree with your point about continuity. Plus, the defense was just flat out good this year. Give us a front four that could actually get pressure and it would have been downright dominant.
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one thing though
Give us a front four that could actually get pressure and it would have been downright dominant.
Our D line was a known quantity rather early in the season…yet we still ran a style of D that relies on our D line to get pressure w/o added help from the rest of the D.
So though I agree w/ your terribly obvious statement that we would have been much better if our D line could actually get pressure, this doesn’t say much. I think it is a valid point to say that Chavis doesn’t always adjust his strategy to fit his players.
Actually I disagree on this:
Our D line was a known quantity rather early in the season…yet we still ran a style of D that relies on our D line to get pressure w/o added help from the rest of the D.
I think he did adjust by having Coleman in particular blitz more from the Outside Linebacker position. The bigger problem was multiple times we got an arm on the QB but couldn’t bring him down.
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I remember this board in general being surprised by the lack of pressure from the D line. And Chavis did adjust to this bu introducing more blitzes later in the season. Remember the difference between Washington and later in the year?
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Please help me with this
How exactly was our d better after the washington game? I dont remember any big differences in the results as the season progressed.
We got no pressure on Washington and we got no pressure today.
Can you tell me more about the improvements you saw?
by Zandor435 on Jan 1, 2010 6:27 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
“a lot of Tiger fans just like bitching for the sake of bitching.”
Truer words have never been spoken. You judge a successful defense on two stats. Points allowed and turnovers generated. Everything else – number of sacks, 3rd down percentage, even yards against – is window dressing compared to those two stats.
by 4.0 Point Stance on Jan 1, 2010 10:08 AM CST up reply actions
Any LSU fan that complains about Chavis this season
does not deserve to be taken seriously. Chavis is great, and I bet we’ll be even better next year.
What Chavis did with a much-maligned linebacking corps in just a season is simply remarkable. I’m glad he’s staying.
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Coleman
Also, he made an incredibly risky move by making Coleman a linebacker. It worked out and Coleman had a great season, but had this not worked… the second guessing would have been unbelievable. I love the fact one of Chavis’ first moves was one that left him so open to criticism if it didn’t work.
He made a bold decision and it worked. He deserves a lot of credit for that.
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You are right there
Chavis has a long history of being a great linebacker coach. I heard one UT fan say that he coaches lane discipline very well. He does deserve credit for making this move.
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Just a thought as far as continuity
What if, and I know nobody thinks so right now, but what if this year was just a blip offensively? What if this is not part of the pattern Crowton showed at previous jobs? If we go back to being a great offense (like 2007, so it’s not out of the realm of possibility), Crowton could be here a long time. He doesn’t seem like he would jump at just any head coaching job, considering he’s already tried that at BYU. And then defensively, Chavis has said that there are very few programs he would leave LSU to be the head coach for. How great would it be to have 2 very good coordinators who are just happy where they are for 5, 10 years?
by Ianoka on Dec 31, 2009 6:39 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
That would be great
I would love for Crowton and Studrawa to turn their units around and prove me wrong. That’s a helping of crow (no pun intended) that I would happily eat.
What worries me is that Crowton’s offense depends even more than most on a very experienced quarterback. That leaves us in trouble anytime we lose a multi-year starter. I hope this year was conservatism due to fear of interceptions (although that doesn’t explain the issues with the running game). I fear it’s that the offense is so complex it requires a fifth year senior to run it effectively. And even in 2007, we had a huge number of delay of game/illegal formation/emergency timeouts, so the rest of the team needs to be able to grasp all the complexity as well.
Like I said, I’ll be happy if I’m proven wrong, but I don’t have that faith in Crowton’s offense right now.
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