One of Louisiana-Lafayette football coach Mark Hudspeth’s favorite analogies — and if I’ve learned anything covering this team for two months, it’s that Hudspeth loves analogies — is looking at his team as if it were a puzzle.
It’s a great way to simplify something that is incredibly complex. As much as armchair quarterbacks are loath to admit, winning a football game is not always as simple as making a substitution or calling one play instead of another. At its core, football is about making the right concepts and the right people fit together.