LGT Final: Louisiana 34, Coastal Carolina 24

[Jacob81]

What are you even talking about? The SBC Championship is all that matters in today’s game. The SBC is down and won’t be in contention for the CFP slot this year. It doesn’t mean the goals change.

You are confusing the result, aka bowl eligibility, with the goal.

It’s the highest ranked g5 conference champ, not the conference champ from the highest rated g5 conference. If we win out we will be in the discussion.

[covcaj]

It’s the highest ranked g5 conference champ, not the conference champ from the highest rated g5 conference. If we win out we will be in the discussion.

If Boise or SMU keep winning it will be one of them.

[Hudsheen#Fired]

If Boise or SMU keep winning it will be one of them.

SMU is in the ACC, Right now it looks like AAC or MWC conference champ has the leg up on us as Boise, UNLV, Army, Navy, Tulane are all above us

[Rainman66]

The drops drive me nuts more than Dez’s play calling.

We continued to run stretch plays with Washington, he is an inside RB. That is why he had a bad day. Zylan Perry is extremely effective running stretch plays.

We have been the best offense week in and week out. We can run essentially at will. We can pass it, when we catch the ball, at will. What we don’t do is effectively score the football.

IMHO it is because of play sequencing. I will admit, that isn’t on Dez all the time. Wooldridge is an ultra safe QB. He rarely ever takes chances, sometimes that hurts our scoring opportunities.

We run a very balanced offense, this season in particular, finally utilizing the biggest mismatch on the field. Which is our TE room.

Our first twenty or so offensive plays in every single game are scripted. That is a full weeks worth of game prep and play sequencing to exploit mismatches. Dez and staff are excellent when it comes to this. It’s about as good as it gets. Execution is what stalls those drives.

4th drive, pretty good series. Execution stalled the drive.

5th drive, pathetic. 3 timeouts, middle of the field is wide open. Legendre and Johnson hadn’t been stopped all game. We could have easily been in FG range had we utilized the middle of the field.

6th drive, ineffective play calls for the player personnel. Wasted series.

7th drive. Another series where the play calling went away from success.

9th drive, absolutely wrong call on 3rd down. Prior to that, the play calling was decent. But you have to do what works well on a 3rd down call. We rarely if ever run an isolated route with success.

The last scoring drive was luck. It didn’t help that we kept shooting ourselves in the foot. But great pocket presence by Ben and an effort play by Johnson saved our behind. Although Neal was wide open had a better throw been made. We had to get the first down because our defense can’t be trusted to win us a game.

What I do like about the play calling this season as opposed to his previous seasons. I love the pace of the offense. We can effectively run and throw the ball. Finally incorporating the TE. Something we should have been doing since Bustle left. Some of the plays we have ran this season have been incredibly designed. Especially last week against App St.

Dez gets in ruts with his sequencing and it hurts our scoring offense.

When we play TxSt, ULM and the SBC East champ we will need to score.

We cannot run it at will, and people who insist on doing this need to evolve their thinking. Teams are loading the box against us, thus making it much easier to throw the ball, and thankfully we have the QB and receiving talent to absolutely make them pay.

Have we, at times, been successful against running it against overloaded boxes, yes we have, that doesn’t mean it is advisable to do it. The literal numbers are against you and in the long term will provide more negative outcomes than positive ones.

My main complaint with Des’ play calling, and/or Ben’s adjustments, this year is that we have run the ball too much into bad boxes. I understand it in the past, when we probably didn’t have the best QB, receivers or routes in our system to take advantage of it, but we definitely do this season.

All that being said, I stand by my statement that this is the best offense we have had in this century and play calling has everything to do with that. Des/Fenroy were explosive, but no one was scared of the pass. Teams have to prepare to defend every part of the field against us this season.

[Jacob81]

SMU is in the ACC, Right now it looks like AAC or MWC conference champ has the leg up on us as Boise, UNLV, Army, Navy, Tulane are all above us

Yes. I said if we run the table we will be in the discussion.

[cajun4life]

It’s the highest ranked g5 conference champ, not the conference champ from the highest rated g5 conference. If we win out we will be in the discussion.

No kidding, yes I understand that. Regardless, the goal of every single successful G5 program isn’t a bowl game. Bowl games are consolation prizes. Schedule well enough, win your games, with style, and win the SBC Championship.

CFP playoff, not easy, but attainable.

[Swamp]

CFP playoff, not easy, but attainable.

Now do you get what I was pointing at, and not looking to continue this war.

You took my applause toward eligibility in 7 games as though, we good. Catch a bowl game check, good season.

This is simply not the case. The hard core folks on this platform (RP) don't think we're gonna accomplish great things. We know it.

[CharlieK]

Interesting. "Dez haters"
If being able to identify shortcomings of a football team and some coaching decisions makes one a "Dez hater" I guess I hate Michael Desormeaux. Huh.....thanks for letting me know. I didn't realize I hated that man. I always thought I could just identify mistakes made, regardless if we won or lost. I guess Dez hates his football team and it's staff. Hell, Dez must hate himself. I mean EVERY. . .SINGLE. . . WEEK....he goes over and over, all the mistakes made in the previous games to his team, coaching staff and himself. Dez is actually on a whole other level with his hate. He actually designs the whole pregame week making everyone practice to not make those mistakes again, so that it doesn't cost us a loss. It's like he has this real dumb@$$ viewpoint that even when they win, he feels this NEED to point out all their mistakes and makes them work on fixing them, to boot!!! What a hater! At least I'm not THAT much of a hater though, right?

No the haters are the ones who imply or flat out say we are winning in spite of Dez. The ones who imply or flat out say he is an idiot. The ones who make up nonsensical arguments like he changed his play calling halfway thru the game then magically changed it back. The ones who claim we have far and away better talent and are winning in spite of dez.

You know what and whom I’m talking g about. Those who have decided he was the wrong hire 3 years ago and therefore can never be a good coach.

I don’t think you are one of those.

[CharlieK]

A lot of guys on here have thin skin. Any criticism is viewed as hate. Too take a Foote term…they are mental midgets.

Also bowl games are meaningless. If you only have to win 50% of your games to get there, it’s not an achievement. Conference titles are the only thing that matters in this age of football.

No, not any criticism. Clearly biased criticism with an agenda and zero or almost zero credit given for successes.

It’s easy to tell the difference if you try.

As far as thin skin, some on here I guess want to be able to ____ on coaches or whoever and never get questioned. Who has the thin skin?

[Turbine]

The ones who imply or flat out say he is an idiot....

"Imply" is up for interpretation but only one has ever said such bad things about him.

He said the same thing about Napier and never posts after a win. (although he might after reading this post )