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ChineseBandit · Jun 7, 2004

LSU 2004 Preview from CFN

Without doing any research on the subject, let's just go out on a limb and say that this LSU team is one of the fastest in college football history. Of course there are teams that have had great team speed and some recent Florida State, USC and Miami squads that should be counted in the mix, but the 2004 Tigers have speed everywhere.

The skill players are fast, the secondary is fast, and even the offensive linemen are relatively fast. Start with All-America sprinter Bennie Brazell as a reserve receive and star receiver recruit/Olympic sprinter hopeful Xavier Carter, and you have the beginnings of an elite 4x4 relay team. This team has more than enough candidates to fill out the other two slots.

There's the old cliché that you can't coach speed, yet that's precisely what head coach Nick Saban, offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher and defensive coordinator Will Muschamp do. No, they don't make their players faster; their designs are based on the warp speed their players can fly at. Others are going to try and imitate LSU's attacking style on defense, but they won't be able to do it without the quicks the Tiger back seven has. When you can move like this team can, everything else just falls into place.
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