Didn't say I wanted to shoot YOU. Just myself and others wouldn't mind seeing Higgins retire or sent out to pasture or in another colorful occurrence. Let's just put it this way. If you could be hung for being a competent sports reporter, in Ron Higgins case, they would be hanging an INNOCENT man. You obviously didn't see the criticisms and comments he has been getting lately for his fictional attacks (NOT our opinions by the way but clearly substantiated by the facts of their recruitment) about LSU not signing highly recruited/rated QBs. They have been signing highly rated QBS...Mettenberger....Rettig....Jennings...Harris....Franks committed. Once again, when your headline specifically states one thing....you are destroyed by the commenters as being nonsense...and your response is to disavow your own headline, 'nuff said.
No, it has not. That is why if people want to criticize "development" that can be debated. And I agree with what Tommy Tuberville said one time that the 2 toughest positions to project from HS to college are QBs and CBs. Thus, there is objective and conclusive evidence that "signing highly recruited and rated QBs" is NOT the issue. If someone wants to make that claim then they need to call up Malzahn and ask him why he was desperately trying to sign Brandon Harris for example. The QBs I listed above had many major schools after them and they were low to high 4* prospects by the services. Once again,. the evidence is in and Ron Higgins has been found guilty of utter ignorance and stupidity! As I've said many times, the passing game is more than just the QB. Cam Cameron needs to change his predictable/no misdirection EVER playcalling which puts LSU too many times in 3rd and long. The OL (particularly the C and RG positions) need to pass block better. The WRers need to know when they are the hot receiver on a blitz and look for the ball in addition to standing up while running routes and know the playbook so they are not blocking on plays when their number has been called as the primary receiver. Also, they need to be stronger so they aren't ridden out of bounds running down the sideline. Oh, and it would have really helped in the Alabama game if on 2 3rd down plays, Quinn could have caught perfectly thrown passes from Jennings that would have been 1st downs. Quinn killed 2 drives all by himself in the final quarter vs Alabama. I'm pretty sure the coaches noticed that also as Diarse started the rest of the season instead of Quinn, who had been starting.
Ok Folks, this will give you a little more info from a good coach on QB's........... Bruce Arians criticizes college's spread offenses Shortly after the NFL's read-option craze crested two years ago, Bruce Arians disparaged the dual-threat attack as merely a "great college offense." Now Arians is taking aim at the spread offense, as young quarterbacks such as Colin Kaepernick and Robert Griffin III have stalled in their development as NFL passers. "So many times, you're evaluating a quarterback who has never called a play in the huddle, never used a snap count. They hold up a card on the sideline, he kicks his foot and throws the ball," Arians said Thursday at the NFL Scouting Combine. "That ain't playing quarterback. There's no leadership involved there. There might be leadership on the bench, but when you get them and they have to use verbiage and they have to spit the verbiage out and change the snap count, they are light years behind." It's a hot-button issue leading up to the 2015 NFL Draft because Florida State's Jameis Winston is viewed as a pro-ready quarterback while Oregon's Marcus Mariota has been denounced as a spread-protected passer tasked with little beyond quick bubble screens. Spread quarterbacks have not only been slow to master the difference between "college open" versus "NFL open" receivers, but have also struggled to process information before and instantaneously after the snap. What separates the best NFL signal-callers is the capacity to pick up on subtle patterns in the defense as well as their receivers' routes. It's what analysts in all sports refer to as a "feel" for the game or "seeing" the field. As former Bears quarterback Jim Miller recently explained, quarterback at the NFL level is about making the correct situational decisions and attacking the right defensive players depending on down and distance. Arians' point is that spread quarterbacks haven't developed that feel for the game because they aren't asked to calls plays, master the opponent's changing personnel and nuanced tendencies and, perhaps most importantly, use field intelligence to perceive exactly where each defensive back and wide receiver is on every play. Playing quarterback is about taking the theory of the playbook and putting it into action on the field. That takes repetition, single-minded pursuit of incremental improvement. When the spread-offense quarterback enters the NFL, the complexity of that improvement increases against a steep learning curve.
