I respectfully decline, thank you. It wasn't his OFFENSE, but it WAS his plays that were run. The only problem was that his plays never fit a ball-control offense, which resulted in the schizophrenic nature of the offense as a whole. It never knew what it wanted to be because it was always trying to be two things at the same time. It just didn't work. It wasn't Miles...it wasn't Crowton. It was the mess that was made when you tried to mix them. Ultimately, it WAS CLM's fault for hiring a coordinator that didn't complement his overall philosophy. But just like the co-DC's, I believe he has learned from his mistake. (Stud was a last-minute necessity. I'll be surprised if he's still OC after this season...unless he kicks a lot of butt!)
So what the hey are you guys trying to say ?? We would have won more games with never been fired (LOL) Gary Crowton being able to do just what he wanted to do. I think I will take the 10 wins a year Les and have you girls pissed ! TigerCliff
Yes I know why he was hired, but getting the job done is another thing. Crowton was hired to bring an innovative offense to the Tigers. The Co-defensive coordinators were promoted to maintain LSU's tough D. Tepper was hired because he was a defensive genius. Kragthorpes medical problems and move down from OC give me some worry about him getting it done. He does have the resume for the job though and I'm sure pulling for him. LSU needs help at QB awfully bad.
Will you just leave us alone and let us have our scapegoat? Look, our pride is wounded by two years of unbearably embarassing offense. Nobody likes to be the known as the highest-ranked team to ever have a triple-digit-ranked offense. It's shameful! This helps us feel better. Don't worry...come Saturday, nobody will even remember Crowton. ...hopefully. :thumb::geaux:
Nah. Don't you remember that thread during last season where someone copied a post from a BYU fan expressing his displeasure with Crowton? Remember how we all remarked that it could have just as easily been written by one of us because of the striking similarities to complaints that many of us had? Sure, Crowton prefers a high-flying offense. But when the players who had already been coached-up leave, you get what we got...a confused offense with no idenity whatsoever. He'll be successful if he can go to a program where he's just calling the games and not responsible for actually coaching the players.
Crowton is somewhat right, since all evidence from his head coaching days tells us that he wants to run a version of a "Run-n-shoot", with 4 wide and a lot of short passes. Think Texas Tech under Leach, Kentucky under Mumme and Florida under Spurrier. Les Miles, football scion of Bo Shembechler, was never going to go there. Unfortunately, Crowton was responsible for making sure the players knew the offense and the formations. He was also responsible for getting the play to the field in a timely manner. Based on the illegal procedure and delay of game procedures over the last few years, he didn't get that done. Additionally, only rarely did he use a building block approach to a game plan; rather he seemed to be pulling plays from a hat. This meant we were rarely in the same personnel package from one play to the next, often causing confusion just when we needed sanity (and it would have cost us the Tenn game had their players just stay put.) The fact that his offenses have gotten worse in successive years at each stop is not a particularly helpful resume enhancement. Still, if this is what it takes for Maryland to feel good about hiring him, so be it and good luck to him. I'm just glad we've moved on. GEAUX TIGERS
It's amazing reading through this thread. If Little johnny gets kicked out of three elementary schools in a row, but he blames the teacher at the last school he attended, at some point you start to suspect the real problem is little Johnny. I guess Crowton took Miles' ball control philosophy literally with all the three-and-outs we've produced over the last two years. But I have to give credit, the excuses people have created for him truly are commendable.
