Tinker Town: "Before the Paul Dietzel coaching college football tenure at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La. The LSU football program mostly played their college football games before a very sparse crowd of the LSU tiger faithful, in LSU tiger stadium. Depending on just who the LSU football team was playing against on the LSU college football schedule. Because that would determine for the most part just how large the crowd would get to be. Against teams like Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Auburn, Ole Miss, Miss State. They were the reliable SEC college football teams that might cause the LSU tigers stadium crowd to reach over 50,000 attending. If LSU was having a good year. Sometimes the Saturday night LSU football game crows would get a house full of 62,000 the LSU stadium capacity, back in the fifties. But for the most part, not so much.
The 1957 LSU college football team with FB Jimmy Taylor, RB Billy Cannon, QB Warren Rabb, RB Johnny Robinson, started catching the full attention of the LSU college football fans, with some outstanding big time exiting college football plays. Going 5 and 5 after the 1957 LSU football season. The won lost record was nothing to wright home about. But what was becoming so exiting to everyone looking at LSU play football in 1957, was Billy Cannons speed and size. Along with a obviously very talented bunch of LSU tiger team mates.
LSU Head coach Paul Dietzel used the new LSU fan attention into simply adding to the beginning of rebuilding the LSU floundering college football teams program. Jimmy Taylor went to Green Bay, coached by Vince Lombardi. And then Billy Cannon, with the birth of Paul Dietzel Chinese bandits, led the LSU fighting tiger football team to a 1958 undefeated untied National Championship.
The magic Iron was struck into a long lasting deep spirited LSU fan affection with the LSU college football program. Winning was now the credo of each and ever LSU college football team for evermore. So you know the rest of this very fascinating soulful college football team story. Now going on in LSU tigerland for many of the past decades in Baton Rouge, La.
92,000 and growing. With 20,000 more college football fans outside tailgating, camped out in cars, and trucks, campers, tents, around tiger stadium. Thousand and thousands more looking at them play on each football Saturday thru their televisions sets all over the state of Louisiana,
The Big time TV Networks just keep supplying the big time money. To a multimillion dollar and growing LSU college football program. Fan attention is not a problem now. When the Golden band from tigerland marches out onto the pregame football field in or out of tiger stadium. The LSU fans hearing them play becoming enthralled with the LSU fighting tiger spirit. The thrill is not gone. But indeed still going strong.
But I am afraid that the past eight years of Les Miles head coaching tenure is putting the LSU football fans in a very uncomfortable purgatory of not getting what they are paying for, in both money and spirit. Is the magic iron at LSU growing cold?"
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Rough ending for LSU
Mike Detillier
NFL Analyst
NFL Analyst
The 2012 seasons didn't end the way most thought it would for the LSU Tigers.
LSU was looked at as a
team that could contend for the BCS national championship, but losing
the likes of cornerback Tyrann Mathieu and outside linebacker Tahj Jones
for the season and offensive tackles Chris Faulk and Alex Hurst,
halfback Alfred Blue and guard Josh Williford to either injuries or
personal reasons, the Tigers won 10 games and didn't get to a BCS bowl
game.
But the way LSU lost
to Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Bowl again points out that game-day
management is still a point of major concern.
To
be honest, Clemson was the better team, but with less than two minutes
left to play, LSU had the lead with a chance to put the game away.
After
an 8-yard pass on first down, LSU unexpectedly threw to incomplete
passes, giving Clemson all of its time outs and a chance to win the game
with a field goal. That is exactly what happened.
In
this spot, you have to play the odds. LSU should have run the ball
twice, forcing Clemson to use two timeouts, and give the ball to the
best offensive weapon.
Freshman
running back Jeremy Hill rushed for more than 120 yards and was
averaging 10 yards per carry, but the baffling part of this is that with
eight three-and-outs Hill did not touch the ball in the fourth quarter.
For
LSU fans who have watched this same thing in the past against the likes
of Tennessee, Ole Miss and Alabama, it is the same old, same old.
Les
Miles has been the most successful coach in LSU history, as an 85-21
record speaks for itself in the competitive world of college football
and also in the toughest conference — the SEC. But late game-day
management has me wondering just what it will take for Miles to
relinquish some of those calls in these games.
Miles
was brought up under the tutelage of Michigan's Bo Schembechler, who
was all about smash-mouth football, playing the percentages and playing
smart in the fourth quarter.
Schembechler
was not about fancy play, four wide-receiver sets and tricking people
to get crucial first downs and touchdowns. He was all about man-on-man
blocking, making second-and-two situations with a big offensive line and
a halfback carrying the ball and playing smart.
For
2013, LSU is loaded along the offensive line with good young players, a
bevy of talented running backs and an improving receiving unit, but the
big question mark again is with the passing game and the development of
quarterback Zach Mettenberger.
Offensive
line coach/running game coordinator Greg Studrawa is a good coach and
his units have gotten it done for the most part, even though they
struggled to give Mettenberger protection against Clemson, but Miles
needs to bring in a new passing-game coordinator and quarterback coach.
I
know this is a sensitive issue as quarterbacks coach Steve Kragthorpe
is dealing with a serious medical issue, but this is a production
business and a change needs to be made.
From
Jordan Jefferson to Jarrett Lee and now Mettenberger, the quarterbacks
are making the same mistakes, don't seem to have good pocket presence
and have not improved their play.
And where are the tight ends and running backs in LSU's passing attack?
They have not been utilized in the passing game and this has to be a big part of LSU's offense.
Mettenberger's development has to be LSU's biggest concern in 2013 because of the losses the team will have on defense.
The
offense will have to carry LSU early in 2013 while the Tigers' young
defensive line gets some experience and you find out fully who can play
in the SEC.
LSU has never lost that many juniors to the NFL, especially on defense.
The
Tigers could lose six players if juniors Barkevious Mingo, Sam
Montgomery and Bennie Logan leave early for the NFL. LSU already has to
replace three key seniors in defensive ends Lavar Edwards and Chancey
Aghayere and defensive tackle Josh Downs.
LSU
has always been known as Defensive Line University. For nine straight
seasons, LSU has had a defensive lineman selected in the draft. This
year will make it 10, but there is a lot of uncertainty on who will be
that next dominant defensive lineman and how the rotation of players
will develop in 2013.
Also
losing its best defensive player in middle linebacker Kevin Minter, one
of the top safeties in Eric Reid and its best cover-cornerback in
Tharold Simon, LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis will face some big
challenges next season.
The
good news is that Miles is a top recruiter, and LSU has turned into the
new "U" in college football. LSU is to nationwide recruits what Miami
(Fla.) was in the 1980s and 1990s.
These
players can play at the highest level and love LSU, especially on
defense, because they see all of the former Tigers playing in the NFL
and selected in the draft.
It
is amazing that the Tigers not only can get most of the top players in
the state but secure some of the best defensive linemen in the nation.
LSU has become the magnet for top defensive linemen and last season added the most talented group of freshmen linebackers ever.
On
Friday, LSU added to that by getting a commitment from the best player
in the state — East Feliciana High quarterback/outside linebacker
Kendell Beckwith (6-foot-2 ½, 230 pounds). He picked LSU over over
Alabama, Notre Dame, Florida State and Miami, and there might be other
top prospects before the February signing date.
Beckwith is a tremendous athlete with outstanding edge pass rushing skills and lateral flow movement.
It is reload time for LSU's defense, but this team has great talent and have shown it can develop talent on defense.
But
right now, LSU and Miles knows and should make the change to go out and
acquire a top passing game/quarterback coach that can help manage that
part of the game and fully develop the passing skills of Mettenberger,
Stephen Rivers and freshman quarterbacks Hayden Rettig and Anthony
Jennings.
LSU has been a
good team under Miles, and he has kept this team near the top of college
football. But a return to the top means a change on offense and
bringing in someone that can fully develop quarterbacks, which has been
sorely lacking in that department.
EARLY LOOK AT DRAFT
There
is no doubt that the New Orleans Saints are going to have some salary
cap problems in 2013, especially with trying to re-sign offensive tackle
Jermon Bushrod and getting a new deal done with tight end Jimmy Graham.
Changes will be and have to be made on defense, so this makes the draft more important than ever before.
There's
a still a long way to go until the April's NFL draft, but here is my
early look at my top 25 players that could be available.
1. Luke Joeckel, offensive tackle, Texas A&M (junior)
2. Jarvis Jones, outside linebacker, Georgia (junior)
3. Star Lotulelei, defensive tackle, Utah
4. Damontre Moore, defensive end, Texas A&M (junior)
5. Bjoern Werner, defensive end, Florida State (junior)
6. Taylor Lewan, offensive tackle, Michigan (junior)
7. Manti Te'o, inside linebacker, Notre Dame
8. Barkevious Mingo, outside linebacker, LSU (junior)
9. Tajh Boyd, quarterback, Clemson (junior)
10. Chance Warmack, offensive guard, Alabama
11. Dee Milliner, cornerback, Alabama (junior)
12. Sheldon Richardson, defensive tackle, Missouri (junior)
13. Johnathan Hankins, defensive tackle, Ohio State (junior)
14. Geno Smith, quarterback, West Virginia
15. Alec Ogletree, inside linebacker, Georgia (junior)
16. Dion Jordan, defensive end, Oregon (junior)
17. Sam Montgomery, defensive end, LSU (junior)
18. Shariff Floyd, defensive tackle, Florida (junior)
19. Jake Matthews, offensive tackle, Texas A&M (junior)
20. Xavier Rhodes, cornerback, Florida State (junior)
21. Keenan Allen, wide receiver, California (junior)
22. Matt Elam, strong safety, Florida (junior)
23. DeAndre Hopkins, wide receiver, Clemson (junior)
24. Alex Okafor, defensive end, Texas
25. Matt Barkley, quarterback, USC
NICHOLLS' PIPER DRAWING INTEREST
Nicholls State University inside linebacker Jordan Piper has been an outstanding football player for the Colonels.
In the past two seasons, Piper has been one of the top defensive players in the Southland Conference, finishing 188 tackles.
Nicholls
coach Charlie Stubbs say Piper (5-9, 230 pounds) has attracted NFL
scouts to the Thibodaux campus. The scouts, however, are not looking at
Piper as a linebacker but as a blocking fullback.
"There
is some background that teams looking at blocking fullbacks or
fullbacks in general look at former linebackers," Stubbs said. "I had a
couple of those type players when I was coaching at Alabama, and the
scouts like Piper's very physical nature, his strength at the point of
attack and his leverage skills. He would be an outstanding special teams
player also, and he will stay here and work on catching the ball more
cleanly coming out of the backfield. I have no doubt someone will give
Jordan that chance to play fullback at the NFL level."
NFL analyst Mike Detillier lives in Raceland.
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