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Cam Cameron hired as LSU’s new offensive coordinator
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| Times Picayune | "Source": LSU working on deal to hire Cam Cameron as offensive coordinator |
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Cam Cameron hired as LSU’s new offensive coordinator
Published February 8, 2013 - 3:04pmNEW: Discuss this topic in the Google+ community for SEC fans.
According to a report of The Times-Picayune, former Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Cam Cameron will become LSU’s new offensive coordinator. Cameron and Miles worked together for seven years at Michigan from 1987 to 1993.
Cameron used to be the head coach at Indiana from 1997 to 2001 and compiled a record of 18-37, as well as 2007 with the Miami Dolphins, but he’s been an offensive coordinator for 10 years in the NFL for two different stints with San Diego and Baltimore. Cameron hasn’t coached in college since 2001, the last year he coached the Hoosiers.
Cameron was the Baltimore Raves’ coordinator since 2008 to week 14 of the 2012 season, when John Harbaugh fired him and replaced him with Jim Caldwell.
LSU needed a change in offensive philosophy, overall direction and coordinator after last season’s underwhelming offensive season. Current coordinator Greg Studrawa will likely go back to coaching the offensive line solely, and Cameron and current quarterback coach Steve Kragthorpe will have to work together in developing quarterback Zach Mettenberger.
LSU finished ranked 10th in the SEC in total offense and 11th in passing offense.
The deal hasn’t been finalized and no official announcement has been made by the university. You can view Cameron’s coaching history here.
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LSU working on deal to hire Cam Cameron as offensive coordinator
By
Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on February 08, 2013 at 1:09 PM, updated February 08, 2
LSU Coach Les Miles and the school are working a on a deal to bring former Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator Cam Cameron into the same position on the Tiger staff, a source close to the school said Friday. Cameron and Miles worked together for seven years at University of Michigan.
Cam Cameron, who was the offensive coordinator for the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens, is reportedly working on a deal with LSU. Associated Press
More later.
Offensive coordinator Greg Studrawa is expected to return to his duties as offensive line coach after two years as offensive coordinator. Studrawa took the position when Steve Kragthorpe was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease three months after being hired for the job in 2011. Kragthorpe is not expected to return.
Like Miles, Cameron started his career at Michigan as a graduate assistant in 1983-84 and went on to coach wide receivers and quarterback from 1985-93. Miles was an assistant at Michigan from 1987-94.
After Michigan, Cameron moved on to the NFL as quarterbacks coach for the Washington Redskins (1994-97) and then spent five seasons at the head coach at Indiana (1997-2001).
Cameron returned to the NFL and spent five seasons as the offensive coordinator with the San Diego Chargers and one year as an assistant with the Miami Dolphins before getting the offensive coordinator job with the Ravens in 2008 under John Harbaugh. When the Ravens' offense continued to struggle, Cameron was fired with six games remaining in the regular season.
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TigerBaitWill #LSU receiver Avery Johnson says Tigers have hired Cam Cameron as new OC. Not certain but Greg Studrawa expected to move back O-line only.
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What I heard Hanagriff say is: it *appears* LSU will bring in Cam
Cameron as OC, Studrawa back to O-Line, Kragthorpe to admin.
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Committee to have 14-20 members
Updated: February 7, 2013, 8:57 PM ET
By
Brett McMurphy | ESPN
DALLAS -- The sites for college football's first national semifinals have been announced. The first championship game site is all but a certainty. The six bowls that will rotate as hosts for the national semifinals are a foregone conclusion.
But the biggest unknown, and perhaps the most controversial decision remaining, concerning college football's impending four-team playoff is simply this -- who will select the teams each year, and how will they be selected?
The BCS commissioners got closer to answering that question following their latest meeting Thursday at the Grand Hyatt Regency Dallas-Fort Worth.
"If you don't get that right (how and who), it's hard to get the rest of it right," Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said. "There are a lot of business elements, but generally speaking, you've got to get the competition aspects of it right for it to be 'right.' That's the biggest thing."
BCS executive director Bill Hancock said the selection committee would
consist of between 14-20 members, including at least one individual
representing each of the 10 FBS conferences.
Finding more than a dozen individuals interested won't be a problem. But finding individuals that are interested and qualified to be on the committee might be a tougher task.
The committee will resemble the NCAA men's basketball tournament's selection committee, except there will be a great deal more pressure and scrutiny on the football committee determining which four teams can compete for the national title.
ACC commissioner John Swofford was jokingly asked if the committee members might have to be in the witness protection program since college football fans have been known to be fanatical.
"Witness protection program: That's been said," Swofford said, laughing.
"There are a lot of great people out there that love the game, that will be able willing and qualified. We want people that know the game and understand the game, that have wisdom, integrity and respect. We're confident those people are out there."
The committee members could come from all walks of life, including former commissioners, former and current athletic directors and former coaches, Hancock said.
"We want experienced football purists, experts," Hancock said.
The selection committee will receive a "jury charge" from the commissioners. In ranking the teams, the committee will consider strength of schedule, where the games were played, conference championships and whether teams lost games because of injuries to key players.
In the playoff, the top four ranked teams -- as determined by the selection committee -- will meet in the semifinals. After those four teams are selected, the league champion or top available team from the Pac-12 and Big Ten will play in the Rose Bowl presented by Vizio, SEC and Big 12 teams in the Allstate Sugar Bowl and ACC in the Discover Orange Bowl.
The commissioners next meet April 23-25 in Pasadena, Calif.
At that time, they are expected to officially announce Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas -- the site of the AT&T Cotton Bowl -- as the site of the first title game on Jan. 12, 2015. ESPN previously reported Cowboys Stadium is the "prohibitive favorite" to host the national title game.
The BCS announced last month the Rose and Sugar Bowls will host college football's first national semifinals on Jan. 1, 2015. The Orange Bowl is also in the semifinal rotation.
The commissioners also likely will reveal in April the three other bowls that will host the semifinals -- sources have told ESPN they would be the Cotton, Tostitos Fiesta and Chick-fil-A bowls -- the name of the new playoff, and how the selection committee will be formed.
Under the 12-year deal, which begins after the 2014 regular season, the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl will be played on every non-Sunday Jan. 1, no matter whether they are hosting the national semifinals.
During the 12-year contract, the Rose and Sugar Bowls will host the semifinals four times. In the years they aren't hosting, the national semifinals would be moved from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, sources said.
The national semifinals will rotate through the six bowl games, setting up two playoff games and four major bowl games each season. The national title game will be bid out each year through a separate process similar to the Super Bowl.
The six games will include three "contract bowls" and three "host bowls." The spots in the contract bowls are reserved for teams that have deals with those bowls.
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LSU football coach Les Miles. (Associated Press)
Hobbs: With recruiting over, Miles' focus shifting to offense
Now that recruiting is mercifully over, Les Miles can get on with the task of fixing what is really the biggest problem with the LSU football team.
He’s got a whole new influx of talent coming in, straight off the Who’s Who’s list of high school hotshots, all of them no doubt fine gentlemen and scholars.
And that’s a good thing. You can’t have too many of those.
Just don’t get caught up in group hand-wringing sessions because it was still rated behind Alabama’s or signal alarms because, for this class, even Ole Miss may have edged ahead of them in this ranking or that.
Recruiting is important, no question, but ranking it is just not that exact a science for ESPN to spend Wednesday re-ranking teams hourly like it was the stock market going up and down.
At any rate, LSU will not lack for talent in the coming years.
Of course, the Tigers already had plenty of good players — even with a whole herd of them stampeding off to the NFL early.
What they really need is an offensive identity for all these studs to rally around.
Between breaking in a new quarterback and scrambling to mix-and-match an offensive line after a rash of early injuries, they had some excuses.
But, in effect, LSU spent the year with an awkward offense that never really looked like it knew what it wanted to be when it grew up.
It was an offense that gained 435 yards against national champion Alabama, the most the Tide gave up all season — yes, 17 more yards than wide-open Texas A&M got in beating the Tide the next week.
It was an offense that gained 406 yards against the second-best defense it faced, South Carolina.
So there was some talent there.
But the Tigers had more yards in both of those games than the same offense had against Towson State, an FCS school.
So there was a lot of chronic inconsistency there.
The offense also failed miserably in closing out two notable games, whether it was getting too conservative against Alabama or throwing caution to the wind against Clemson.
Something has to change.
Miles admitted as much even a few days after the Chick-fil-A Bowl when his lads managed 219 yards and had eight three-and-outs against a suspect Clemson defense that was more prone to giving up something in the 400 range.
He knows it.
The silliest reaction to the fans’ genuine concerns about the offense came just a little more than a week ago when his raise and contract extension came up for approval by the LSU Board of Supervisors.
Many fans saw it as an opportunity. Some, people of influence, even called Board members with a suggestion. Yes, they said, give him the raise, but use this carrot to give it to him ONLY if he agrees to go get a new offensive coordinator and find some better ball plays.
Money makes the monkey dance.
Think about that for a minute.
How ever little you think Miles knows about creative offense, it’s still 100 times more than you or me or your neighbor know about it.
If the Board members really thought they needed to be stepping in and making Miles’ football decisions for him, then they should not only have denied his raise, they should have fired him on the spot.
When you’re paying $4.3 million a year for something, it shouldn’t require much more of your concern or input than signing the check.
Either he’s you’re head coach — in charge of a very important wing of the university — or he’s not.
To its credit, the Board apparently resisted the urge to draw up a few ball plays in the dirt.
It’s the Board of Supervisors — not micro-managers.
So it’s up to Miles now to earn his check.
Miles is smarter than you think he is and he’s not nearly as stubborn as he gets credit for.
He knows what’s at stake and he’s not afraid to change, even if it means bruising a few feelings.
He’s done it before.
If it’s a change in the staff, it shouldn’t take much longer. Miles has never been much of a multi-tasker. While he’s recruiting, he recruits. When that’s done, he looks at his staff.
Of course, in the past LSU has just finished with up recruiting a coach or two short and then filled the spots afterward.
As of now, officially, Miles has no opening on his coaching staff.
Maybe that changes in the coming days. Already there are rumors that an old Miles friend, former Miami Dolphins head coach Cam Cameron, might be a logical choice after being fired late in the regular season by the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens.
But it’s touchy.
LSU’s offense has been, at best, hit and miss the past two years with Greg Studrawa as coordinator.
But Studrawa is too good of an offensive line coach to get rid of just because he was put in an awkward situation he didn’t ask for or create.
Quarterbacks coach Steve Kragthorpe was hired as coordinator two years ago, but that same summer was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Studrawa was made coordinator to lessen the strain on Kragthorpe.
But, really, if your quarterbacks coach is not the coordinator — or at least the play-caller — in effect you have co-coordinators. And that never seems to work out well.
LSU has done right by Kragthorpe for two years and, outwardly at least, he appears to be doing OK physically.
But — crass bottom-line alert — he’s either healthy enough to be the coordinator or he’s not.
Or maybe LSU just needs to do a lot of soul searching and take a new direction.
But they need something.
It’s now up to Miles to figure out what it is.
That’s why he’s making the big bucks.
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LSU signee Tashawn Bower shows an eye for business
By
Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on February 07, 2013
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Bower, a 6-feet-5, 241-pound four-star player, went with the classic hat trick used by many recruits but didn't pull on a generic LSU hat. He put on an LSU E.J. Ourso School of Business ball cap to go with his light blue Oxford shirt, striped tie and dark navy blue school sweater.
It seems during his recruiting process he hit it off as well with some of the business school professors as he did with the football coaching staff.
"Academically, I think they (LSU) have a great business school," Bower told mycentraljersey.com. "I had a really great meeting with the business professors there. They're all big followers of LSU football and all the LSU programs. And it's good to know that your professors understand your schedule. I know I'll have the support there."
"I was the academic host and got to speak to him and his mom directly," Sauley said in the release. "That's something that I've been doing since the Gerry DiNardo era.
"(Assistant Athletic Director for Football Operations) Sam (Nader) asked me to put together some college materials. So, I asked (Assistant Dean for Academic Programs) Ashley Junek, and she provided a college overview."
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Grading Every FBS Team's 2013 Recruiting Class
By (Featured Columnist) on February 6, 2013
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The LSU Tigers bring in a host of talented prospects year after
year, and this recruiting season is no different. This class may finish
as a Top Five unit once everything settles in the coming weeks.
The Tigers picked up a top secondary player in Tre’Davious White, who is one of the best cover corners in the country for 2013. LSU is not afraid to play young guys, and White may be the next in line.
Other players who should get a look early are Avery Johnson, Frank Herron and Kendall Beckwith.
This class is layered with talent, and keeping it all together until signing day was a huge task.
Grade: A
The Tigers picked up a top secondary player in Tre’Davious White, who is one of the best cover corners in the country for 2013. LSU is not afraid to play young guys, and White may be the next in line.
Other players who should get a look early are Avery Johnson, Frank Herron and Kendall Beckwith.
This class is layered with talent, and keeping it all together until signing day was a huge task.
Grade: A
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LSU Football - Geaux Tiger!!!
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| Times Picayune | Record 13 LSU Tigers invited to NFL Scouting Combine |
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Miles, staff logged lots of miles in recruiting
BATON ROUGE -- LSU's football signing class of 2013 tied the school record for the most signees from out of state, and, of more interest, it had the most from opposite ends of the mainland.Perhaps only George Clooney in "Up in the Air" logged more miles than LSU coach Les Miles. In all, 15 players were signed from out of state, tying the school record set in 2007 also by Miles and previously in 1988 by Mike Archer and in 1971 by Charles McClendon.
Of coach Archer's 15, though, 11 were from border state Texas. Miles signed no one from Texas, but he inked two from California and North Carolina and one from Illinois and New Jersey. When McClendon signed 15 from outside of Louisiana in 1971, scholarship limitations were significantly more lax as he had 40 in his class overall, and there were 10 from Texas. LSU tracks classes as far back as 1969.
It is likely that no LSU coach in history has gone more recruiting miles before he slept than Miles.
Nine states other than Louisiana were represented in all with three signees from Georgia and Florida and one each from Tennessee, Nebraska and Alabama in addition to the four mentioned above.
"Our coaches were on the road for tireless hours, I've got to tell you," Miles said after adding 19 players on national signing day Wednesday. He previously added six January enrollees for the 25 total. There were two others who originally signed in 2012, but did not academically qualify and will be counted back to '12.
"We land in Connecticut at 4 p.m. one day, do a high school, visit with a mom, catch a plane to New Jersey, finish with the prospect, the father and the grandparents, leave New Jersey at midnight, fly to Atlanta, drop an assistant coach and go from there to Baton Rouge," Miles said. "And those kinds of recruiting travels are made by assistant coaches that really put the school first. Our families allowed us again to put the school first. To those people, I just want to say thank you. That's the reason this recruiting class has assembled such a quality group of men." Read more...http://www.thetowntalk.
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