September 28, 2017
REVENGE WEEK
Denham Springs HS Football faces Livingston Parish Rival Live Oak HS and you can catch all of the action on Family Radio, 91.9 FM, on the net at JonFineProductions.com and on Tune In Radio App. See more info below.
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Assistant Basketball Coach and Head Swimming Coach at Central High
Last week I wrote through the lens of myself, the LSU football fan. Let me write this week as a coach.
Do you deal with young, inexperienced kids at your job? If so, you understand what the LSU football coaches are going through right now. One play, Drake Davis looks like the next coming of Odell Beckham. On the next, he moves out of the spot where he settles against zone coverage causing an interception.
On defense, Aranda dials up the perfect blitz to get a defender unblocked in the quarterback’s face, but alas, the freshman doesn’t break down and misses the tackle.
After the loss to Mississippi State, what did you expect? Some of the response to LSU’s win gets under my skin. Ugly win? No, it was a win after a terrible loss. And those are great wins! With all these inexperienced players seeing significant playing time, and injuries that have hurt the depth of the team, forget style points. LSU needs to take a page from the new master of winning ugly, Jim McElwain, and borrow from Al Davis. “Just Win Baby!”
On a quick side note, Florida coaches need to play the lottery the way they are rolling. One week they win on a Hail Mary and the next they win thanks to two gift touchdowns when Kentucky leaves a single receiver COMPLETELY uncovered. Amazing!
Back to LSU, credit the coaches this week. The penalties were almost non existent. The offense was not consistent, but made the plays when needed and scored plenty of points to get the job done. The defense had their hands on fumbles and interception attempts, yet dropped all but one. Getting Myles Brennan in the game is vital for the future of this program, and that took courage.
The point is that each week, something new and ugly is going to crop up with this group. Hopefully, this group will mature by the end of the year, but don’t expect it before the leaves change.
This week, I thought Tiger defenders were in position most of the time, but the tackling and play making was completely lacking. On offense, LSU has enough trouble blocking when they attempt to block a player. Too often, though, LSU has missed assignments and allow defensive players to run free unblocked.
The issues are being addressed, and not just in theory. The freshmen at right guard were replaced with Adrian Magee. Josh Growden was replaced with Von Rosenberg. Coach Orgeron is taking responsibility for DJ Chark letting punts hit the ground. It is unfair to expect not to have mistakes. It is fair to expect mistakes to be addressed and corrected and we can see that happening.
The coaches will work hard to fix those problems this week, but that is why I asked if you have had dealing with young, inexperienced kids? If you do, then you understand it is like a game of whack-a-mole. Once you focus time and correct once area, another problem area jumps up. Every once in awhile, the same mistake that has been addressed with show its ugly face again. It happens with youth.
Of course, LSU wasn’t supposed to have to rely on this much youth. A few veterans were supposed to lead the offense and defense so some of those problem areas would be masked. So far that hasn’t happened, partly because it seems like all the injuries right now have been to the few veterans LSU was counting on to lead the team like Guice, Key, Paris, Battle, Lawrence, Alexander.
I know it looks ugly right now Tiger fans, and I advise you to not expect it to be pretty this year. There is hope though. LSU has one more week to develop against an inferior opponent. I think it is obvious that Canada hasn’t quite figured out where this offense can hang its hat, but you have to appreciate his willingness to tinker. If LSU can avoid punters that put LSU within its own 5 yard line 4 times a game, it would make life easier as well.
On defense, it was good to see Coach Aranda change sub packages so the defense doesn’t require as many healthy defensive lineman. I also appreciate Coach Orgeron admitting that the Tigers need to substitute earlier in the game to keep players fresh. The defensive definitely wore down.
While the Tigers didn’t impress many people, the response to the Saints win has been over the top in the positive direction. The truth is the Saints caught a number of breaks this week. The injuries to the Panthers on offense helped the Saints to a big win. Still, the Saints deserve some credit.
I was one week away for writing in frustrated wonder why the Saints were refusing to use Ted Ginn. I guess they were saving it for his old team. Brees still can’t seem to quite get on the same page with Ginn in the passing game, but reverses and screens with Ginn should be a staple of this offense each week.
This week also gives some hope that there IS a formula to success for the Saints. On defense, keep the ball in front. Don’t bust coverages every third pass. Keep the other team out the end zone every once in awhile, and let the offense roll. Oh, and just 1-2 forced turnovers a game would be like pulling two chocolate chip cookies out the bag when you just reached in for one.
Snead is back this week. Armstead should be back after the bye, and this offense should back into one of the best in the league. Also, you can see the difference between playing with a lead and playing hopelessly from behind knowing that the defense cannot stop the other team.
The Vikings rolled the Bucs at home with their backup quarterback. We know the Patriots are the Patriots. So, the first two weeks don’t look as bad, IF the Saints can get to.500 this week.
Warning, though, as the past couple of years the Saints have played this trick on us. They look terrible to start the year, give a glimmer of hope, and then play awful against an inferior team when they get a chance to even the record. As a result, I would advise all Saints fans to stay at Defcon 4.
HEY REF
As Lt. Joe Kenda would say “My, My, My”! Seems Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino is almost out the door and out of a job. The OFFICIAL report says that the university has put Pitino on unpaid administrative leave after the FBI alleged in a criminal complaint that some so called coaches within the basketball program participated in a scheme to pay recruit’s families.
There’s no doubting this is happening not only at Louisville but its going on at EVERY UNIVERSITY that recruits players for any and all sports. Let me remind everyone right up front that there was just such a case when a certain quarterback named, oh, let me think of his name… It was uh, uh, uh CAM NEWTON from Auburn University. That little misunderstanding in which it was proved that Cam’s father, CECIL NEWTON and ex-Mississippi State player Kenny Rogers sought between $120K-$180K to get Cam to play for the Bulldogs when he finished playing junior college but DIDN’T ASK ANT OTHER SCHOOL FOR MONEY.
Now if you buy that then you must still believe the moon is made out of cheese. That story is just so stupid and for them to think and testify they didn’t ask money from Auburn, well you can get four when adding two and two, can’t you? Somewhere I remember the story coming out that Auburn did pay Cam’s father an amount close to the $180,000.00 figure and bought Cam a car with the money. The NCAA suspended that investigation and conveniently put it “on hold” while Cam directed Auburn to the National Title and a Heisman Trophy for the quarterback. The case was reopened AFTER Cam was drafted by the NFL’s Carolina Panthers which the NCAA then admitted since he was no longer playing for an NCAA team and his father’s name was on the check then there was no basis to prove that Cam knew or benefited from that little oops…
So, why now all of a sudden does this “SHOCK” you? There isn’t a single school that doesn’t do something illegal while trying to get the athletes they want. Pure and simple no body under the sun can throw a stone because nobody has a clean slate. There BILLIONS of dollars at stake for just the football industry under the control of the NCAA. The only reason they (NCAA) keeps doing this ridiculous thing of investigating certain schools is they want to portray some sort of ethics being adhered to under their command.
The NCAA is a joke when the subject is fair play, honesty and doing things above board. They rule their world with an iron fist while the very people responsible for refusing to pay the players such as NCAA President Mark Emmert. Emmert rakes in more than $8 MILLION a year and we haven’t even factored in a single benefit to that number. He can make his case for students getting a “FREE” education, etc. but we all know that’s B. S.! The only reason Emmert and his fellow henchmen don’t want to pay the players is so they can keep as much of the pie for themselves. Coaches have hit the mother lode too with multi-million dollar contracts. Assistant coaches are just the latest to score more than a million bucks in a single season.
Again, this writer has since almost the dawn of time supported paying all the players in every sport. It’s on their backs that those millions of dollars are generated. There isn’t a program that point a finger at Louisville because if they did then they’d also prove they are in fact thieves and as much a hypocrite as those now playing in the NFL.
So, please nobody start saying they knew Pitino was doing something illegal because you’d be unable to find a single program in today’s money hungry, money grubbing world obedient to the NCAA that can wear white to the dance.
Till next week
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