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  1. 12-04-2017, 05:00 PM #1
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    The same reason he couldn?t land one of those early jobs he shopped himself for or land any big name recruits we weren?t already their #1. His Yankee dick ?I invented football? attitude rubbed most people the wrong way. As much good as he did, he did as much that limited his ceiling.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RougeDawg View Post
    The same reason he couldn?t land one of those early jobs he shopped himself for or land any big name recruits we weren?t already their #1. His Yankee dick ?I invented football? attitude rubbed most people the wrong way. As much good as he did, he did as much that limited his ceiling.
    Yep. Dan's recruiting and his arrogant play the upperclassmen over the more talented underclassmen in certain cases is the main reason why he didn't win top 25 games at a clip that was more close to Jackie.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
    Yep. Dan's recruiting and his arrogant play the upperclassmen over the more talented underclassmen in certain cases is the main reason why he didn't win top 25 games at a clip that was more close to Jackie.
    This is true, but the main reason he lost big games is he's clueless on how to use a rb. People forget 4 of his last 6 years featured Holloway & Perkins. His 3 best teams featured Ballard in 2009, Jrob in 2014, Aeris in 2017. Even the games we lost in 2009, 2014, 2017 were when he went away from his stud RBs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by justwin View Post
    This is true, but the main reason he lost big games is he's clueless on how to use a rb. People forget 4 of his last 6 years featured Holloway & Perkins. His 3 best teams featured Ballard in 2009, Jrob in 2014, Aeris in 2017. Even the games we lost in 2009, 2014, 2017 were when he went away from his stud RBs.
    Exactly. And it was pretty obvious that he defaulted to the QB run- usually up the middle- any time he got into a stressful situation where he needed to make a big play.
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    Quote Originally Posted by justwin View Post
    This is true, but the main reason he lost big games is he's clueless on how to use a rb. People forget 4 of his last 6 years featured Holloway & Perkins. His 3 best teams featured Ballard in 2009, Jrob in 2014, Aeris in 2017. Even the games we lost in 2009, 2014, 2017 were when he went away from his stud RBs.
    Boobie was 2009. Vic was 2010.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TrapGame View Post
    Boobie was 2009. Vic was 2010.
    I think he was referring to the 2009 LSU game where Tyson Lee kept the ball instead of giving it to Boobie.
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    As much good as he did with the program, he always seemed to call the wrong offensive plays and not play to our strengths in crucial situations late in games against (top 25) teams. His record bears this out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawg50 View Post
    As much good as he did with the program, he always seemed to call the wrong offensive plays and not play to our strengths in crucial situations late in games against (top 25) teams. His record bears this out.
    The best things he did in my opinion was get us to where we went to bowl games every year and he limited the amount of embarrassing losses we had. I can tolerate one South Alabama loss every 10 years.
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