Quote Originally Posted by Dawg61 View Post
Purpose of the rotation for the easy games is to keep all the starters fresh for the tough games. When you rotate them all you keep all of them at the same amount of rest. Plus it's just easier to ensure they get their rest this way. Take them out super early and you guarantee that they will be rested for LSU. Force the team to step up and get it done on top of being rewarded later with extra rest. The constant rotating was and is smart imo. Mullen deserves more kudos here than he's getting for having the balls to stick to his plan even when a whole bunch of you were crying like little girls about it. You sure loved having JRob and Dak running wild on Saturday and our defense beating the piss out of LSU. Understand that doesn't happen without rested 1's.
My comment about the offensive subbing has to do with our 2nd string center and line being out there when we thought the game was over, and it turns out it wasn't. If the purpose of subbing the 1st string offense in early games was to make sure they weren't too tired to play in the 4th game of the year, then I guess it worked, although that's pretty troubling. But if the purpose of playing the 2nd string offense so much was so that we wouldn't completely go backwards when we put them in a real game situation, then I give them a grade of F-.