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golfnut69 · Mon May 04, 2020 8:14 am

https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... joe-burrow

Wave755 · Mon May 04, 2020 7:25 pm

golfnut69 wrote: ↑Mon May 04, 2020 8:14 am https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... joe-burrow

And just think, at his T-Club introduction in January, 2007 at the Queen and Crescent Hotel on Camp Street, "Buffet" Bob Toledo told us, "the spread was dead."

And, oh by the way, Urban Meyer then coaching Florida won the 2007 BCS National Championship running, you guessed it, the spread.

So, who else but "Buffet" Bob?

Tue May 05, 2020 6:09 am

Not defending Bob but he played to his strength Matt Forte.
LSU in 2019 was just so loaded with talent. Look at the NFL daft. They killed it. Burrow had a phenomenal year to go along with being able to toss to the best WR’s in the country.
The spread only goes as far as your QB. LSU this coming year (should it be played) with Miles Brennan back there will have a big drop off from Burrow. They also lost their “Rich Rod” to the the NFL. So the play calling may also drop off.

golfnut69 · Tue May 05, 2020 6:39 am

tpstulane wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 6:09 am Not defending Bob but he played to his strength Matt Forte.
LSU in 2019 was just so loaded with talent. Look at the NFL daft. They killed it. Burrow had a phenomenal year to go along with being able to toss to the best WR’s in the country.
The spread only goes as far as your QB. LSU this coming year (should it be played) with Miles Brennan back there will have a big drop off from Burrow. They also lost their “Rich Rod” to the the NFL. So the play calling may also drop off.

I may be mistaken, but I think Rich Rod and Hal Mumme are lookin' for jobs

golfnut69 · Tue May 05, 2020 12:39 pm

Tulane makes the top 25 of all time
https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... revolution

Wave755 · Tue May 05, 2020 3:28 pm

tpstulane wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 6:09 am Not defending Bob but he played to his strength Matt Forte.
LSU in 2019 was just so loaded with talent. Look at the NFL daft. They killed it. Burrow had a phenomenal year to go along with being able to toss to the best WR’s in the country.
The spread only goes as far as your QB. LSU this coming year (should it be played) with Miles Brennan back there will have a big drop off from Burrow. They also lost their “Rich Rod” to the the NFL. So the play calling may also drop off.

True, at the T-Club meeting “Buffet” Bob told us he was going to “run Matt Forte right at people.” And, he said the best offense for the college game was the West Coast Offense and that he, Bill Walsh and others had “invented” the WCO. He further said the Spread had been “solved” by the defensive coordinators and wouldn’t work anymore. We told “Buffet” Bob running Forte right at people might work against Rice but no one else.

After that first meeting I knew we were in trouble for the “Buffet” Bob Toledo hire. And, he came across for the meeting as an “arrogant punk.”

golfnut69 · Tue May 05, 2020 4:06 pm

I met Buffet at a Tulane fund raising Golf Tournament..I was not impressed

Bicoastalwave · Tue May 05, 2020 5:26 pm

Hypothetical: Willie break through with 9-10 wins this season and departs. Do we revisit the past and make amends for past failures and approach RR ? This is usually an extremely poor strategy (like going after a past high school/college lost love 10 years later).

winwave · Tue May 05, 2020 5:30 pm

If it happens after this season Hall would be number 1 on the list. If he took another job instead then it wouldn't hurt to consider RR. Mack Brown is off to a good start in his return to UNC.

golfnut69 · Tue May 05, 2020 5:33 pm

Bicoastalwave wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 5:26 pm Hypothetical: Willie break through with 9-10 wins this season and departs. Do we revisit the past and make amends for past failures and approach RR ? This is usually an extremely poor strategy (like going after a past high school/college lost love 10 years later).

I would love to see 9 wins...I think there are 7 winnable games...WF has an "age issue' to deal with, most schools want 'young blood coaches"...The OC seems to be heir to the Tulane throne, and he may employ RR as OC !..

HoustonWave · Wed May 13, 2020 5:10 pm

If there is a season this fall, it will likely be weird, if not chaotic. It's hard to imagine that many schools would flush their coaches after such a season. I doubt they'll be too many openings after the 2020 season, in whatever form it occurs.

ajcalhoun · Wed May 13, 2020 5:16 pm

HoustonWave wrote: ↑Wed May 13, 2020 5:10 pm If their is a season this fall, it will likely be weird, if not chaotic. It's hard to imagine that many schools would flush their coaches after such a season. I doubt they'll be too many openings after the 2020 season, in whatever form it occurs.

I agree with this. Everybody is in a money crunch right now and changing coaches is expensive.

winwave · Wed May 13, 2020 5:45 pm

HoustonWave wrote: ↑Wed May 13, 2020 5:10 pm If there is a season this fall, it will likely be weird, if not chaotic. It's hard to imagine that many schools would flush their coaches after such a season. I doubt they'll be too many openings after the 2020 season, in whatever form it occurs.

Good point.

wave97 · Wed May 13, 2020 7:16 pm

The air raid and the spread (aka rpo) are very different offenses. Ju

Wave755 · Wed May 13, 2020 9:37 pm

Bicoastalwave wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 5:26 pm Hypothetical: Willie break through with 9-10 wins this season and departs. Do we revisit the past and make amends for past failures and approach RR ? This is usually an extremely poor strategy (like going after a past high school/college lost love 10 years later).

+1, Will Hall is the Lindy Infante (1980) or RichRod (1998) of today. Sadly, the Great Lindy Infante died in 2015 and our time for hiring RR was 22 years ago. Time to “let it be” for all the things that might have been for a RR hire.

And instead, Will Hall is “now.”