After Les Miles managed to struggle twenty points a game with athletes like Leonard Fournette for a college football eternity, LSU ousted him, OC Cam Cameron, and much of the offensive staff. In Cameron's place LSU hired a young, diverse, and brilliant coach in Matt Canada. Canada spent time, among other stops, as the OC at NC State and, last year, Pittsburgh. I've seen some great analysis and cut ups of the offense. Last season the Panthers rolled out two back, two tight end I-form smash ball followed by five wide jet sweeps. Canada reminds me a lot of Chris Petersen from his time in Boise State and now in Washington- heavy formation variation, personnel groupings, series based play design and playcalling, and an emphasis on a lack of traditional offensive identity. Canada does a brilliant job of implementing a Rich Rodriguez, the "spread daddy's" Numbers, Angles, Grass principle and applying it to a different personnel grouping. I'll get more into it later, but to see some good examples check out @All22ChalkTalk on twitter, the site has some great clips of Pittsburgh's Clemson upset in a game were an outmatched Pitt offense scored 43 points on what was essentially a power read, shovel option based gameplan. Canada will utilize a gluttony of formation shifts and motion- I've seen a play where a slot receiver motioned into the backfield, back out, back in, and then outside again. I don't know if Canada can solve LSU's point problem, but if anyone can I'd put my money on him. His ability to isolate and take advantage of what will be an elite talent pool in Baton Rouge should scare the SEC for years to come.
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Michael SmithA life long 'Dawg, Michael has been born and raised spending each and every fall saturday eating, socializing, and watching the sport he was raised to love. Archives
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