Coach O is making headlines again this week, as the LSU Tigers are set to square off with the Alabama Crimson Tide in what could be a battle between potential playoff teams. I’m glad they aren’t billing it as the “game of the century” again, but yeah – the magnitude of this one is ginormous to use a technical term.
Ed Orgeron was recently in the news for chatting with Alabama QB Tua Tagovailoa at a high school football game featuring Tagovailoa’s younger brother, Taulia. Well, at a recent press conference (I think), Tagovailoa’s name came up and Coach O mentioned that they wanted to make Tua throw the ball. Like….in the sense that that is how they are going to beat Alabama….with…Tua throwing the ball…
I can’t find the direct source despite looking for a whopping 15 minutes. But, that isn’t going to stop me from writing about this ’cause journalism.
Ed Orgeron: “We’re gonna make Tua throw the ball.”
Literally every college football fan: pic.twitter.com/4cifHHXWwD
— Austin Smith (@Aus10Smithh) October 30, 2018
Ed Orgeron said, “We are Gonna force Tua to throw the ball”
My Reaction: pic.twitter.com/Mg8Uak26IN— Bradley Chaisson (@ChaissonBradley) October 29, 2018
Ed Orgeron: “We’re gonna make Tua throw the ball”
Anybody with any ounce of football knowledge at all: pic.twitter.com/kcLo87Dja1
— Will Elliott (@Will_Elliott22) October 29, 2018
People are calling him crazy, but I think this movie is pure GENIUS.
Think about the message he is sending to both his players and Alabama. The Tigers are hearing, “we want Alabama to play their best because we can beat ’em regardless.” Now, what Alabama is hearing is, “The savvy and relentless Coach O has figured out a way to beat us even with our quarterback scorching the Earth. WHAT ARE WE MISSING?”
Nick Saban and company are probably panicking as I type this…trying to figure out why in the world this crazy swamp man is fine with Tua throwing the ball. What could he have possibly seen to elicit such confidence? But, Orgeron has put the entire state of Alabama’s brain into a pretzel with this comment and no one knows how to adjust. No one knows how to prepare.
But, the math is simple…I, like Coach O, am a genius, and it makes sense. When Tua’s throwing the ball, the Tide score at a rapid pace. The Tigers can allow him to simply run wild and just control the clock when they have the ball.
So, for instance, a minute in, the Tide scores. 10 minutes later, the Tigers score. The Tide score in another minute, the Tigers take 18 minutes to score, and folks – we’ve got a tied ball game at the half. But, you start the third quarter with LSU taking 15 minutes to score, Alabama scores a minute later, and then BOOM – the Tigers have the final 14 minutes of the game to score and they win the game.
Brilliant.
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