Gary Crowton and LSU

[cougjunkie]

Originally Posted by RockyBalboa

Good coach, but terrible manager/delegator. In order to succeed as a head coach a coach has to be good at both. I mean when you've got assistant coaches going up to apologize to Curtis Browns parents after that UNLV debacle, the one where Beck threw 67 times, and Curtis had ONLY 8 carries while averaging over 12 yards a pop.

Some could argue that was a ingrate assistant, but in reality that's a microcosm of Crowtons stubborn refusal to allow his assistants more input into the gameplans and being stubborn at acknowledging when something that isn't working ACTUALLY isn't working. I believe Crowton is a solid guy, a good OC, but a bad HC and Manager. I feel for him down at LSU, cause he's gonna get eaten alive.

the UNLV game is the one where i was sitting on row 1. Jake Kuresa came off the field yelling

"Why arent we running the F***ing ball!"
Grimes walked up to him and said:
"i want to the run the ball too, but its not my call."

Thats when i knew it was over for GC.

[TheSizzle36]

Originally Posted by cougjunkie

the UNLV game is the one where i was sitting on row 1. Jake Kuresa came off the field yelling

"Why arent we running the F***ing ball!"
Grimes walked up to him and said:
"i want to the run the ball too, but its not my call."

Thats when i knew it was over for GC.

The UNLV game was, IMO, the low point for Crowton on the field at BYU.

That game was a disgrace. I haven't seen a Cougar team play worse than that game. It was after that game that I was sure Crowton would be gone, unless they somehow beat Utah.