The LSU Tigers completed the regular season with a won-loss record of 9 - 3. The exact same record as the 2017 Tiger team. It was coach Orgeron's second full year as head coach. Before the 2018 season began, this writer's commentary cautioned that Tiger fans should take a wait and see attitude as to how the team would respond and not make any rush to judgement call.
Brody Miller, sports journalist for the Times Picayune in a 12/2 report said LSU surpassed expectations and gave several reasons why which makes no sense to this writer. The fact is LSU still lacks a consistent offense and poor offensive game planning. The Tigers are also behind in executing the fundamentals of the game and lacks a winning attitude. Alabama is still the team that LSU makes very little progress against because LSU is outcoached.
This season LSU beat Georgia, Auburn, Arkansas and Ole Miss and lost to Texas A&M, yet all those teams played Alabama and scored more points against them than LSU did. Auburn scored 21 points, Georgia scored 35 points, Arkansas scored 31 points, Ole Miss scored 7 points and Texas A&M scored 23 points. LSU was shut out by Alabama. Those teams do not have better offensive players than LSU so why can they move the ball against Alabama much better that LSU can? The answer is coaching.
This writer is also on record who thought LSU should have hired a head coach with a proven record as a winner after Miles was fired. And now, after two and half years as LSU's head coach, school is still out on coach Orgeron. Jimbo Fisher, who is in his very first year as head coach at Texas A&M defeated LSU the last game of the season. Coach Orgeron said after the game LSU should have won the game in regulation. This writer believes that statement tells a story.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
