WWJLDD
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Interesting question. I was never quite sure if offenses just figured out his schemes or if we just stopped having the personnel to run his type of defense. Probably a combination of the two. Anyways he's pretty much washed out of college football at this point. He was at Memphis, then New Mexico State and now he's coaching at some D3 level school in Texas according to wikipedia.
If you have two true lockdown corners you can leave on an island and you can get to the qb quickly, it would probably still work great, but people basically figured it out. People's initial tendency was to bring in blockers to help with all the blitzers, not realizing that just gave JLD more options as to how much pressure to bring and where to bring it from. I think the current spread offenses would really limit his D without having to have a great qb.
It got painfully predictable, especially for State fans. I remember at the 2002 Egg Bowl it was a 3rd and short play for UM. It looked like we were going to bring the house and knew that a little pass to a TE or WR would get a TD for UM. Sure enough, Eli just tosses it over to one of their receivers and they get a long TD.
And Rick Trickett rolled Booty away from the Prather blitz seems like every damn time in Baton Rouge in 2000. He certainly got too predictable.
Joe Lee would be great against drop back quarterbacks and horrible against the spread or mobile quarterbacks, just like he was when he was here. He used to say his great idea was that defense was playing 11 against 10, but the era of the mobile quarterback killed that. He never adapted.
He wouldn't wear socks.
Versus Texas in the Cotton Bowl JLD blitzed everyone 3 times and all 3 times they scored long touchdowns. Ricky Williams was the RB for Texas that year. Anyone else remember Ed Smith hitting the **** outta Ricky in the first snap of the day? There's a chance we make it back to the Cotton Bowl this year and Texas could be the opponent again. How awesome would it be to crush Ole Miss again and then beat Texas in the same year Texas destroys Ole Miss.
Versus Texas in the Cotton Bowl JLD blitzed everyone 3 times and all 3 times they scored long touchdowns. Ricky Williams was the RB for Texas that year. Anyone else remember Ed Smith hitting the **** outta Ricky in the first snap of the day? There's a chance we make it back to the Cotton Bowl this year and Texas could be the opponent again. How awesome would it be to crush Ole Miss again and then beat Texas in the same year Texas destroys Ole Miss.