Ed Orgeron was auditioning to become LSU’s head football coach and he devised an unusual prop: a book that featured a long list of everything he had done wrong in his career. A coach who was willing to confront all the ways this proud, football-rich school had erred turned out to be exactly what LSU needed. The Tigers had always played old-school, smash-mouth football, a style based on running the ball that was steeped in the program’s culture. And that was the problem. While offenses across the rest of the football universe...

Source: Wall Street Journal November 06, 2019 15:22 UTC