LSU’s new offensive coordinator went on a hilarious rant about newspapers and social media

Hello, I would like you all to meet my new favorite coach in college football, and his name is Steve Ensminger. On Thursday, he was formally introduced as the LSU’s new offensive coordinator, being elevated from his role as the tight ends coach to replace Matt Canada. During his first presser, Ensminger was asked about reading things in the media, and he had the most glorious response ever:

“I had a guy call me last night; he said ‘Did you read this in the paper?’ I said, ‘Hell no, I ain’t read the papers in 20 years.’ I don’t read Twitter. You know, I’ve seen a statement by Booger [McFarland] I think it said ‘Coaches are full of bull, they do read the papers.’ I don’t read the damn paper, I don’t read Twitter, I don’t go on Facebook. You know what, and I tell my family ‘stay off of it.’ Because you know what, all I can do is what I can do. I can’t let any outside influence say ‘Hey, well you aren’t good enough, or you can’t do this.’ Bullshit — I’ll do it.”

This is incredible, and from now on “Bullshit, I’ll do it!” is going to be my new response to anything tbh.

Ensminger has been on LSU’s staff since 2010, and he called the plays for the Tigers last season for the last eight games of the season. He’s not exactly one of the big-name hires, but as And The Valley Shook points out, his accolades make him qualified for the job:

Yes, Ensminger was far from a hot, or even a lukewarm, name.

His last full-time coordinator job was at Clemson in 1998. He worked at Auburn in a co-coordinators position with Hugh Nall in 2003, and later took over in an interim role for Tony Franklin in 2008. None of these stints produced results of any note.

However, his most recent stint with the Tigers yielded unqualified results: Over the final eight games of the 2016 season that Ensminger served as interim OC in place of Cam Cameron, LSU’s offense:

-increased scoring from 21 points per game to 32 — scoring 38 or more in five of the eight games Ensminger called

-increased yards per play from 5.7 to 7.1

-set a school record for total offense in a conference game (634 yards vs. Missouri)

-set two different individual school rushing records (Leonard Fournette vs. Ole Miss and Derrius Guice vs. Texas A&M).

The reason this holds value is precisely that it doesn’t sit in a vacuum. Whether the offense should have been that good or not, 2016 LSU football team wasn’t going to put up those numbers under Cam Cameron. They weren’t even going to come close.

One thing’s for sure — regardless what’s written or said about him, he sure as hell won’t be reading any of it. Gotta love the honestly and candor here, and best of luck to him in his new role in Baton Rouge.