I’m supposed to be the franchise player, and we’re in here talking about practice?The people in charge told me to write about the glorified practices that are spring football.  Never mind all of the legitimate competition taking place in the NCAA conference tournaments, the NBA playoff race and the free agent signings in the NFL. What’s going to happen on the practice fields in the coming weeks means nothing because it can’t change the 8-5 record from last season nor can it be used as an indicator of future successes.Plus, I already know what’s going to happen from now until the April 18 spring game.I’ve pretty much got what’s going to go on throughout the next few weeks down to a science. It’s the same general themes every season.There’s going to be some mythical quarterback race LSU coach Les Miles is going to trump up because he thinks fans can’t realize he’s already made a decision and is paying everyone lip service.First we had “JaMarcus Russell vs. Matt Flynn” and the sequel in 2005 and ’06, then it was “Flynn vs. Ryan Perrilloux” in ’07, then came last year’s epic “Perrilloux vs. Baton Rouge Police Department.”Everyone knew the eventual winners of the races — except for maybe the most recent one. I bet there are thousands who wish Perrilloux vs. the police turned out differently, because the result was the fiasco that was rising sophomore quarterback Jarrett Lee running the offense for most of 2008.Let me save everyone some time.Rising sophomore Jordan Jefferson will beat out everyone else. It’s basic.Another standard storyline we’re sure to encounter is some relatively unused player making a big splash and fueling talk of him getting significant playing time in the fall but not ever living up to the hype.We should create some type of award for this — “The Richard Murphy Award for playing awesome when it doesn’t matter but never seeing the field in September award” That won’t fit on a trophy, but it’s OK, we’ll work on the name.I’m sure Murphy is a great football player, but if there’s another player who gets people more excited over practice, I haven’t found him.Maybe Murphy will get some playing time this season, and we can give the trophy to some other spring overachiever who fizzles in the fall.He can only hope — otherwise he’ll have himself a personal dynasty.The last storyline that we’ve encountered before and will encounter again this spring is the introduction of new coordinators and how people who’ve been in their system for a month are performing in it.This will be LSU’s third spring in five years where someone new was running the defense.People will want to know what’s going on with the players and how they’re adjusting to these new schemes and terms.We won’t know any concrete answer until LSU plays a decent team in the fall. But that doesn’t matter for the football junkies.They’ll yap about this for hours on end. They’re junkies after all. Yapping is what they do.People should thank me for this column, because I just saved everyone a bunch of time they would have wasted following these practices by predicting all the major storylines.Good thing, too. The Lakers and Spurs are playing tonight in a game that actually matters.——Contact Johanathan Brooks at [email protected]