Texas 2.0

It feels terrible. Miles has sucked the fun and enjoyment out of watching LSU football. And now we are the laughing stock of the sec in this moment. Losing a top tier d coach to replace him with a rivals position coach. Yikes

Good comparison and dead on accurate imo

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Posted by budlight34
The similarities between the two programs and Miles and mack Brown are eerie. Win a national title. Each play for another 4 years later. Both loss to Bama. Both programs start to decline. Both coaches have to replace assistants. Mack Brown made some bad hires. Now with this hire, Miles may have just sealed his own fate. Texas waited a year too long to cut ties with Mack. We may be going down that same road

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Recruiting fell off at Texas. That hasn't happened yet at LSU. In fact, last years class was outstanding.

Still, you are right. If this goes sour, you can't hang on too long.

Sad but true. I hope somebody wakes up and removes miles before it's an absolute rebuild to get back to being relevant in the championship picture.

Mack made good hires at the end. The problem was that he hired SEC style recruiters but didn't want to play by SEC rules to get them. He thought they would get by purely on contacts and ability but that doesn't cut it when the competition is playing by a whole other set of rules. Also didn't help that Mack took full control of offers and commits and he was a bad evaluator.

The similarities are there though. Both are CEO types not x and o types that the kids they get love but at a certain point they get too comfortable and think what won for them in the past will still win. They don't adjust their basic principles at all and in sports you can't be that way. You have to adjust to the playing field.

The situation at LSU is better than it was at Texas and for that we should be thankful. We are loaded with young talent and don't have powermongers that will overstep in the next hire. Texas was basically devoid of quality depth in talent and have too many chiefs involved in the hiring process. They go lucky to get Strong. We will get better and go back up quickly. Too much talent currently in the program and too much in the state to stay down.

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Both are CEO types not x and o types

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100% correct

Well, Chief left because he was fired with the rest of Fumler's staff.

I think the Fulmer comparisons are better. Had a few great years mixed in with a bunch of good years. Largest rival was going through it's greatest run in recent history, and hard to get past them.

Fulmer was fired after a trending decline from their best year (2001), like LSU not winning a title in its best year (2011). Both won a title and got way too comfortable.