Houston Nutt vs. Les Miles

I posted this on a thread that's pretty inactive right now on the rant, but it probably belongs here anyway.


FEAR THE HAT

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Miles 2-1 against Nutt. Nutt's record against SEC teams around 50%. Nutt should be fired this year

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(will edit when I get back)


This isn't supposed to be about Nutt. I was speaking of this:

a game, with all its many, many situations--situations that tend to best reveal the qualities of a coach

a rivalry, with its own perennial stakes........

and there's the greatest of them all, an opportunity-- never too grand and all too attainable at that very moment--to secure a final home win against an inferior group of players, and to ride the senior leadership and the aura of destiny (common among championship teams on their final stretches, and known especially well to an LSU team from 2003) straight through our easiest path in Atlanta to a National Championship game which would likely have been one of the easier games this year.

All this at stake.

Let's not forget 2006, while Arkansas was locked into the SECCG, we were fired up, playing like a team with nothing to lose, but Arkansas would have beaten us if they had more talent, no? It was closer than it should have been, because Nutt had his inferior team playing like a team who wanted to finish near the top. It didnt work out for him that his last two games coming in were the two best teams in the country, (yes, 2 loss us the best, then florida --who finished the season how?)

Miles, to his credit, is very good at coaching a team with nothing to lose (Ask Bob Stoops), but sadly that's no good for us if we hope to defy convention and maintain a dynasty over an extended period of time. But that's what you do when you have nothing to lose. You play that way. As a top-tier coach who expects from his career a national championship, ESPECIALLY one with the benefit of talent beyond overall comparison, Les is supposed to know by now how to coach a team when it's on top. It's as if we forgot where we came from, having abandoned the methods that build the foundation of our success. From game-planning to play calling to roster selection, our coaches have flat out held in check the would-be limitless potential of this football team--In my humble opinion-- either by ineptitude or by a diversion of focus to personal progress (MIchigan? Nebraska?). Who cares? It doesn;t matter. Both reasons have the same end: leaving the NC on the table for Ohio State to take while we pretend to be wholly satisfied by a Sugar bowl victory against hawaii.

So yes, houston nutt has not done well overall against miles, nor has he done as well as miles has against the SEC, but he's not coaching LSU. If he were, he'd at least use his best weapons the most often, and that alone would likely be enough to get by UK and ARK, and probably widen the gap in many of the other games. And no, I am not saying this demonstrates that Nutt is a great coach; it just provides that les miles is not.

Yeah, so it's over. I'ts gone forever. Get over it. Move on. Whatever....i'm not stuck on our squandered opportunity.
This rant was inspired by next time.

Reality:
No program stays on top for too many years in a row. Hell, talent will come stll, and perhaps some year soon we'll have another shot. I just don't want les to take it.
The problem is this:
Michigan officials, who want the best for their football team as I do mine, are all looking at and evaluating les miles without the LSU goggles on. They probably don't want him, which means Miami is going to kick our asses soon in the peach bowl and it will start the decline of one-day-to-return-again LSU Football Supremacy, next time under a new gun.

I can't wait.....and I'm not going to stop showing up or stop cheering if we step back for a while.