re: LSU faithful- defend our coach! (open letter)

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You are an idiot. The media could give a rat's arse about Less defending LSU.

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I recall lots of instances where that was exactly the case. Back when the glorious Threepeat was unfolding for USC, Brent Musberger was making direct statements to Les Miles (including his name in the statement) during... the Cal-Tenn game. Directly referring to Miles quotes and saying 'what do you think now'. Musberger also acted insulted and offended in the booth in the Virginia Tech game when the other guy stated LSU looked like the best team in the country. You'd have thought Brent was gonna cry, or fight. The Threepeat nonsense got plenty of play on ABC and ESPN. Les blatantly refuted them, and then proceeded to win the BCS.
Herbstreit announcing Miles going to Michigan was pretty much given with the sense of "of course he will, why would he stay at LSU?". If you don't find that question- why stay at LSU when you can go to Michigan- insulting, then I dunno; Les sure took umbrage with it.
07 in the pregame there was still conversations BY THE GUYS AT THE DESK about how the Rose (USC beating Illinois) had the true, best team.

Someone asked whether I got the response I sought with this, and yeah- some people do get it. "Support" doesn't mean go rallying around with a cup to contribute to his next raise, or even retain him at the end of the season if that is how strongly you feel we need to change.

"Support" means to see and react to the bullshite from official media wanting to bring Les (AND LSU) down to pump themselves up.

Once again I will trot out Virginia Tech, who (except for 2 seasons under M Vick) has been basically a carbon copy of this LSU team. No offense, often a 2 qb system of errors, good special teams and defense. I DON'T CARE what VT's fans think of Frank Beamer amongst themselves, that's irrelevant. What is relevant is that ESPN has never mocked or ridiculed Beamer for that lack of offense (hey- why haven't there been snide remarks on how Beamer must have snuck into the locker room here? just an example), and were that to happen, the Hokies would be loud and proud in their outrage. Beamer has more time there than both Miles AND Saban, never had the success Miles had with different offenses (you can mention Vick and I can say JaMarcus, but I say Flynn 07 and you have ... nothing), and no BCS title. Watch the next time VT is covered, if any mention of Beamer is made, it's respectful to the man. No open questioning of whether he has a thought process going on. Certainly no mention of the bullshite scheduling he occasionally does (see 2002, LSU season opener), and how other coaches (see 2002, Saban) considered him a prick.

Then consider Oklahoma and Stoops. Surely the guy who lost to Boise St in the Fiesta, whose team dropped last year as hard as we did in 08, but following a loss-not a win- in the BCS game, who opened last season with a loss at home to BYU and has the same record this year as we do, this Stoops guy is a clown too? Sure, losses to Nebraska and Texas are ok nationally (and then why not Bama, Fla, or Auburn last week.. but I digress), but you still have plenty left to attack. No one nationally, even those whining about Boise being ranked so high, tear into Stoops with the relish we see towards Miles. It's right there on his resume, though "well, it's easy to beat Oklahoma as long as Stoops is there. Just throw a Mountain West team on the field and it's done". That would garner a big from the Sooners.

Iowa's Kirk Ferentz is a genius, up there with Saban as wonder-boys. Never a demeaning comment, always marveling at how well-coached his teams are. They don't make mistakes. He's 86-56 at Iowa, 51-39 in conference. Some genius; I guess they looked well-coached in all of those losses.

People, just support the team and program if you consider yourselves LSU fans. Bitch at Les all you like among ourselves, but don't go letting ESPN etc take potshots at our coach when he's 7-1, without taking other, less successful coaches to task too.