re: After reading comments in the post about Miles' ranking in the SEC...

Spurrier as long as we could have Chavis as D-Coordinator

Spurrier is great, and has a great press conference. So many great lines come out of his press conferences. Such as, "I love playing Georgia early in the sason because they always have two or three of their best players suspended."

Or against Tennessee, "Oh heck, I have coached more games at Vol Stadium that their last three coaches."

I love Miles and think Spurrier is a huge dick*, but Spurrier in his prime was a better strategist and game day coach. He's too lazy/arrogant to recruit well (I sympathize, as I hate the way recruiting works in CFB), but he was a hell of a coach.


*I know that some of you believe that a 102-year- old man acting like a 28-year-old aging frat douche is cute, but he's pretty terrible.

What Spurrier did at Florida when he was winning would not work in the SEC today. He played a wide open offense, but not as much defense. He has changed his ways somewhat at Carolina, and now has a more balanced team. But I agree, he has not beaten Miles yet.

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I have no reason to believe Spurrier would beat Saban with an LSU team.

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he blew them out of the water with a USCe squad.

ESPN recruits for bama nationally hAted Bama is TV money in ESPN pockets

Miles by far !

This is the nuttiest thread I have seen in a long time. It seems folks want to compare Miles now to the Spurrier of 10-15 years ago.
Spurrier had a great run at Florida...innovative offense...good defense...great players...that was then, this is now. Steve Spurrier is a shell of his former self now. He's not even running the same offense he ran at Florida. He's at a school that has a harder chance of winning a NC than other SEC schools, including LSU. There's only so much blood he can get out of the Gamecock turnip. Hell, he can't even get one of the top players in the country to not take games off during the kid's last season of college football that would surely have made him the top pick in the draft and possibly win the Heisman Trophy as a defensive player. (Spurrier has lost control of his superstars) And hasn't Miles beat him head up twice ?
Saban is Saban...certainly the best in college football today, but even then, Miles has had some success against him.
Let Miles coach, for God's sake. He on the cusp of assembling possibably one of the best recruiting classes in college football history. As I write this, one of Saban's prized recruits from Louisiana has decommitted to reassess his decision. Who knows, he may come here and bring somebody with him !
For years, all we heard was that Bear Bryant said "if he had LSU's second string, he could win an NC every year", but has anyone actually found the quote and when/where he said that?
For some strange reason, I believe Miles has a few more championships in him here at LSU. Our competition for the SEC west may be Auburn or Ole Miss instead of Bama (I hope so).
All I'm saying is if you are going to compare Miles to other coaches, compare him to current coaches and their current performance, not what they did 10-15 years ago.

Didnt Saban stringing us along cost us a shot at Spurrier and like 2 others? Miles was a 'get somebody in here now to keep recruits' guy. Kinda the best of what was left over I thought. I also thought this was one of the reasons for the bad feelings.