Bowden Solution

I keep hearing people say that we should keep Miles and hire a new OC while others say those people are idiots because that's been done many times already and didn't work. I believe they're both right. Here's what I think would be the best solution although it won't happen since the train appears to have left the station.

Let's call it the Bobby Bowden option. During his last years, Bowden was the face of the program, recruited, and managed the overall team at a very high level. He did not touch either the offense or the defense. I'm sure many will recall he didn't even wear a headset during games and even did an interview during the 3rd quarter of the National Championship game against Vick and VT.

This is what should have happened here. Miles is a great representative of LSU and a very good recruiter. The man deserved to go out with respect and the way other great coaches have left their schools. We should have told him that he could stay on as coach but he would need to hire a new OC and he was not allowed to touch the offense of defense. Tell him he needed to stay the hell out of the room when they're putting the game plan together. Maybe he could coach special teams to give him something to do. Obviously there's a need there. I would even go so far as to take away his headphones during the game. You could still let him wear them, but disconnect them. If he didn't comply and we didn't see a major change, then you could fire him.

This has been done before and worked and I think it would have worked here. There's no doubt that a change needs to be made but our chances of success are much better with Miles and a completely independent hot shot OC. The alternative is trying to be the only program to ever have success immediately after firing a coach that has won over 75% of his games. Hopefully we'll be the first.