re: Confused and concerned about Miles

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being very thankful that we got some lucky breaks (like getting into the BCS national championship game with two losses

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Someone had to get in. LSU was the other best team despite having two losses. It was a chaotic season and anyone that got into the game would have had some "luck" in getting there.

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And, he seems to do a decent job recruiting.

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Stupid much?

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And,for the record, this isn't about Nick Saban. Yes, he's a great coach and has turned Bama around. But, Saban is gone.

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Are you ignorant of Saban's ugly wins and losses to poor teams? Does that somehow escape your piss-poor analysis of Miles?

+100

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We weren't an elite team until Miles got here and led us there. Saban did well for what he did but it took Miles to get us the rest of the way.

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Boom Shakalaka!!!! Nailed it sir!

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I'm still weeble-wobbling concerning Miles. Great record here from the start. But in 07, we were ranked #1 twice during the season and choked both times. In the last game of the season against Arkansas with a national championship staring us in the face (with an SEC championship win), we had no way to stop McFadden and the unranked (if I remember correctly) Razorbacks in our house. The defense in the latter part of that season under Miles/Pelini really started to fall off. 4th and 10 for Arkansas in OT, and we drop back for about 6 seconds until Casey Dick can find someone open and keep the game going. We were just fortunate that 2 other teams ranked in front of us lost, or Miles wouldn't have that championship. He didn't have the team focused enough going in to that game. -- Didn't care for him much at that point.

"Damn strong team" statement before SEC championship -- got me back on his side pretty damn strong.

08 season looked like everything fell apart. -- Started to question Miles again. What happened to "LSU doesn't rebuild, they reload"? We do reload every year with 4 and 5 star athletes across the board, so why wasn't the gun firing? Co defensive coordinators? Miles idea to promote Miles buddies. Rookie quarterback? Alabama has a rookie QB and rookie RB this year, don't they? If they go 10-2 or 11-1 this year, that'll be a little better than us last year at 3-5 in conference.

This year is a big year for Miles. No more of that "whose recruits" stuff. They're Miles. Jefferson has experience and Jarrett Lee has experience. Chavis has been doing his thing a long time and SHOULD know by now how he can make this defense stellar quickly. I hope 3rd and Chavis doesn't prove to be the case all year.

With all this said, I AM NOT A NEGATIGER. I love LSU and I'm just concerned after the game against Washington. I think Miles is a classy guy, and I think he loves LSU. I know it's just the first game, but I think we all are ready to see a ferocious defense, a very capable offense, and a team that will vie for a championship again.

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Strong post TigerTicker.

My biggest (only?) complaint with Les is he has no vision of dominance on defense.

Unless I misread what Carl wrote earlier, Les basically directed Mallory-Peveto to continue with Pelini's approach (even when they would've done things differently). IOW, Les was ok with Pelini even though as you mentioned we were so mediocre on D down the stretch in '07.

What we saw last week against UW was vintage John Chavis - fully consistent with his track record at Tenn. No one should've been surprised.

I think our D will get better. If they can hold our opponents under 30 pts I think our O can be good enough to win every game.

If Les would only demand dominance on D I wouldn't trade him for ten Carroll's, Saban's, Meyer's put together.

ATR,

I think we are the only ones still conscious this morning.

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anxiety, fear, depression, obsession, ai yai yai!

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It would seem that the way some are talking that we have Curly back.