Is Miles really to be blamed for the QB situation at LSU?

Well generally speaking I'm gonna look at the guy making the MOST money on the football staff and ask him....WTF? We've obviously had some serviceable QBs in the last 15 years or we wouldnt have the 2 NCs....but taken as a whole....yes.....we've screwed the pooch where QB recruiting and developing is concerned and its probably cost us at least 1 more NC.

I think the point you are trying to make is that LSU's recruiting bread and butter is and has been in state kids, and really we don't have that at the QB position.

Obviously the buck has to stop somewhere, but it's not as easy to get a QB here as people think.

Miles is a nice guy, nothing else matters

QB is also a weird position where if you aren't starting, you aren't playing. Everyone else can be platooned or take plays off to catch a breather, but if you use more than one QB in a game it's either an injury or a controversy.

That being said, let's look at the last few Heisman winning quarterbacks:

Marcus Mariota: redshirt his first year, starter as a RS freshman, consistent starter through his Heisman and junior season
Jameis Winston: redshirt his first year, starter/won Heisman as a freshman, started all but one suspended game his sophomore and last season
Johnny Manziel: redshirt his first year, starter/won Heisman as a freshman, started all (but one half of a game) of his sophomore/last season.
Robert Griffin III: starter all four years for Baylor (had his second season cut short due to injury), won Heisman his last year
Cam Newton: An anomaly due to the nature of his career, regardless won the Heisman during his first and only year with that team.
Sam Bradford: starter from day 1, won his sophomore season


So we have to go all the way back to Tim Tebow to find someone who wasn't a starter for his team as a freshman or his first year with the team, and even then Tebow had significant playing time during that year he didn't start.

That's the thing with elite quarterbacks in college football. If they aren't good enough to overcome the team's depth chart from day 1, they won't be the caliber of quarterback that the rant would be satisfied with. And the talent pool, especially in Louisiana, isn't exactly rich with that kind of talent.

Unfortunately for us, Felipe Franks was that guy.

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Go ahead and start making excuses for Miles not being able to go out of the state of Louisiana to find legit quarterbacks when other SEC schools do it all the time.

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This year alone we went after Shea Patterson, Feleipe Franks, and Dwayne Haskins. What people fail to understand is that when you're recruiting on a national level rather than a local level, there are at least a dozen other schools that can offer the same things or better than LSU.

Florida and Ohio State, were Franks and Haskins committed, are perfect examples of this. Others, like Ole Miss, hire the recruit's brother on staff and commit NCAA violations.

The last qb to be drafted from LA was Stefan Lefors. Dak will change that. But this whole you can win on LA talent alone is made up bullshite, and that any coach can win here is made up bullshite.

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Miles is head coach and is to blame for hiring and firing OCs and QB coaches. It's been a weak spot for almost a decade. I don't know if it's failure to develop or talent evaluation. We've done poorly at the position.

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But you also have to give credit for winning 2 sec titles and a national title. It goes both ways, he deserves all the credit and all the blame. Well I blame Alleva for this Chavis/steele/Aranda situation.


But that's the problem, fans do not want to give the guy any credit.

saban and Jimbo had 2 good seasons of qb play. 2001 and 2003. And in 03 the defense carried that team. Mauck had a good season, not great, and was pretty bad in the bcs championship game.

9 NFl texas QB's

Is not easy to get elite QBs because our head coach won't change his offensive philosophy and get a good player caller.

Miles is concerned with linemen(TE included as aux tackles) and running backs, QB's are an afterthought. Hand-off and toss dive qualified only need apply.