My rant on Les Miles

At the time, I remember thinking who was Les Miles when we hired him. I watched the Ohio State vs Oklahoma State bowl game and thinking oh my god what did we do.

Then he arrived and we had to deal with Hurricane Katrina. He lost his opening game at TS on a Monday blowing a big halftime lead, but then ran the table only to lose to UGA after 11 consectutive weeks. Then we blew out Miami and killed their program.

Then 2006 came and he again did great. Yes we lost to Auburn and Florida, but those were top 10 teams on the road. We came back and beat top 10 Tennessee and Arkansas both on the road and blew out Notre Dame.
Then the BCS NC in 07.

Then that’s where things began to turn. Should have hired a top notch DC but instead promoted Doug Mallory and Bradley Dale Peveto to co dc’s. Kicked RP off the team with no qb to turn to other than transfer from Harvard. He got hurt and had to turn to Jarrett Lee. Had pick six’s and then had to turn to JJ. Beat a good GA Tech team in the bowl game.

2009 and 2010 were terrible. Clock mismanagement at Ole Miss then again at home with Tennessee in consecutive years. Finished strong and then got us to the BCS NC game in 2011, but did nothing different and got blown out in the superdome to Bama.

Mettenburger had a terrible 2012 season and then he did great in 2013 but the D took a turn for the worse . Then last year and this, both sides are bad, so we can’t rely on one or the other. Hence 7-4 season and another one headed that way.

Miles is a great man. Heard countless stories on what he has done for people, Sid Ortis, etc., but he is paid to coach the team and to graduate players/get them to the NFL. He has done great in recruiting, but not enough to keep up with Saban and also wasn’t able to coach up guys while here. He has missed on a lot of guys lately and that is showing up on the defensive depth. I don’t see things improving next year, although we will have a lot of talent back on offense and should finish with a top 5 recruiting class again.

Bigger issue I have is with Joe Alleva. Don’t trust him to make the right decision on who to hire. Regardless, I think we can do better. We have the talent, we just need to coaching. LSU recruits itself if we are winning.

I think there are coaches in our own division that I would like to see here. Keep in mind they don’t have Louisiana talent.

Whoever they get, would like to see Frank Wilson and Ed Orgeron retained. They are top notch recruiters and good coaches. I think Mullen, Freeze and Billema could all do better here.

Not sold on Sumlin or Malzahn. If they don’t have a QB that can run their system, they fail.

Not saying these guys would come here, but you have to ask. Chip Kelly, Pete Carroll, Brian Kelly, Chris Peterson, Gary Patterson.

Flame away.