So no turning back, right?

The media is like a runaway cancer; no matter what it touches, it gets worse.

Perhaps LSU should have beat Arkansas and Ole Miss and not got blown out?

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We wouldn't have gone down this road without a plan

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Dear Christ I hope you're right.

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We wouldn't have gone down this road without a plan

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If this plan involved listening to Jimmy Sexton - I would say that it may have some flaws.

Look - this is done, as far as Miles going - but those of you who aren't old enough to recall the coaching searches going back to Archer -

Let's go back to cover the coaches over my lifetime (yeah, I'm old buddy - wanna make something of it?):

Mac was the coach when I was born.

1979 - Dietzel was brought back to be AD to fire Mac.

Bo Rein hired - died before coaching a game - crazy aviation incident - probably decompressed and everyone died without ever knowing what went wrong - plane never found.

Jerry Stovall - never head coached in his life - legendary player and assistant to Mac - came in as an emergency hire. Defeated Bear Bryant in that coach's last game against LSU. Fired after 4 seasons (despite efforts of the sitting governor and a former governor), finished 22-21-2, losing record in conference, 0-1 in bowl games, never coached again.

Arnsparger - came in to replace Stovall. 26-8-2, overall, in 3 seasons. Not fired by LSU, but left to become AD at Florida. Returned to coaching for 3 seasons as a DC in the NFL (San Diego).

Archer, more or less handpicked by Arnsparger (and the players) despite questions about his lack of head coaching experience. Started strong but faded quickly, fired after 4 seasons - 27-8-1 (1-1 in bowls - first season finished #5 in the polls). He went on to a distinguished assistant coaching career, including Super Bowl rings, etc. and is still coaching at Virginia. THIS IS WHERE IT GETS IMPORTANT.

Hallman - Archer was fired, more or less, to get Hallman or someone like him. Hallman was 23-13 at Southern Miss - get that - he had a WORSE resume than Archer. He also overlapped his Southern Miss with a QB out of Kiln, MS with a difficult-to-pronounce last name (Favre/Farva - some frickin' thing). A lovable loser, to be sure, but a loser nonetheless - kept on losing as long as he coached. Hallman was fired because, well, frick Hallman (16-28, 10-21 in conference - in other words bad for even a Mississippi State coach).

Dinardo - who was coaching at fricking Vanderbilt - I drank the Kool Aid as well, on that one - unlike our current situation, literally any change WOULD have been an upgrade from Hallman. And Dinardo was - too loyal to assistants, for sure, but a damned fine CEO type head coach and because of his background at Notre Dame, had a unique, almost organic understanding of what LSU needed to do to get back. All that rebuilding that Saban gets the lion's share of credit for? Well, at a minimum, he owes an assist - if not a half a sack, to mix metaphors - to one Gerard Paul Dinardo. Dinardo was fired after a similar situation to the one we have - but, instead of going quietly, he just quit prior to the last game, which is what they have goaded Miles to do, but he's about $15 million smarter than they are at this point.

Saban - while not going into what he did while he was here, a successful head coach for whom coaching at LSU was not enough. He pursued his "dream" of coaching in the NFL for a solid 2 years before running back to CFB and Alabama.

We were lucky to get Les Miles after the Christmas present that year.

So, here we are - people who have never forgiven Miles for not being Saban finally get their wish.

And may G-d help us all....

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The national media built this now trashes LSU fans for it.

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Dude, the local sports page leaked the story per the AD's request!

Quality post

To me it's crazy to think about this....

Say a 'mediocre' coach comes in here and wins a NC right off the bat with, yep, I'll say it MILES' players... It actually happens after all these years of sucking someone else's dick (saban) that another coach comes in here and wins a title with the formers' players...

Another season or two goes by with say 10-3 and 9-3 records and this guy gets an extension..... But in all actually he's a terrible coach and the program goes to shite...






Then what??

People on here keep talking about a "shitshow." I'm not really sure what is being referred to. What are you talking about? I don't watch Tony Cornhizer or whoever -- is it those assholes getting you all worked up? If that's the case, turn off the TV.

What exactly is the "shitshow?" I honestly don't know what you're referring to.