re: So no turning back, right?

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Hell, afternoon drive in Phoenix today consisted of speculation of whether CLM would take USC job.

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This will be the truest measure of how good/bad Miles is. Let's see who picks him up and how fast that happens and what happens in the ensuing 5 years. USC isn't the best measure of coaching character - Kiffin and Sarkisian were nothing to brag about. Being hired by USC would not be a merit badge, IMHO. And despite being the home of media darlings like USC, LA is not a football town.

Any coach Will have 2-3 loss seasons. It's the lack of adapting, developing Qb's, and undisciplined unbalanced offense. U should listen to booger. He's got it right. Time to move on and not be scared of future

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Joe Alleva has hired 3 football coaches as AD (all at Duke), who combined for 59-143. Although I can't argue against David Cutcliffe (as Alleva was headed out the door, more or less, to LSU) - the first 2 posted winless seasons. That's bad, even for Duke football.

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I feel more than just Alleva will be in on the decision making process.

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shite's getting real. I'll tolerate a great deal, but this all on Alleva now. He better have a plan.

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

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The Rant created this. People bitching 24/7 got the local media to pay attention. Now the national drive-by sports media have picked up on it. They will swarm in, shoot up the place, then move the frick on down the road. LSU will be left to pick up the pieces, with a bunch of bullet holes all over the place. Won't be pretty at all.

Everybody said 9-3 or 8-4 record this season before Fournette got rolling with a healthy line and FBs. Now that we're exactly where we thought we'd be, everybody's bitching.

Yes, the offense is WAY too predictable. Yes, we have a gameplan that relies on physical domination, and get owned when a team can match up physically(Bama). Even weaker teams can see how to beat us but can't. The teams that aren't quite as big/strong/fast as us but can gameplan well enough beat us, sometimes soundly.

The man saw 9-6 as confirmation that his style works. Nothing that has occurred since has changed his mind. 1/9 emasculated him, and he has never recovered. He's bringing in top classes now to replace those who go to the NFL, and should have been given the chance to see it through. Fire him after next year.

Nope, that couldn't happen. Rantards are so panic stricken that we must fire the guy now, even without anybody really on the market to replace him. The ensuing dumpster fire is exactly what we deserve as spoiled fans.

Ace you left out the shite show of Pat Sullivan accepting the job but not being able to get out of his buyout with TCU and Dinardo was so desperate for the job he paid his own buyout from Vandy

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

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LSU did this to themselves.

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Say a 'mediocre' coach comes in here and wins a NC right off the bat with, yep, I'll say it MILES' players

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Not gonna happen with the defensive players we have now and returning next year.

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Ace you left out the shite show of Pat Sullivan accepting the job but not being able to get out of his buyout with TCU and Dinardo was so desperate for the job he paid his own buyout from Vandy

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All true - I also left off Spurrier's candidacy, as well as Shanahan and Del Rio's "tarmac" situation, etc.

I mean, let's face it - LSU does not have an institutional history of professional football coach replacements:

Dietzel left us for Army - of all places, then to USCe (then of the ACC). They hired Mac, which was the right call, but then didn't know how to handle it. Mac was a winner and loved LSU - that was enough for awhile - then the negas got really, really restless in 1973. Mac was never fully supported after that. He was too stubborn to quit - heck, he was only 56 when they fired him.

Bo Rein - who knows how good of a hire that was?

Stovall - I can't fault him - he didn't ask for the job, they drafted him. That was literally the best LSU could do under the circumstances (if one believes in Karma, there is some evidence right there).

Arnsparger - I don't know how he was picked, honestly. Objectively a good hire with great results, but it was risky. A strong professional pedigree, Arnsparger hadn't coached college ball in 20 years (Tulane, at that.)

Archer - great Xs and Os coach - way too young and there was no evidence he could run a team from the top (and he couldn't).

Hallman - disastrous decisionmaking on display here.

Dinardo - again, literally the best we could do after plans A through F fell through (and I feel this is happening now - everyone thinks this job is so attractive to coaches, but look how successful coaches are treated here during any time of crisis. And, for all our talk of "toughest stadium" - I've got news for y'all - every stadium is loud when the home team is doing well.)

Saban - wildest stroke of luck. Do you know who play "A" was in late 1999? Tommy fricking Tubberville - if he hadn't been a Sexton client, we might never have stumbled into Saban.

There were lots of top names tossed around in 2004/2005 - Bobby Petrino being a notable one. Saban recommended Nutt (which tells me he was hedging his bets against failing at Miami and either come back to replace Nutt or coach against him.) We were lucky to get Miles, to be honest.

We will be lucky to get Hermann or Fuentes. All this nonsense about Fisher, Chip Kelly, etc. is just that - nonsense.

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Or 10 years. 20, really, if you frick it badly enough.

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Overdramatic much?