re: So.... How many NCs did Les leave on the table?

According to the rant at least 6

Since Les took over in 2005 LSU fans expectations have been a national title every year but 08 and 09

So that's expectations of 6 titles in 8 years

I've been a fan for 45 years. The fan base never had those kind of expectations in the other 37 years.

So if anything, the man has raised the expectations to a all-time high. Reading about LSU football history, the program has never had that kind of sustained period of "want" from the fanbase.

You are free to take that as you like.

Yeah, but Gonzales, then Krags, then Mett were also supposed to fix things. Gonna stay cautiously optimistic

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He did the right thing with Perriloux it may have cost us that year but it was the right thing to do. Jim Tressel wishes he had the same integrity and morals as Miles.

That Alabama team of 2011 may have been the best team ever. They were rewarded for losing to us at home. We get penalized by having to play an extra game in Atlanta against Georgia who runs a 3-4 defense like Alabama does. What a huge advantage for Bama; no risk of injury and the team u are going to play has to roll out its entire game plan against the GA 3-4 while you get to see what they are trying to do and will try to do against your 3-4. But it was Ga's success early on defense that caught Bama's eyes. Ga had a terrific game plan on how to stop the LSU offense. Saban is not the coach to face with such an unfair advantage. He and the revenge minded Tide took full advantage. Im not sure with our QB play that any coach wouldve beat Alabama that night under those same circumstances. I wouldve changed QB's but I dont really believe it wouldve made a difference and most likely wouldve turned the game into a rout.

I do think last year he was at least 50% responsible for the Alabama loss. That wouldve left LSU A&M and Bama at 10-2 having beaten each other on their home fields. If LSU wouldve been given the SEC west crown then they still wouldve had to beat Ga. So possibly 1.
But when u figure in he had to replace his ALL SEC LT, 3 yr starting RT, 2 yr starting RG, his starting RB along with his Heisman finalist on defense,and then break in a new QB, it may have been his best year of coaching ever.

Why the need to justify CLM all the damn time.

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So... While debatable, I think even Rantards are accurate when they say Miles left 4 NCs on the table, but don't understand why this has to be an indictment against the man

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Really? Your title seems to squarely place the blame on Miles.

Left 4 on the table? Wow! No coach has left 4 on the table in 8 years unless it is your fantasy team on EA Sports, Play Statin, 360, etc.

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2008 - losses in defensive starters and Pelini, as well as the recruiting effects from the 2005 Miles/Saban transition caught up to the team. Nobody should have expected us to repeat this year, however

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You left out we dismissed our starting quarterback right before the season started and were thus thrown into the Hatch/Lee/Jefferson situation.

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2012 - We let Florida get away with one this year and played a hell of a game against Bama that really could have gone either way. Had Beckham not fumbled the long pass in the 4th or had the defense stood up at the end of Bama, we probably destroy ND.

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We dismissed possibly our most electric player and game changer right before the season began.

So, I would say LSU, not miles, left one on the table in 2011 and that one should never have happened.

Arnsparger was very good and Dinardo doesn't get the credit he should but at the end of the day, assuming Les stays till 2020 or so, it'll be Miles then everyone else, for LSU football.

How many years has he been here? That many.

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