re: A reality check to actual LSU fans

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The reality is we have just as many if not more legitimate questions about the QB position going into 2015 than we did in 2014. Based on intangibles, you have to have a QB who can dig you out of 2-3 games a year. I have seen nothing to support AJ can do that.

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Great points.

To the OP, a transition year is acceptable if you make progress at critical positions. The most critical position is quarterback, and if you think the QB position has progressed through 12 games, then your football IQ is below zero.

If anything, QB regressed at the end of the season. They had a whole offseason to get Jennings and/or Harris ready, and they're not there. What gives you confidence they'll be ready in 2015, especially given this head coach's hideous track record of developing quarterbacks?

Alabama plugged in a new quarterback this year and has one loss. Fifth-year senior (who didn't play much at QB the last four years), but first-year coordinator. Auburn plugged in a JUCO QB last year with a new head coach and was less than a minute away from winning a national championship. Anthony Jennings was on the team last year, so he had time to get ready in this LSU system. Citing his inexperience is a lazy excuse used by a Miles supporter who is clinging to anything he can find to keep supporting this joke of a head coach.

LSU played the first, second, and third ranked scoring defenses in the country this year and six in the top 25. I'm sure that had a lot to do with some of the struggles.

I don't agree with anything you just said.

And also, in a rebuilding year you should be getting the backup QB more reps especially if he is splitting 50% of the practice reps.

It's going to be the same song and dance next year when Harris barely beats out AJ in spring ball... "He's young".

I like AJ as a Tiger, but not as a SEC caliber QB based upon what he has shown to this point. His lack of development during the season is disappointing and the staff has done a poor job in bringing him along and/or game plan to the few things he does well. Even after watching last nights game, I am not sure that AJ's 100+ yards rushing are the result of good game planning specific to what AJ does well or just the end result of what we knew we could do to expose a porous A&M run defense.

The lack of any consistent ability to throw the forward pass is a cause for continued concern in 2015. I know many on here rag Miles for his handling of Harris, but clearly something occurred in the Auburn game (or in additional practices) that spooked the hell out of Miles. Hopefully, Harris will get a full look heading into next season.

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Les is a better LSU coach than you are an LSU fan if you see 103-28 playing in the SEC as a joke!

I hope you are not bringing children into this world if that statement is an example of your intelligence!

I don't know of anyone who claims Les to be the best coach in college football, but frick we have some stupid fans. That is, if you are even an LSU fan!

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How is someone a bad fan because he doesn't like the coach? Anyone who can't see that LSU is getting left behind is a bad fan.
That record is fine but if you break it down we are a little above average.
We are no longer in the mix as a dominant SEC West team. We always say that our league is the best so we accept 3-4 losses. We need to judge our program by winning the SEC West first. So I understand LSU fans not giving a damn about the past. Right now going forward we are the 3rd or 4th best team in the division so deal with it.

The sunshine pumpers will still support Miles and the negatigers will still find fault no matter what he does.

You rantards do realize games are played for player developement so coach had to pass as well to run and it is hard to deveope two young players at the same time !

I believe 2 big concerns have to be exodus of 3rd year players to the NFL and our lack of a passing game.

No school loses as many players early as we do. Something is just not right as Alabama generally has the top recruiting class if not one of the top classes and doesn't lose nearly the number of players that we have. That hurt us in 2013 as the defense was not very good the first half of the season.

Granted, guys like Mingo, Reid, PP, Landry and OBJ are going to leave early and would have been stupid to stay. But some of these guys are drafted late or don't get drafted at all. I don't know what the answer is but if we lose 6-7 players this season (Vadal, Hawkins, Hunter & Mills will likely leave) that will not be good.

I give Jennings alot of credit for taking responsibility and working hard but he simply is not a QB capable of giving us a chance to win the SEC. I don't know what to think about Harris. It seems to me either he has an attitude problem or he hasn't worked hard enough to learn the offense. Jennings must look better in practice. Yet, It's apparent the coaches have no faith in him throwing anything but a long bomb down the sideline or a simple short pass (at times he struggles with that). This is on Miles that we are in this predicament and I don't see us being any better on offense next season if Jennings is the starter behind perhaps just one returning O-line starter.

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And also, in a rebuilding year you should be getting the backup QB more reps

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And you know this because you've seen most of the great coaches do it - like the way Saban keeps taking Sims out and putting the backup in.

I've been watching football for almost 50 years. I've seen all the great coaches - Shula, Bryant, Bowden, Paterno, Lombardi, Saban, Switzer, Landry - in college and the pros, and NONE OF THEM have placed the least bit of emphasis on getting backups into games. They've all understood that practice time is adequate to learning the position, and that preseason in the pros, and cupcakes in college, will give these kids all of the game experience they'll need. It's only stupid fans who place importance on that.

LSU will never win another title with Les at the helm, I guarantee you that.