Circle the wagons...

OK, i have read all of this and this is my take. Many have tolerated Les Miles for the time he has been here. Yes, he does have a good won/loss record since he has been here. Many only recently this year began to verbally speak their disapproval. I happen to be one of those that was never pro Les, but as long as we were winning, kept my mouth shut.

Last year we lost 5 games and many didn't complain as much as now because we knew that we lost our starting quarterback and started the season behind the eight ball so to speak. However, there should not have been the same excuses this year. Les Miles' lack of coaching skills has been exposed all year long. When your offense is ranked 107th in the country, I don't care who your offensive coordinator is, you do something to change the way you are calling plays. We didn't see that because he is a player's/coaches coach. This is not the personality you need in a coach when things you are doing don't work. You need a coach that will right the ship away from the storm, not ride it out into the storm hoping the rain will stop.

Now we are in a predicament of epic proportions. We have a coach that still to this date has not made the changes necessary to right the ship. He wants his coaches to receive their bonuses for playing in a bowl game. He wants his coaches to have the ability to find other jobs before losing their current jobs. Or he just doesn't have the brains to know that he has already lost 40% of tiger nation and stands to lose another 40 percent should he not act quickly in revamping his coaching staff.

Many of the pro les people here are thinking that he will get the team back to playing like they were when he arrived. Folks, that is not going to happen. You have several players that were here when he arrived that had a good foundation to build on as developed by the previous regime. The studs that we are getting now, and we are really getting some quality recruits, only have their high school experience to build upon. They don't have the coaches with the ability to develop recruits when they get here.

I am not one saying that Saban's recruits was the reason Miles was so successful when he arrived, because, Les Miles has had just as good of recruiting classes since he has been here. I am saying that the players Les inherited when he arrived were coached and developed by Saban, which in my opinion is why Les was so successful when he arrived. Last year, the demise began as the majority of the players were players that didn't have much if any time in Saban's regime to develop and Les Miles does not provide the skills or personnel to get these kids playing at the level they should be playing as big time recruits in college.

Furthermore, I really don't understand how some here can think that with us losing over 20 seniors, having a schedule that is very much more difficult, having to deal with other programs in the West that are coming on strong, and dealing with the fact that we will either have the same offensive coaches or an entirely new scheme can think that we can enjoy anywhere near the so called success we had this year. Not going to happen. And the national perception of LSU as a program becomes even worse than it is right now. And then we are really in a predicament then with the rare upcoming 2011 signing class upon us after the program falls further.

I say give him the ax now, make the changes, we do not have near as much to lose now as we will next year.

Thoughts...