Miles/Pellini job interviews/changes cost LSU a NC?

You have to wonder if the fact that we got worse as the year progressed if this didn't play a part in that.

I feel that it did and although I supported Les Miles from day one, I won't be sorry to see him go. He blew it.

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I think that Les Miles and Pellini from the mid part of the season has been distracted from coaching LSU due to job interviews and such.

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I don't buy it. Coaches are fathers, husbands, siblings, sons, etc...They deal with a lot of shite in their lives like everybody else. I just don't see how a job possibly opening up could distract them worse than anything else. What if Les's mom was diagnosed with cancer in the middle of the season? Would you blame us not winning a NC on that? Because I would think that would be a lot more likely to cause a coach to lose his focus than a job that may or may not be open.

yep. Also, the staff appears to be leaving the recruiting trail to luck as well: LINK

It may have but this team was so poor fundamentally that it was just a mater of time before time ran out. I hope Bertman and Co. do not make Miles too good of a counter offer.

Is it just an irony that we played our best game on the day that Michigan lost to Oregon start 0-2? That game started the calls for Carr's retirement. Since then, we have not played nearly that complete of a game. Perhaps this has been on Miles' mind a lot longer than just since Carr actually announced his retirement at the end of their season.

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For us fans, knowing that Les and Bo have been distracted makes you sick inside. Having this much talent and coming up short 2 years in a row is just gut-wrenching.

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BUt again we don't know that.

I find this curious. Everyone is so worried about the COaches be distracted. However a few weeks back when Les and the Coaches were having to conduct internal investigation and deal with all the Varsity stuff no one seemed to think it was a big deal.

Despite that was one the one weekend where the Coaching staff could rest.

That was much more of a distraction I suspect than any of this

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Everyone is so worried about the COaches be distracted.

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bayou, I have never thought that the coaches were "overly distracted". and the varisty issue was one where the central figure of the team was solidly in control, in charge, and assuredly a stable force in the "aftermath". I think the coaches are professionals and I am talking more about the "team" in this....I don't know if "distracted" is the best word for this scenerio...maybe we should just say "affected". I cannot believe that with the powerful connection that there is between coaches and their athletes, that the "chemistry" of the team has not been jolted some ever since Les did the best he could to walk the fence about his future employement situation the day Carr resigned.
I still think he did the very best he could do under the circumstances...but it invariably had to shake the core of the team "karma". this time HE was the center of the storm, not the center of the haven from the storm....

It just seems to me a lot of people are giving Miles a free pass. I don't know if they actually think he's a good coach or they just hate Saban so much that they want Les to succeed, but he should be called out. Everytime someone bitches about Miles some old timer says, "Well you weren't around for Curly, so you don't know what losing is." That's bullshite, Les should have had the team ready.

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I find this curious. Everyone is so worried about the COaches be distracted. However a few weeks back when Les and the Coaches were having to conduct internal investigation and deal with all the Varsity stuff no one seemed to think it was a big deal.

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Now that's just a lie. How can you say that no one seemed to think it was a big deal? It was all over the board for days or weeks. I myself expressed that Miles must have been ticked off cause he was looking forward to enjoying his kid(s)' pee wee football games which he kept talking about at his pressers.

br: your points are always well articulated and I've always respected your views and still do but I'm starting to think that your loyalty to the coaches are coloring your outlook.