Was Les Blindsided?

You've made the leap to assume that he has figured out there is a problem.

we had our co-DCs hired for a LOOOOONG time last year behind closed doors. everyone praised miles for his "sly" move, giving him more in-home visits. i cannot buy the, "there were no options" excuse b/c miles seemed to have a plan in place for Maleveto

i agree

i don't think they were the 1st, but i don't think they were, say...10th

i think it was muschamp then maleveto

It's complicated because Miles was seeking the Michigan job behind the scenes.

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i cannot buy the, "there were no options" excuse b/c miles seemed to have a plan in place for Maleveto

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thats not exactly what im getting at...the thing is...if you are going to hire a DC, you have to hire someone that you would assume would produce to a degree to thatwhich we desire

the question then becomes not how many options there were, but how many Muschamp-like options there were..im not sure how many Tenuta's and muschamps there were out there by the time it came to hiring last season...so i think instead of just hiring a DC to hire one,meaning hiring a medicore guy that would do just enough to keep his job a couple of years they went with the CO DC option so they would not be tied down in a sense, thinking they could act as transition coaches if necessary but as it turns out Co-DCs<<<<medicore


ETA: and by transition i mean..miles assumed they could carry on a pelini scheme to enough degree for LSU to get by

andby all eggs in 1 basket, i mean it was either we get Muschamp or we get stuck with malveto

shite i remember after MSU being like...wait, this D sucks and people talking about how awesome we did against AU

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I am doing some research but I am lead to believe that Malveto wasn't always the plan from the get-go...

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im thinking muschamp

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caught flack for chastising the BCS Champ HC.

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I used to get that daily. Not nearly as much these days.

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CO DC option so they would not be tied down in a sense, thinking they could act as transition coaches if necessary but as it turns out Co-DCs<<<<medicore

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I believe this may very well be closer to the truth than anything else. After he wasn't able to match UT's HC when MB retires offer to Muschamp, CLM, not without viable reasons, passed on Tenuta and rolled the dice hoping he could get by for a season with Co-D's until he could position himself to bring in a DC for the 2009 season worthy, if you will, of a successful, high profile CFB program like LSU.

Then came the dismissal of RP, Hatch's concussion and subsequent season-ending leg injury leaving him with only his inexperienced third and fourth string QBs, JL and JJ (whom CLM planned to red shirt initially), coupled with the lack of senior leadership, especially on defense.

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That about sums it up?

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No, it doesn't come near summing it up for me. Les Miles may not have been my first choice for LSU's HC - I much prefer hard-azz defensive-minded HC's in the SEC - but I'm damn sure not going to glory in CLM's failure with the Co-DC debacle. Nor do I buy the bullsh*t rampant on TD that he's a damn idiot who lucked into a job at LSU and fell into team who managed to coach itself into three 10 win seasons and a SECC and the BCSNC.

Nor do I believe CLM is or ever was stupid enough not to see early on the Co-DC get-by was a huge mistake and that he didn't start planning at some point in the season to rectify his big mistake.

I'll critique, bitch about play-calling and how bad the Co-DC mess turned out to be among other things, but, again, I'll be damned if I'll ever glory in the failure of any HC at LSU ... because to do so is to glory in the downfall of the LSU sport that guy is coaching.

I think everyone should take a walk way back down memory lane to the Gene Stallings tenure at 'Bama. Even almost right up 'til late in the season the year he won that national championship - and old-line 'Bama diehard fans remember this all too well - the alumni and the fans bitched, pissed, moaned and ran him down as HC at every turn.

I doubt there was a more delicious private moment for Gene Stallings than when he coached 'Bama to its first national championship since Bear ... and then he promptly walked away from Alabama that year after he won it all.

Be careful what you wish for, you just may get it.