Really think about Les Miles. And how amazing LSU won despite him.

He was a clueless head coach who fell into the perfect situation.

And still managed to screw it up.

Downvoters, please list what Les was good at.


Coaching what exactly?

Scheming?


Coaching a specific position group of specialty?

Miles was just old school and tough hard nosed football still won him games because LSU generally dominated in the trenches

His refusal to adapt to the modern college game was what frustrated fans more then anything

Saban style was actually very similar until he saw the times and how the rules changed and he adapted by changing his offense completely

O was a bigger moron then Miles but caught lightning in a bottle until he forgot how to manage a roster

I think sports gets too complicated at times. Les miles 2011 team, might have been best pure football team, hat for hat, lsu ever had.. until 2019. And orgeron put that team together. 2 guys that are called buffoons. Both are likeable characters, that people gravitated towards. Both could recruit well... and struggled when their coordinator well went dry.

Les had lot of coaching flaws, but end of the day he was a good overall coach for lsu, got us a title, and without Jefferson deer in headlights look all night, might have gotten a 2nd one. He refused to move on from cam Cameron and got stuck in offensive black hole...before all this other stuff, that was his biggest flaw.

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He really really was a poor poor coach.

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from 2005-2012 he was a top 5 HC. He just happen to coach in the same era as the GOAT Nick Saban and refuse to adapt past 2013 He has probably two more titles if Nick stays in the NFL.

Les did some things well and other things not so well. He won a championship and has millions in the bank. Not too bad for a moron.

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I have spoke to a quite a few of his former players and I ask them all the time about their recruitment by him.

They say he spoke and was exactly as he put forth in the media- aloof and disconnected.


I follow up and ask, “yet, you still chose to play for him?”

Most answer, “I wanted to be a Tiger.”

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No one actually believes this






Also, why so much spacing in your post?

Since his firing, a lot has come to light.

Dude was an idiot who fell into the right situation.

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Also, why so much spacing in your post?

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Can you imagine typing a post out like this smooth-brained moron and thinking you nailed it with the format?

Miles was a decent recruiter and motivator which was good enough at LSU to beat 80% of the teams on his schedule at the time by just running the ball up the gut, but never got the most out of his players.

Other than recruiting, he was always a bum strategic and gameday coach who lucked into the most perfect situation with a championship roster already in place and the largest budget for assistants. Add the fact that there has never been a coach before or since where so many balls bounced the right way despite some very questionable decisions, but his luck regressed to the mean in his waning years.

Saban routinely played Les like a fiddle despite similar talent on the field every November.

He was a protoypical CEO head coach. We knew it when he was here. He was dependent on his assistants for on field success. He could recruit the living room like nobody's business. Boiling it down to instate kids "wanting to be a Tiger" is disingenuous or ignorance. He played a major role in procuring the talent we had in his era. He was a master motivator as well. That can be huge in a locker room. He builds a culture well. Not without warts but overall pretty impressive. Point is, you aren't as successful as he was here for as long as he was by not being good. Plenty of "smarter" coaches would die for his career.