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Think about how short sighted the search was for Miles...
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:47 pm
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:47 pm
He had moderate success at best when he was hired from OSU.
There were so so many coaches who would have been an upgrade, but they went Miles. Kinda crazy.
There were so so many coaches who would have been an upgrade, but they went Miles. Kinda crazy.
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:49 pm to TheosDeddy
Timing was a lot different.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:49 pm to TheosDeddy
The Petrino jew joke altered the course of LSU history bigly
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:49 pm to TheosDeddy
All this piling on Miles. He went out with a whimper, but if Saban doesn’t come back to bama, miles has 4-5 nattys. Leave the man be
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:49 pm to TheosDeddy
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There were so so many coaches who would have been an upgrade, but they went Miles. Kinda crazy.
An upgrade from who? Saban?
Name them.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:53 pm to TheosDeddy
Miles was rushed because Saban fricked us at the 11th hour. Still worked out pretty well.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:55 pm to SlowFlowPro
Slowflo what was the joke?
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:55 pm to GeauxPanthers2
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Name them.
Spurrier was available
Mike leach was at Texas Tech
Rich Rod at WVU
Dan Hawkins at Boise
I can keep going
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:55 pm to TheosDeddy
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He had moderate success at best when he was hired from OSU. There were so so many coaches who would have been an upgrade, but they went Miles. Kinda crazy.
Saban screwed us by leaving on Christmas Day.
Skip thought petrino was a slimeball prick-correct.
Jack Del Rio got scared we ended up with miles.
Could have had Spurrier but Nick took too long to make a decision.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:56 pm to TheosDeddy
Come on. He won a NC and got us to another. Most teams would consider that a great hire.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:57 pm to Imber
Del Rio was the pick.
But Skip wouldn’t wait two days for the NFL season to end to sign him. So he got Miles.
But Skip wouldn’t wait two days for the NFL season to end to sign him. So he got Miles.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:58 pm to TheosDeddy
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There were so so many coaches who would have been an upgrade, but they went Miles. Kinda crazy.
They went with someone who's been the most successful football coach LSU has ever had. Go figure.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:59 pm to TheosDeddy
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Spurrier was available
Nope he had already signed with SC.
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Steve Spurrier agreed to coach South Carolina in November 2004, replacing Lou Holtz and officially taking the helm as the head football coach. The hiring was announced after Holtz's retirement, with Spurrier's contract including a guaranteed annual compensation of $1.25 million.
This post was edited on 11/19/25 at 10:01 pm
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:01 pm to TheosDeddy
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Spurrier was available
No he wasn’t.
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Dan Hawkins at Boise
Sucked.
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Mike leach was at Texas Tech
Everyone loves leach for good reason but doesn’t it say a little something that he NEVER got the big job?
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Rich Rod at WVU
Would have been a great hire but he was coming off a year where they were kind of a big flop. Started top 10 and ended up unranked
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:01 pm to armytiger96
Mikes was a great coach but he never evolved.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:03 pm to Geauxing for 3
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Slowflo what was the joke?
The rumor was Petrino didn't know Skip was Jewish and made an off color joke, and then became persona non grata in the search thereafter
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:03 pm to Stevo
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They went with someone who's been the most successful football coach LSU has ever had. Go figure.
I'll have you know that facts are not appreciated here, sir.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:04 pm to BuyloSellhi
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Del Rio was the pick. But Skip wouldn’t wait two days for the NFL season to end to sign him. So he got Miles.
Del rio got scared and left skip sitting on the tarmac while he sat in a suv and left without talking to him.
Understandably Skip got ticked
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:04 pm to diat150
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Mikes was a great coach but he never evolved.
Miles had the same issues wasting the 2006 team that he had later.
2006 is the best all around team of the Miles era in terms of talent.
He was always too conservative. It was just his mindset.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 10:05 pm to diat150
Miles also embraced the goofball persona way too much. He was actually pretty intense those first 2-3 years (ask Tracy Wolfson.)
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