Good Coach or Not?

There are many ways to evaluate the performance of a head football coach. Recruiting, X's and o's, public image, keeping kids out of trouble ect. My criteria is, do the players look more polished as the weeks go on? Is there clear improvement in the (mistakes) of the previous contest? In my opinion Les Miles is not a very good coach. He has surrounded himself with outstanding coordinators and recruited well, which is why he has been successful. If you compare him to, let's say an Urban Meyer, Huston Nutt, or Nick Saban there is 1 glaring difference!

Les Miles is FAR inferior in his ability to coach up the x's and 0's! This O line (his specialty) is down right awful. The running game is as bad as I have seen it in a decade. Charles Scott's draft stock is dropping faster than enron stock. The missed 4th and 1 is only a sign of more to come. If you can't run with success at home against a sunbelt team, what are you going to do against a Bama or Florida front? There are lots of Les Miles fans, and the reason he is popular? He goes for it on 4th down, well if he could a coach and get the offensive line to block a little better, he wouldn't have to go for it! Get a little fired up, tip over the gatorade table in the locker room, bench a couple starters,show the team seabiscuit ,whatever it takes.

This team hasn't improved offensively at all. Take a look at an example of what good coaching can do. Washington's coaches (from USC) turned a 0-12 program in to an upset win over #3 USC last weekend. Did they have the talent to do it? Heck no, they played with emotion, with heart, to the best of their potential and then some. So is this LSU offensive line playing to their potential??? Is Miles really worth 3.3 million? Is it worth $300 for 2 tickets to watch this team?? I am a fan and will pay any price but where does the madness stop? Another 4 or 5 loss season and they will be giving the tickets away!