What makes one a "Miles Hater"?

In short yes.
BUT
Conversation about a replacement for Coach MIles should he leave for Michigan should be tolerated as that possibility does seem to exist.

Miles is an awesome recruiter but horrible with managing time outs.
If he can make a great hire at OC this offseason and keep his defensive staff, then I look for miles to have an awesome year next year.
If he sticks with Crowton, he will be pushing peoples patitence to the limit bc Crowton just doenst have it anymore. He cant develop qb's.

What's dumb about that? It's debatable at worst.

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What's dumb about that? It's debatable at worst.

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how is it even debatable? this is his third year. the 2007 team broke every offensive record we had, including points, ppg and td's.

year 2 was perriloux, who played very well in the SEC CG. with him gone, that left hatch, lee and jefferson, none of whom were ready to start for different reasons and there was nothing Crowton could do about that.

this is year 3, and as has been pointed out, Jordan is playing very well. 3 to 1 TD to INT. 63% completion, a 140 QBR. his numbers are just about identical to clausens in his 2nd year, except that was clausens second full year as a starter, and he was called a "10 year prospect" by rivals.

what is your argument that he cant develop QBs? he had a senior and LSU broke every record. year two he lost his starter and had to start from scratch. year 3, a sophomore is playing very well.

please explain this to me.

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MastrShake

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Have this debate with the original guy you called out. I am not saying you're wrong about JJ, but I have other beef with Crowton...mainly play-calling and setting his qb up to fail. In spite of his bad play-calling, JJ has done VERY well.

I think it's funny that you have 119 teams doing everything they can just win one championship. we have 2 in 5 years.

People are hiring nfl coaches, building stadiums and everything and anything to recruit kids.

it's just not that easy. I know we are in better position then most. But we are tooth and nail with the top 20 teams in the country.

pete carrol has only won 1 outright championship. If anyone has underacheived it's him. those kids fought like hell the other night. Lafell was crying on the sideline. Miles is a good coach, if not a great one. Some of you won't know what your missing until it's gone.

most of the time, the most sucessful teams are the most penalized ones. Just like the best athletes are the most injury prone.

I remember clear as day when saban was here. We had several "big games" where our team would totally break down. Turnovers, bobling balls, Kneeling on the one yard line, stupid mistakes. Several trips to florida, auburn, and georgia come to mind.

Our oline has improved a good bit. the team is gelling. We lost to the number 1 and 2 teams after they had bye weeks. Most of us predicted we would be 9 and 3. 10 and 2 would have been a pipe dream.

I admire Miles as a person and I would love to see him succeed, not just for LSU, but because of the type of person he is. I have been a pro-Miles guy since he got here. However, I am very disappointed in what has transpired over the last few days, I think it was a huge mistake to take the "gentleman's" position over the poor officiating. I don't call Miles out for it as much as Alleva/Miles, because Miles has an obligation to LSU to follow their position on such matters. It made LSU look weak and compliant.

I was flamed severely for stating this position on the board this morning, however I attended a luncheon today and spoke to several ex-players and long time fans who feel even more strongly about this than I do. Mike Grundy's outburst last year was lambasted in the press, the effect of it was to energize his team, his fans and his recruiting base.


This was a lost opportunity to make a bad situation a positive, to instill an "us against the world" comradery in the team. Now we just look like helpless victims.

I'm not going to read all of this because; this makes me want to think, you better watch what you wish for? You might get worse!

Afterall, a critic is a legless man who teaches running!

i think it's funny that you bring up a bunch of "won" games in the past as "we could have lost".

This happens every year with all teams, unless your fortunate enough to be florida of 08, miami of 01 and usc of 04.

when we played arky in 06, that was a very good game. When we played auburn in 07 a field goal would have won. Hell we could of lost to ole miss in 03, but we didn't. Alot of teams get played VERY close. When florida won it's title in 06 they won a couple of games by a field goal in the final minutes. Look at alabama and florida this year??? iF ingram is not at bama, they are a 2 loss team

same thing with tebow at florida. So what the hell is your point?? Oh, you don't like miles. Got it.

As our head coach, no...not so much. But I am not one who wants to fire him. I want to see what he can do next year. I also am not naive enough that we can fire him and hire some NFL Hall of Famer. Just pointing out that Miles has been very lucky here. Cannot deny that, Dreaux! Some say no such thing as luck, but in CFB, when you rely on telent to bail you out, it's no entirely creditable to you. Now, a situation like the Colt David fake FG and the play-calling vs. VT and Ohio State - totally give Miles a lot of credit there. But a 4th and long and JR finds Doucet in the corner of the endzone...no, not crediting Miles for that one. That was all JR.