A thought on some of Miles' coaching faults

Triumph-

That's one of the biggest reasons he has never been welcomed by Tiger fans. We want and deserve to be dominant.

I continue to play competitive sports. I want to thoroughly embarass every opponent I play. I am one of those people that if we are up 65-0, keep throwing the ball. It is not about making the other team feel good. Sportmanship can be shown after the game. Your sole goal is to thoroughly destroy whoever you play. Physically dominate them.

Now running up the score aside, certain coaches have that killer instinct. You have to have it certainly to go undefeated in the SEC. It so difficult unless you have it. Urban & Saban are known to be jerks because of this.

I would welcome a jerk that has that mentality.

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I continue to play competitive sports. I want to thoroughly embarass every opponent I play. I am one of those people that if we are up 65-0, keep throwing the ball. It is not about making the other team feel good. Sportmanship can be shown after the game. Your sole goal is to thoroughly destroy whoever you play. Physically dominate them.

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... exactly

It's why I'd make a shitty head coach (among others).

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complacency has put this program on its arse, and that starts all the way at the top

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That's not my point - I don't necessarily think it's complacency.

It's the in-game side of things. I don't doubt Miles' recruiting or football knowledge. I might even put him in the same elite category as other coaches in that arena.

Overall, I think his game preparation is good to great. He seems to make good halftime adjustments too.

Situationally, in real time, he seems to trip up in either play calling or strategy. The best time for LSU to screw up is in the first half, because Miles seems to be able to fix that at halftime. When they start screwing up in the second half, the wheels seem to come off.

It seems like if his game plan is a knockout, he does well. Otherwise, the assault gets stalled and he gets pinned down with nowhere to go and few options.

I think part of this may be Miles, part may be the LSU players (both from a personnel and attitude standpoint). Even under the great warlord Nick Saban, we often struggled to be dominant.

The attitude is the responsibility of the coach, and even Saban admitted he often struggled to get LSU's attitude in the right place (e.g. Ole Miss in '01, Florida in '03, and much of the 2004 season if you read his book)


I do think it takes good QB play to be able to do that more often. As well as any defense can play, if you don't keep putting up points, the opposing team grows more confident. Go back and look at the 2004 team under Nick Saban. We were not "dominant" because our QB play was poor. Oregon St, Auburn, Florida, Troy...these were games we could have run away with, but the offense was in neutral. This year is very similar.

We've certainly had our moments under Miles. Bowl games, the VTech game, Arizona game, '05 at Ole Miss, '06 vs Alabama, even this year's Auburn game were games, to name a few, when Miles' team walked onto the field and made the opponent wish they had never shown up.