re: Do you now understand why most of us appreciate Miles' manner?

I hate how relentless negativity is what passes for “realism”. Fine. A realistic assessment of Miles is that he does some things well and some things poorly. He’s won wherever he has been, and was the more successful at Okie St than Jimmy Johnson, who is a pretty good coach from what I hear. He’s won a national title. He’s not some rube, despite what people try and say.

Is he the best coach on earth? Obviously not. His game management is pretty horrible. But he’s a great recruiter (yeah, I know, LSU recruits itself… whatever), he is a decent human being, he seems to be a good boss which has allowed us to attract good assitants (look how easy it was to get Wilson and Gonzales for essentially lateral moves). Am I 100% satisfied? No, of course not. But the people bringing up the “last two years” thing are just manipulating numbers. First, they use an arbitrary cutoff to make him look worse, and then ignore that the team rebounded from 3-5 to 5-3, which is not insignificant. People want to talk about trends and then, well, ignore the trends they don’t like.

I’m just sick of the whiny, negative nancy bullshite. Miles does some things well and he does some things poorly. But who available is better? Patterson has turned everyone down. Edsall’s not leaving Uconn. Ask Colorado about hiring a successful Boise St. coach. The grass is not always greener. Ask Nebraska about firing their not-successful-enough coach.

Any time someone dares say anything remotely positive, the same morons come in to spout off their “realism”. We get it. Reasonable minds can disagree. Now look around this great wild world and kill yourself.