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In all honesty, how many of you were disappointed at the time when

Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:19 pm
Posted by LSUMafia
Member since May 2005
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Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:19 pm
Miles was hired to replace Saban? Have your feelings changed since?

I'll admit that I wasn't excited about the hire, and questioned it, but still was willing to give Miles a chance. I think if he makes the right Asst Coach hires, he can be very successful, but he can't counteract at all his bad hires (see 2008 defense) until potentially a season later.

If I remember correctly, seems like almost everyone was worried that we'd just made a mistake and gone on the cheap.

This isn't to knock Les, but just curious to see how people's views have or haven't changed in 6 years.
Posted by LSU fan 246
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:20 pm to
ugh
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ugh
Posted by AlexLSU
Member since Jan 2005
25341 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:21 pm to
quote:

In all honesty, how many of you were disappointed at the time when
Miles was hired to replace Saban?


Me.

quote:

Have your feelings changed since?


No.
Posted by Springlake Tiger
Uptown
Member since Aug 2006
15531 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:21 pm to
quote:

In all honesty, how many of you were disappointed at the time when
Miles was hired to replace Saban?
yes
quote:

Have your feelings changed since?
no
Posted by JJ27
Member since Sep 2004
60882 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:24 pm to
Same as everyone else. I hated the hire considering Tech beat him 2 out of 3 times.
Posted by ipodking
#StopTalkingAboutWomensSports
Member since Jun 2008
56874 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:26 pm to
great hire then, great hire now

screw the haters
Posted by xiv
Parody. #AdminsRule
Member since Feb 2004
39508 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:26 pm to
quote:

Miles was hired to replace Saban? Have your feelings changed since?
I knew he wasn't good enough, and I was right. He isn't good enough for LSU.

If LSU is shelling out $4,000,000 a year, it should get an elite coach. LSU is wasting millions.
Posted by DBG
vermont
Member since May 2004
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Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:26 pm to
definitely an underwhelming hire at the time, but i was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt

my feelings changed throughout his first couple years but have returned to the initial "meh"
Posted by TexasTiger6777
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Member since Jan 2008
3079 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:26 pm to
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Same as everyone else.


Not the same as everyone else. There are plenty of fans who still support Miles.

I was more upset at the time that Saban ditched us for the NFL. But once we hired Les, I supported him.
Posted by tigermike200444
baton rouge
Member since Dec 2003
9106 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:27 pm to
i was happy
Posted by Duward
Member since Jan 2010
115 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:27 pm to
I was PROFOUNDLY disappointed!

I could not believe, our AD could make such a choice.

It is not personal, it is just not a good fit for LSU.

He and Dinardo, cut their eyeteeth, under McCarthey at Colorado.

I wanted somebody, outside of the LSU gene pool, so don't get me wrong.

But from casual awareness of Miles' resume, I would have NEVER HIRED HIM AS LSU HC.

Nothing has happened, that convinces me I was wrong.

Miles' demeanor, from the getgo was one of shiftlessness and casualness. He is not wired to lead the LSU Nation. PERIOD!

I thought you would ask: HOW MANY OF YOU WERE DISAPPOINTED WHEN HE DID NOT LEAVE FOR MICHIGAN!

That made me sick too, I could not believe we would be so LUCKY!! At the time, I just did not believe that Michigan could hire him. But blind acorns fall in the lap of blind pigs....
Posted by TexasTiger6777
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Member since Jan 2008
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Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:27 pm to
quote:

If LSU is shelling out $4,000,000 a year, it should get an elite coach


They weren't shelling out $4 million until after he brought home the trophy.
Posted by TexasTiger6777
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Member since Jan 2008
3079 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:29 pm to
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He is not wired to lead the LSU Nation. PERIOD!


Who, other than Lord Saban fits this description?
Posted by Godfather1
What WAS St George, Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
82901 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:30 pm to
quote:

definitely an underwhelming hire at the time, but i was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt

my feelings changed throughout his first couple years but have returned to the initial "meh"


This.
Posted by DBG
vermont
Member since May 2004
74227 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:31 pm to
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Who, other than Lord Saban fits this description?


all youre proving here is that LSU has a history of mediocre coaches
Posted by bengaltygers
Da East
Member since Dec 2007
1699 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:31 pm to
Every body please shut the frick up. TIA.
Posted by TexasTiger6777
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Member since Jan 2008
3079 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:33 pm to
quote:

all youre proving here is that LSU has a history of mediocre coaches


incorrect. I asked a question.
Posted by Rocket
Member since Mar 2004
61117 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:35 pm to
quote:

In all honesty, how many of you were disappointed at the time when
Miles was hired to replace Saban?


I was not pumped.

quote:

Have your feelings changed since?


A little

quote:

If I remember correctly, seems like almost everyone was worried that we'd just made a mistake and gone on the cheap.


There is always going to be skepticism when you replace a successful coach who turned your program around with a coach folk know little about it.

Posted by xiv
Parody. #AdminsRule
Member since Feb 2004
39508 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:36 pm to
quote:

They weren't shelling out $4 million until after he brought home the trophy.
So a national title costs $1.25 million, and an 8-5 season costs $4 million.
Posted by DBG
vermont
Member since May 2004
74227 posts
Posted on 4/2/10 at 5:36 pm to
no, you want to know who other than saban has won a title at lsu

youre trying to make a point that miles is worth a damn, when the only point youre making is that lsu has always had medium grade coaches
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