To all short-sighted individuals who want to get rid of Les Miles

When the man had the balls to kick the SECCG MVP, a thug, off of the team, you applauded him.

Since the man started recruiting in 2005, he's brought in classes ranked by Rivals at #22, 7, 4, 11, 2, 6, and currently at #4 for 2011, and you applauded him.

When he started he worked a crowd of boosters by bashing USC’s 2007 schedule and claimed we had a new rival in “Ala-frickin-bama!” you went crazy with approval. “Who do I make the check out to?” you said.

With the number 1 ranking on the line, the man had the balls to go for it on fourth down against Florida when a field goal would’ve tied it. “Hell yeah!” you said, “We’re LSU! We go for the win!” Lesticles, you said.

With a 39 yard field goal for the win, the man calls for throw to the end zone and number 2 hauls it in, right in front of the erupting student section. “Fear the hat!,” you said.

When the man gave his Herbie go to hell presser and was excited about his “Damn strong football team,” you remarked, “Les sure has a way with words.” “Up your’s, Big Blue,” you gloated. “The Mad Hatter is ours!”

When the man held the crystal ball above his head, you thought, “This is how it should be.” When he said, “Woooooeeeeh!” to start his presser, you laughed along with the reporters. LSU, the only school with a pair of balls, you said.

When the man started a freshman at QB near the end of 2008 and went on to dismantle Georgia Tech, you said, “We’ve got our QB for the next three years! Les can sure bring in the talent.”

When the man brought in the Chief to correct the co-DC experiment, you said, “Les is loyal, but he knows when to cut his losses.”

Then one day, someone said, “Les sure does say some strange things when they thrust a mic in his face.” The bumbling idiot was born; stuttering John.

Then he had an unexcusable meltdown in Oxford and made the Right Revend Nutt look like a genius in front of his slobering, inbred, Red Cup Rebels. The national media had a field day.

Then he kept the OC that seems more intent on proving that it’s HIS schemes that win, HIS brains, and HIS talents instead of the alpha male atheletes on the field.

And now the man has assembled two thirds of a national championship calibre football team; a team on the rise, and you want him gone. Defense is greasy good, and young. PP7 is a freak of nature with the ball. But “Fire Les Miles!” you say.

Then, the Chief’s defense becomes so dominant that it makes the offense look pathetic. “Bench JJ!” you said. “Start Lee!” Never mind that if he benches JJ, he gouges his confidence completely and irrevocably; and then we have Lee, and no back up. Instead, Les rotates him in the game…Lee and the team respond. Playmakers catch the ball, the OL is a wall. Maybe Les knows something we don’t about QB confidence.

Team strength is largely cyclical. Where are some of the power houses we shared the spotlight with during the last few years: Texas, Georgia, USC, Tennessee?

My point is that Les Miles is a good coach who has some faults. He is a competent QB away from national contention, and we may have found him. He has a great defense, crazy special teams, good, young OL, and a beast for a RB, and continues to stock the cupboard. Why the hell call for his replacement when LSU is on the rise? Just because he says stupid things off the top of his head? Wears his hat too high? Yeah, yeah, the clock thing…no excuses….but he will get rid of Crowton at the end of this year.

Most of Les’s problem with fans is that he not Saban. I can promise you this though, Saban’s not available.

Rally ‘round Tigers, and man up. There’s more rocky times ahead for these young men and their leader, but they’re on the rise. Support your team and their coach.