re: A Memo to Coach Les Miles - an appeal to show CHARACTER

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As long as you win 9 games per year, and maybe as few as 8 games, you will lack accountability. The LSU AD and upper administrators will shield you from the far majority of criticisms, call-in show complaints and the like. This is the way it works at major Universities like LSU. People like myself pour own precious dollars into the program because we have to to retain our season tickets, because the temporary pain is outweighed with the recognition that years of enjoyment of our favorite pastime, as well as a huge part of our culture depends on us to do so. We can't risk years of lost tickets in the future, so we suck it up. People like the AD and you interpret this as satisfaction. That has worked, but something major is changing. People like you take advantage of people like me as a result of it. You are the head coach, so you owe no true explanation to anyone. I call BS. It is not like revealing game strategy, where we listen for hours to you saying nothing about tactics in the name of poker and not revealing anything to the opponent. This is different. You just shrug it off and bank on the fact that the W-L record will heal all wounds. You may be right, or maybe not

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