re: Is Les Miles one of the greatest coaches of all time? ETA: message to come

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how he made no adjustments to turn things around in the game

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Unfortunately, I think what most people mean by this statement is a change in QBs. I doubt very much if amost of us have analyzed the film to see if we changed blocking schemes, etc, which in the case of the NCG would likely have been more important. We lost that game, badly, in the trenches. I mean, the worst arse-beating I've ever seen us take in the trenches.

Is changing QBs when thing are not going well in the trenches the be-all and end-all of good coaching vs bad? Really?

And look, I'm not a JJ fan. I think he was the worst QB in the SEC. I also think he MAY have been the best choice to beat Bama last year, and I think that is why Miles stuck with him so damn much at the end of the year--- trying to get him as good as possible before the NCG.

Bama last year ate pocket passers alive.

Now, we lost the game-- badly. But it is not all clear that a QB change would have done a thing in the world to help, and may have made it worse. Who knows?