Interesting parallel between Les & Steve Spurrier...

Steve had the want like Saban did after awhile at UF. He'd shredded the SEC through the early 90's all the way to the early part of the Saban Era at LSU. He left for NFL pastures and found his teeth kicked down his throat.

He came back to take over for Sweeth Louth Holthz at South Carolina.

Since his return, he's morphed from a guy who wanted to run Fun 'N Gun into a shotgun spread based attack that's keyed by a power run game, a QB who runs the ball significantly-and well I might add. Along with a defense centered around great play from its DL.

Then, we have Les, whose spurned the siren song of home calling him back to Michigan for LSU twice if you believe the papers. When he first arrived, Jimbo ran a balanced attack and had recruited amazing, NFL caliber talent. Our offenses keyed a team that-for the first time in the history of modern LSU Football-beat Alabama, Auburn & Florida in the same season.

In 2007, Jimbo left and Crowton came in-running things his way-and we saw heights heretofore unseen by an LSU Offense in many respects, winning a National Title.

In 2008, we began a slow decline after pinning our hopes to RP. In 2009, what was hoped to be a progression seemed to perhaps evidence a plateau-if not a full out regression-in our QB talent that Miles was charged with recruiting without Jimbo for the first time.

In 2010, a problem in the defense began to become a strength, and keyed by a talented tailback, we returned to winning ways, but with a simple shell of our former offensive selves.

In 2011, we simply out-talented teams and saw a defense that was littered with lottery picks, All-Americans, and Heisman Trophy Finalists, game-changers aplenty. The offense ran the ball and feasted on teams in flux like UF & AU, and flat-out-outmanned teams from other conferences like Oregon & UWV.

This year, Les doesn't see fit to make a change. We enter into the heart of the SEC Darkness with a man whose offenses show zero signs of life or improvement. Whose receivers run basic routes which lack any sophistication or seeming conceptual basis.

We see a coach who although he had the same siren songs as Spurrier and decided not to listen, and has likewise won a national title, simply refuses to change his stripes based on the inevitable, inescapable truth:

His philosophy is stale, and he's begun to hold our program back...and has been doing so for much of his tenure in TigerTown.

Just interesting to see one of the most arrogant, self-absorbed, snarky coaches in the game at this level has changed with the times after bringing the modern passing offense to bigtime college football in a major way.

...and then seeing our coach still trying to ram a square peg into a round hole.