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Coach Miles is doing his best coaching job since being at LSU
Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:17 pm
Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:17 pm
This might be the best pure coaching job Les Miles and his staff have done since he’s been at LSU. Look at the starting players from this year’s team and see that it is almost half of those players are injured or no longer at LSU.
On offense, the injuries to re-structured offensive line, the loss two senior QBs (this might be a good thing) and replaced with a kid that has tons of talent and is just now starting to get that much needed experience, the loss of a big sure handed WR in the second round to the NYG and replaced with hard working and again less game time experience that are starting to catch the ball. This is all a work in progress.
On defense, LSU loses two national award winning CB, an experienced safety, a Senior reserve CB that actually could have started for any other SEC team, a first round CB and DL to the NFL, and various injuries have forced LSU to use many true freshmen in the defensive backfield. This is a work in progress.
All of this and he still went toe to toe with the man that some people consider the best college coach in the game today. Yes LSU got beat, yes Coach Miles erred in the aggressive nature of his decision making and his wants to a fault, but what other available coach out there has done a better job in defeating Coach Saban than Coach Miles.
The quirky personality of Les Miles is the very thing that gives the overly structured Saban fits. It’s the un-scripted, un-orthodox, un-cola ways of Coach Miles that makes Saban look stunned in those games where he loses to LSU. Coach Saban’s body language almost screams “How in the hell did Les do that to me”. Even in victory last night Coach Saban still seemed stunned.
For those few LSU fans who want Coach Miles gone, one trait that LSU would miss, the man can recruit players who are big, fast and would run through brick walls for their coach and for LSU.
I,like anyone else, questioned his attempt of the 54 yd FG and not punting before half. I actually thought the fake FG was purposely insane to confuse Saban, and I liked the on-side kick if not for a bad bounce it would have been successful, but at the end of the day a 80% winning coach that may be a few degrees off center, is still an asset that LSU.
For those of you who don’t like to read long rants, I basically said I like Coach Miles.
As far as the German Patrol on the Rant, so what if it is German.
On offense, the injuries to re-structured offensive line, the loss two senior QBs (this might be a good thing) and replaced with a kid that has tons of talent and is just now starting to get that much needed experience, the loss of a big sure handed WR in the second round to the NYG and replaced with hard working and again less game time experience that are starting to catch the ball. This is all a work in progress.
On defense, LSU loses two national award winning CB, an experienced safety, a Senior reserve CB that actually could have started for any other SEC team, a first round CB and DL to the NFL, and various injuries have forced LSU to use many true freshmen in the defensive backfield. This is a work in progress.
All of this and he still went toe to toe with the man that some people consider the best college coach in the game today. Yes LSU got beat, yes Coach Miles erred in the aggressive nature of his decision making and his wants to a fault, but what other available coach out there has done a better job in defeating Coach Saban than Coach Miles.
The quirky personality of Les Miles is the very thing that gives the overly structured Saban fits. It’s the un-scripted, un-orthodox, un-cola ways of Coach Miles that makes Saban look stunned in those games where he loses to LSU. Coach Saban’s body language almost screams “How in the hell did Les do that to me”. Even in victory last night Coach Saban still seemed stunned.
For those few LSU fans who want Coach Miles gone, one trait that LSU would miss, the man can recruit players who are big, fast and would run through brick walls for their coach and for LSU.
I,like anyone else, questioned his attempt of the 54 yd FG and not punting before half. I actually thought the fake FG was purposely insane to confuse Saban, and I liked the on-side kick if not for a bad bounce it would have been successful, but at the end of the day a 80% winning coach that may be a few degrees off center, is still an asset that LSU.
For those of you who don’t like to read long rants, I basically said I like Coach Miles.
As far as the German Patrol on the Rant, so what if it is German.
This post was edited on 11/5/12 at 5:40 pm
Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:20 pm to MrKnowItAll
Flame or to lazy;don't read in 3... 2... 1...
Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:20 pm to MrKnowItAll
Lol, we went 11-2 in 2005 with some of the toughest circumstances a team has ever faced. How quickly people forget.
Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:22 pm to AlexLSU
Yeah 2005 was almost a miracle.
Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:24 pm to AlexLSU
13-0, beating the greatest defense ever in the their house
number two is winning a football with hatch as qb
number two is winning a football with hatch as qb
Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:24 pm to AlexLSU
This year (excluding the Florida game) and 2005 have been his best. Last year was absolutely incredible because of how difficult the schedule was but I don't need to recap how it ended.
This year, he's scrapped together a team that seemed to be falling apart at the seams a week or two into the season. A&M might end up being a top 10 team. We beat a #3 opponent in Tiger Stadium and should have finished off #1. The loss at Florida was not a well coached game so I still put this year (so far) behind 2005
This year, he's scrapped together a team that seemed to be falling apart at the seams a week or two into the season. A&M might end up being a top 10 team. We beat a #3 opponent in Tiger Stadium and should have finished off #1. The loss at Florida was not a well coached game so I still put this year (so far) behind 2005
Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:26 pm to blkhawktiger
OK this year and 2005 are his best coaching jobs at LSU. lol
Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:27 pm to MrKnowItAll
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Coach Miles is doing his best coaching job since being at LSU
not really a high standard to beat
Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:29 pm to MrKnowItAll
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Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:30 pm to Maximus
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Maximus
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not really a high standard to beat
I knew you would be in here with the quickness when I read the thread title.
Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:36 pm to ForeLSU
A few weeks ago I told myself 10-2 may be overachieving for this team. They have had a lot to overcome, and TM7 has been the biggest obstacle.
It sucks. We haven't had a last minute loss like that in a few years (Cap 1 Bowl was the last time we had the lead and lost it very late).
It sucks. We haven't had a last minute loss like that in a few years (Cap 1 Bowl was the last time we had the lead and lost it very late).
Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:36 pm to Maximus
Damn Maximus 62819 post. Damn man you a posting fool.
Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:43 pm to MrKnowItAll
. . . and he's doing the very best he can, Good Gracious, I can't think of a better man than he to coach my son's football team or my daughter's soccer team.
Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:46 pm to AlexLSU
You're right. He was so discombobulated from Katrina that he ACTUALLY called a TO following a Laron Landry intercption against Tennessee...in a very "stop the clock!!!" manner.
This post was edited on 11/5/12 at 5:48 pm
Posted on 11/5/12 at 5:49 pm to MrKnowItAll
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Damn Maximus 62819 post. Damn man you a posting fool.
Every single one as enlightening and thoughtful as that last little gem.
Posted on 11/5/12 at 6:05 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
That's just too much common sense. Most on here can't see that we shouldn't even have scored on Bama with what we have on the line right now.
The coaches have done an outstanding job getting these young men ready to play.
My hat is off to Miles for giving TM7 the boot. It was tough and it hurt our team, but look at the results. The kid gets busted a short time later and Miles knew it could have been at critical time of the year when we needed him the most.
Instead the man let the axe fall and he moved on. We have lost countless players over the course of this year and yet we have IMPROVED.
Now I know why we are called Rantards.
I don't want another coach. There is not another coach out there that fits LSU better. Yes, there may be a better X and O coach out there, I just like Miles and his style.
To see his shite eating grin on that bus when they pull up to the hill just lets me know that we got this.
Knowing we are not going to win every game, every championship and so on, is fine with me.
I know that he gives it his all and his players and coaches do too. That's all a fan hope for.
The coaches have done an outstanding job getting these young men ready to play.
My hat is off to Miles for giving TM7 the boot. It was tough and it hurt our team, but look at the results. The kid gets busted a short time later and Miles knew it could have been at critical time of the year when we needed him the most.
Instead the man let the axe fall and he moved on. We have lost countless players over the course of this year and yet we have IMPROVED.
Now I know why we are called Rantards.
I don't want another coach. There is not another coach out there that fits LSU better. Yes, there may be a better X and O coach out there, I just like Miles and his style.
To see his shite eating grin on that bus when they pull up to the hill just lets me know that we got this.
Knowing we are not going to win every game, every championship and so on, is fine with me.
I know that he gives it his all and his players and coaches do too. That's all a fan hope for.
This post was edited on 11/5/12 at 6:07 pm
Posted on 11/5/12 at 6:13 pm to textigah
A great coach would see that the prevent defense isn't working after making SC and ATM look closer than they were and it finally came back to bite him in arse. Why would you do against AJ, I hate the dude with every fiber in my being but the dude is a good passer.
You watch your defense own teams especially in the second half, and hey lets give them ten yards every time and let them score on pace with Oregon's offense, BUT we're not going to give up the big play.
ETA: I'm getting at stubbornness here. Great recruiter, nice guy. Needs to delegate to his coordinators and learn when shite isn't working i.e., Jefferson not being worth his weight in dog shite when Lee got you a perfect season up til he was pulled, and this putrid prevent defense
You watch your defense own teams especially in the second half, and hey lets give them ten yards every time and let them score on pace with Oregon's offense, BUT we're not going to give up the big play.
ETA: I'm getting at stubbornness here. Great recruiter, nice guy. Needs to delegate to his coordinators and learn when shite isn't working i.e., Jefferson not being worth his weight in dog shite when Lee got you a perfect season up til he was pulled, and this putrid prevent defense
This post was edited on 11/5/12 at 6:19 pm
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