re: LSU's 2 losses in 2012

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Bravo on the brilliant crawfish maneuver. This is awesomely ironic. You are using 2 examples, Florida 06, 08 and Bama 09, 11 but my examples are misleading? They are only misleading because they don't suit your anti-Miles agenda.

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Actually, I think my anecdotes are more topical because they are more recent. As I noted, there are significant structural differences between modern CFB and the eras you cite. First and foremost, since the institution of the BCS, the top two teams actually play each other, whereas that wasn't the case in previous epochs. Titles were often decided by traidtional bowl match-ups and arbitrary hypothetical comparisons between teams that never faced each other. Additionally, the ascendency of the SEC is at its zenith. The combination of the BCS system and the outsize talent in the conference have combined to create optimal conditions for winning multiple NC's. I don't think it's a coincidence that both FL and Bama have done it within the last decade. There are other changes that impact the applicability of your analogies, which we can discuss another day.

My agenda isn't anti-Miles. It's pro-LSU. I've said before and I'll say again that Miles is a good, but not elite, coach.

However, the overall goal here should be to maximize LSU's titles. To ensure that in ten, twenty, forty years, there is no question that LSU is the dominant SEC program. This is not unrealistic. LSU has the resources to achieve this objective. So the question becomes how best to do it. Over the next five to ten years, will retaining Miles maximize LSU's championships, or will our championships be maximized by taking a sizable risk and hiring someone else? Or should we take a median approach and retain a "coach in waiting" a al JImbo Fisher?

Which path will maximize our number of national titles in the short and long term?