re: Building a powerhouse is fun, MAINTAINING IT ISN'T !

While Miles deserves blame for our losses this season so does the whole program.

We didn't have everything go our way this season either. We ended up having a very difficult schedule in the middle of the season with UF, USC, A&M, and Bama. We also had a young QB, an OL which was young and injured, and a group of WRs who dropped way too many balls for a good portion of the year. The defense had flaws at times this season too. So it is kind of irritating to constantly see everyone blame everything on Miles instead of taking in the whole situation.

The Reality:

1. Saban is clearly the best college football coach in the country.
2. He coaches at a school he is able to have consistently one of the top if not the top recruiting class annually.
3. He has gotten the benefit of the doubt from the media and polls from the beginning at Bama.
4. Bama has had everything basically go their way the last several seasons as far as injuries, scheduling, and their bump into the 2012 BCSNCG.

So as an LSU fan people need to just fricking deal with it. I can understand the complaints about the recent bridge scheduling (also continuing complaints about the stupid idea of permanent cross division opponents) and some of the obvious benefit of the doubt polling which finally led up to Bama selection to the 2012 NCG.

The fact is there is only one Nick Saban. He is the best coach with atleast as good of talent as any other team and is also having everything fall his way. Not every program can be on top and definitely not when going up against those odds. LSU has a great coach and the program is also very strong. LSU is one of the only programs that can potentially take the top spot if things go there way instead of Saban's. I don't think there is any problem admitting that fact. Fans need to be proud and stop being so ridiculously pessimistic.