re: Good coaches? Good athletes?

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There always seems to be a debate as to whether we believe Miles is a great coach or not. .......IMO I think he's just benefitting from having great athletes. It appears that the players seems to go through a regression the longer they stay at LSU. From the quarterback position to even the coveted DL position and everything in between it just seems as though the players are hitting their peaks early

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I could go back and point out all the lower ranked recruits the staff has brought in and how they developed, but I'll just address the players you perceive to hit peaks early and regress.

Do you believe that the head coach of every program is a hands on developer of every athlete that comes through the program? Are you saying that the position coaches do nothing here and everything falls on the head coach's shoulder?

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I know some will quickly point out that Les has guided us to two NC games, but talent wise who had better talent than LSU? We've had highly recruited qb's only to perform subpar thus far, top wr's only to see them perform below their peak performance and our linemen seems to just take plays off at crucial times

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There's a handful of schools that have recruited as well or better than LSU over the last few years, most of those are in the SEC.

So if you're argument is that Miles doesn't develop talent and in fact that talent regresses under him, how is LSU better talent wise than anyone else?

If he doesn't develop talent and he's a bad game day coach, then how does he win here? Surely a coach with both of those traits would lose the majority of games.