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re: For the old-timers...when did Cholly Mac first get on the hot seat?
Posted on 1/29/13 at 12:25 pm to liquid rabbit
Posted on 1/29/13 at 12:25 pm to liquid rabbit
The day after he replaced Dietzel
It's always been like that at LSU. And I am serious. Different forums and amount of "want him gones" but some folks were not happy from the start
Ive said it before, Miles is just like Chooly in the amount of heat he takes
ETA: Two funny or cute stories. My first LSU game was in 1973 vs UF. LSU was a power at the time. All I really remember from the game was the people around us compaining about Mac
second one, first game under Stovall, LSU shut out by FSU. I yell from the upper south endzone as the game is ending to Bring Mac Back.....old timers almost threw me over the railing
It's always been like that at LSU. And I am serious. Different forums and amount of "want him gones" but some folks were not happy from the start
Ive said it before, Miles is just like Chooly in the amount of heat he takes
ETA: Two funny or cute stories. My first LSU game was in 1973 vs UF. LSU was a power at the time. All I really remember from the game was the people around us compaining about Mac
second one, first game under Stovall, LSU shut out by FSU. I yell from the upper south endzone as the game is ending to Bring Mac Back.....old timers almost threw me over the railing
This post was edited on 1/29/13 at 12:29 pm
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Posted on 1/29/13 at 12:27 pm to danfraz
where did the heat come from back then? was it mainly talk radio?
Posted on 1/29/13 at 12:31 pm to danfraz
The knock on Coach mac was that he couldn't win the "big" game (read - Bama). The 2 QB system wasn't a real problem, except for the Bert Jones years, but from what I recall, Paul Lyons only got 1 series per half. The parallels between Mac and Miles is really amazing. Both had good/great records, had a sizable portion of the fan base that didn't like them, and had their nemesis in Bama. Hopefully, what befell Mac's successor, won't happen to Mles' when that day finally arrives (RIP Bo Rein).
Posted on 1/29/13 at 12:34 pm to danfraz
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The day after he replaced Dietzel
This.
I remember it as a combination of things. Back in the day Dietzel was handsome and articulate. Cholly Mac was ugly as hell and was the biggest poor mouther in the history of LSU.
Poor Mouther = "I don't know how we will win 4 games this year but we will try."
Cholly did bring in the concept of weight lifting which was rare before him.
Posted on 1/29/13 at 1:00 pm to danfraz
Mac won games much like miles....they were not pretty wins, but i agree that mac had two flaws that drew the ire of the fans every season- how he coached and used quarterbacks, and his coach/assistant coach relationship with "Bear". Bear once said he could take mac's team and beat Alabama. That being said, Mac was a good coach, not a great coach, but a good SEC coach. It s a fact that some coaches lose their effectiveness after a number of successful seasons. Mac did
Posted on 1/29/13 at 4:53 pm to danfraz
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It's always been like that at LSU. And I am serious. Different forums and amount of "want him gones" but some folks were not happy from the start
Saban's genius was he treated the fans like shite from the get-go. And in a cringing, whipped-dog kind of way, the beta males among the fan base respected him for it.
Posted on 1/29/13 at 6:57 pm to danfraz
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The day after he replaced Dietzel
Actually, this is true. Mac did have some big wins, like Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl, but that Ole Miss loss in '69 was big, that was his best team. After 1970, his inability to beat Bama, became more & more of an issue...
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