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re: LSU's Miles is 7th highest paid head coach
Posted on 11/7/13 at 6:21 pm to Geauxgurt
Posted on 11/7/13 at 6:21 pm to Geauxgurt
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Les Miles taken over LSU in 2000 instead of Saban,
I give Nick lots of credit for what happened at LSU starting with 2000.
I also credit ME, TAF, and the powers that be at LSU for finally waking up and joining the college football arms race. Lots of positive factors came into play in 1999-2000 and on for LSU football that had never been there before. Nick was but one.
Who knows what Les could have done at that period cause LSU was pouring coins into the football program like never before.
Nick was good for LSU, but I don't think he was the only coach in the game who could have won big at LSU given all the positive factors that came into play at that time for LSU.
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Posted on 11/7/13 at 6:30 pm to Lonnie4LSU
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Who knows what Les could have done at that period cause LSU was pouring coins into the football program like never before.
Nick was good for LSU, but I don't think he was the only coach in the game who could have won big at LSU given all the positive factors that came into play at that time for LSU.
I am not knocking Miles ability. I just think Saban was the type of coach that LSU needed to get going. He was relentless unlike Miles and nothing else mattered to him but the team succeeding if only to feed his own ego. His approach is and always will be much more effective at building a program IMO.
That said, Miles' demeanor and methods fit well into what LSU needed after that phase, but a lot more was forced on Miles and his hands tied in the beginning including maintaining Jimbo and preventing him from hiring his buddy Bill Clay as DC.
I simply think Les' approach won't continue to work as the player leadership isn't there like it was instilled before and he's not the guy to instill it from scratch. I do think the guy would do anything for his players and they love him for that, but sometimes that isn't enough to succeed at the levels expected of him by most fans.
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