re: Decision for LSU administration and fan base boils down to one of two options:

I'm good with what we have. Miles is a great man away from the game, I don't think anyone can contest that. What seems to be lost is that while he is not the best (Saban is), he's absolutely the equal to anyone else in CFB. He has this team in position for a 10 win season, with 11 games on the schedule (we should be favored to win out). In other words, in the 10 years that Miles has been here, he has been able to win a BCS title, multiple SEC West and SEC titles, and his down-points have been 8 win seasons. He's thus far been able to rebuild the team following those seasons into 10+ game winners, and he's on the way to doing so again.

The first 8 game pit was 2008, with Lee and Jefferson being freshmen. We hated the QB situation with that group, but he took those guys and by the time they were seniors he made them into an undefeated SEC champ. The next 8 game pit was 2014, with Harris and Fournette being freshman. They are now sophs, and could win 10 this season. We have 1-2 years of at least 1 (Fournette may be interesting if he absolutely wants a title).

The ONLY thing people can whine about is the lack of a national title in that stretch. Everything else, objectively, is great.