re: You can want Les gone without pretending his whole tenure has been miserable

Nah. You think you are the rants police officer.

If you had two thirds of a brain, you'd put some math to work for you.

Let's say I spent 100% of my 5000 posts enlightening you about miles over the last 6 years. It STILL WOULDNT be 50% of your non-sequitur 20000 posts about the guy you defend with some of the weakest excuses for.


Here's an idea: Push fat arse away from keyboard. Take a breather. And stop doing what you would consider policing; when you are really just a self-glorified hall monitor.

Do you have some kind of "pumper" app that alerts you to realist posts? You're here. Quite a bit.

No one claims he is a total failure. But it's no coincidence that he has a good resume and people still want him gone.

Ole Miss clock game, back to back flops against Arkansas, the Tennessee clock game, the Tennessee blown lead, multiple blown 4th quarter leads, 1/9/12, always being the most penalized team, ranking in the 100s in passing offense etc etc.

People hate Miles because he has refused to fix the major flaws in his approach, which are usually responsible for 1-2 losses a year.

When was the last time LSU lost, and you could genuinely say they played and coached a good game and just got beat? Generally the losses are the result of terrible game plans or game management. This is the #1 problem people have with miles.

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We come up with silly judgements like "he out talents other teams is only reason he wins" well recruiting is part of coaching...he gets the talent so why not use it to win? God forbid a coach uses a advantage like lsu has with no instate rival to actually recruit.

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Two things:

a) Any competent coach in America can recruit in Louisiana if he puts the right emphasis on it and hires the right staff.

b) The reason people say this is very obvious. Miles is not an innovator or in-game tactician. He honestly doesn't really seem to do anything. What's his specialty? Surely offensive line play, right? How many players from this position unit have been drafted in the first round? How do we usually perform in this area? How have we performed the last month? Why do we change our blocking scheme all of a sudden by hiring a new assistant when this should be his area of expertise?

He's an OC by trade who runs an antiquated system and gets mediocre production. He generally has terrible clock management and decision making skills in the game. His gameplanning for lesser opponents is poor, and we typically struggle to put inferior teams away. These types of things don't come to mind with two great coaches in the modern era in Saban or Meyer, and they have tremendous talent. So yeah, I'd say people say that for a reason.

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if Flynn doesn't complete the late td against auburn in 2007 that's another late game clock gaff that costs us a game.

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First, you realize that if that pass would have been incomplete the clock would have stopped with 2-3 seconds left on the clock which would have still allowed for a FG attempt to win, right?

Second, you can what if every game (particularly close ones) to death. There's always going to be a handful of plays that break one way or the other that everyone scrutinizes to death. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter because what happened, happened and you'll never know what could have been.

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People hate Miles because he has refused to fix the major flaws in his approach, which are usually responsible for 1-2 losses a year

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While hate is not the ideal word; he had the athletic director duped. We could have let him go to Arkansas and he would be a good coach for them. It would have been a win win.

Instead, the pumpers have switched roles with Ole Miss fans as their season expectations and excuses are now reversed. I cannot explain that mystery.

Any logical LSU fan should agree with this.

NO change needed WE have a fanbase, a large section of a fan base that is happy being Average with Miles. Bama was AVG with Shula they got rid of him, and look where they are now. Bama expected more and that's what they got. We expect LES and that's what we get, LESS./// But we all talk about 07. A 2 loss Championship with Saban players that Miles lost to 2 INFERIOR teams. Kentucky and Arkansas,and all the stars had to line up for us to win with by far the most talented team in the country!!!1 POOR LSU

i basically agree with all you said.

Our players don't play as if they are being coached well, we don't play aggressively like a well coached team does.

We show do many symptoms, such as: coverage breakdowns, penalties, timeouts to get correct formation, delay of game, poor tackling, lack of creating turnovers....you must make the diagnosis. This year isn't an isolated case btw.

We either don't prepare or we don't teach well, or we have bad talent assessment.

I like Les and hope he goes out with a parade. But I personally think he should just move on.