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re: For the uninformed: its NOT because of 3 losses
Posted on 11/26/15 at 11:31 pm to tiggerthetooth
Posted on 11/26/15 at 11:31 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Its 4 years of lackadaisical, unorganized, and uninspired football, combined with a slow decline in performance, and a CONTINUED stagnancy from the offense.
Alabama went 30-2-1 from 1964-1966. They won 2 national championships and 3 SEC titles during that run. From 1967-1970 they went a combined 28-15-2. That includes a combined 14-11 record in the SEC. We got blown out by USC (21-42), Ole Miss (23-48), and Tennessee (0-24) in 1970. We got blown out by Tennessee (14-41) and Auburn (26-49) in 1969. We got blown out by Missouri (10-35) in the Gator Bowl at the end of the 1968 season.
Those were some mediocre seasons that followed one of the best runs Alabama had ever seen up to that time. What if Alabama had fired Bryant after those mediocre seasons like many fans wanted instead of retaining him as history records them doing? We wouldn't have finished out the 70s like we did. From 1971-1979, Alabama finished with a combined record of 97-11. In that total is included 3 national championships and 8 SEC championships.
I'm not trying to equate Les Miles to Bear Bryant but the man shouldn't be fired for entering a slump. He could very well finish 9-3 this year and will be returning a lot of starters in 2016.
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Posted on 11/26/15 at 11:40 pm to RollTide1987
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RollTide1987
Bear was smart and changed his scheme.
Les will not do this.
Bringing in a new OC will not work either, it would be Miles' 5th.
It's just time.
Posted on 11/26/15 at 11:47 pm to RollTide1987
Are you perhaps leaving out that those are the years coincidentally, that it took to convince Bear to allow Black players on his team? I don't know but those years do look close to when he was destroyed by a USC team which started many black athletes and convinced Bear he needed to evolve. Not what Miles has done...
Posted on 11/27/15 at 5:41 am to RollTide1987
quote:it doesn't feel like a slump, though. Les miles teams are largely the same as they've always been. Difference is, in the first half of les' tenure, there was a mystique to LSU. We had the magic, we made the plays, we won the close games. That aura is dead. What's left to see is the disorganization, unimaginative offense, penalties, and our annual prime time humiliation against Alabama.
I'm not trying to equate Les Miles to Bear Bryant but the man shouldn't be fired for entering a slump.
It just doesn't matter anymore how many starters LSU returns if miles is the coach. It will be the same team he always runs out there: talented enough to win 8 games before a game is played, a couple tough games and a couple hard games, can they split those and go 10-2? Good bowl matchup.
Every year, Les miles teams start the season incapable of winning a title bc of his disdain/neglect/incompetence of the QB position. But hey, why use a QB when you can win 10 games a year playing 1970s big ten 3-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust football?
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