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re: Did O really say he doesn't expect to win championships?
Posted on 9/18/17 at 4:49 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 9/18/17 at 4:49 pm to Ace Midnight
I supported Les for the longest time, really until the Wisconsin loss. But the Orgeron hire I was against from the beginning, it's just an insane move. Then I let myself suckered in by narrative and optimism and just the excitement of college football...only for every worry and concern I had to come flying to fruition during this game. If you read about his Ole Miss tenure, they're almost identical so far. I don't think he's learned anything.
If we had hire any sort of up and comer, or someone who had their own offensive style or whatever they wanted to implement I would be all for waiting. But that isn't the case. This is a man who failure has followed anytime he has risen above position coach, and who only got the job through a confluence of events and fan guillibility that would seem unbelievable if you saw them in a move. It is a unique situation where strident concern and a short leash from the fans isn't just warranted, it might save the program.
And you seem very rational my friend and I respect that. However, there are definitely numerous fans who love O purely he's from Louisiana and he's one of them and he says all the right things. And there has already been a shift in expectations that would not occur were it not his unique hold on a certain segment of the fan base. I would love nothing more than to go 11-1, and certainly there is a narrative one can spin about last night where it's injuries and bad luck and a young team on the road against an elite opponent. But that's not the narrative I'm buying. Not when our coach has history has having one of the most infamous disasters of a tenure in college football history.
Posted on 9/18/17 at 5:00 pm to tigerfan88
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However, there are definitely numerous fans who love O purely he's from Louisiana and he's one of them and he says all the right things.
But I don't think those were the folks calling for Les' head, though. That's what I'm saying. Those folks may have lost their taste for Miles' brand of football, but by and large they weren't calling for his head back in 2005 and so forth.
Les' going mid-season was driven by the negas - you don't abort firing the guy, to then fire him 6 games later, mid-season - and you definitely don't do that to a 77% winner, NC winning coach - UNLESS you are damned sure your hire is a homerun.
And you absolutely don't do it to replace him with his own RC/DL coach - who has no record of success other than as an interim head coach, recruiter and position coach.
We did all of those things. The negas are reaping what they sowed (ETA: No - that's not right - we're ALL reaping what the negas sowed). And if you fire O now, you just reduce us to the football equivalent of Guatemala - hire a coach for one game. If he wins, he keeps the job. If he loses, he's fired.
If it wasn't such an obscene image, it would be laughable.
This post was edited on 9/18/17 at 5:03 pm
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