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re: A requiem and history of The Golden Era of LSU
Posted on 10/5/17 at 9:54 pm to LSUgal1988
Posted on 10/5/17 at 9:54 pm to LSUgal1988
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Posted on 10/5/17 at 10:18 pm to LSUgal1988
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LSUgal1988
IWHI
Posted on 10/5/17 at 11:14 pm to LSUgal1988
Was skimming it, but since Delmore says you're full of shite I have to read it now.
Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:08 am to LSUgal1988
Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:26 am to LSUgal1988
73% accurate, some sad by true.
Other than the Saban natty when I was a student, my favorite part of your writing was:
"LSU goes on to defeat 8 ranked teams, including 3 teams that finished in the top 5. It is the greatest regular season in college football history. "
Other than the Saban natty when I was a student, my favorite part of your writing was:
"LSU goes on to defeat 8 ranked teams, including 3 teams that finished in the top 5. It is the greatest regular season in college football history. "
Posted on 10/6/17 at 8:30 am to LSUgal1988
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As Miles leads LSU to another national championship in 2007, Saban struggles to rebuild a depleted Alabama program, including a humiliating loss to the University of Louisiana.
well done Posted on 10/6/17 at 9:39 am to LSUgal1988
Great work! Sadly, the simpletons on this forum will never appreciate it.
I do, however, disagree with your assessment that Miles was the driving force of greatness. He was a mediocre HC at a mediocre school prior to LSU. I think hes an okay coach and a phenomenal recruiter and puts together a good staff including the one he left behind in Stillwater. As much as players and his subordinates seem to love the guy he never really listened to their expertise and let them do their job. I dont think he delegated game planning and game-time duties and decisions very well and his stubborn refusal to change or heed others advice was ultimately his undoing. These points are really the only criticisms I ever heard of the man and rightfully so.
A Les Miles would have been good-enough to great in most circumstances and eras but to beat the best in the SEC required someone willing to think outside the box and attack an opponents weaknesses and thats just not how the man is built.
I think most success in life is a rare culmination of hard work, positive attitude and opportunity/circumstance. Miles brought the attitude and hard work and found himself lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time and he made the most of it based on his abilities. To get over the hump required just a little more creativity than he was born with. Thats not his fault.
I do, however, disagree with your assessment that Miles was the driving force of greatness. He was a mediocre HC at a mediocre school prior to LSU. I think hes an okay coach and a phenomenal recruiter and puts together a good staff including the one he left behind in Stillwater. As much as players and his subordinates seem to love the guy he never really listened to their expertise and let them do their job. I dont think he delegated game planning and game-time duties and decisions very well and his stubborn refusal to change or heed others advice was ultimately his undoing. These points are really the only criticisms I ever heard of the man and rightfully so.
A Les Miles would have been good-enough to great in most circumstances and eras but to beat the best in the SEC required someone willing to think outside the box and attack an opponents weaknesses and thats just not how the man is built.
I think most success in life is a rare culmination of hard work, positive attitude and opportunity/circumstance. Miles brought the attitude and hard work and found himself lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time and he made the most of it based on his abilities. To get over the hump required just a little more creativity than he was born with. Thats not his fault.
This post was edited on 10/6/17 at 9:40 am
Posted on 10/6/17 at 9:42 am to LSUgal1988
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This story has the makings of a Shakespearean tragedy.
A sleeping giant is woken by an unlikeable OCD perfectionist who wins a national championship for the school, its first in half a century, back when segregation was still the rule.
All the way across the country, a paper champ is claiming the same title. In that western cadre is a rambunctious, shirt-is-optional recruiting coordinator. He brought in some of the best classes in the nation. Along the way he also recruited such players as Frostee Rucker, who left Colorado State under, shall we say, dubious circumstances, and Reggie Bush, whose recruitment led to the revocation of USCs title and 20+ wins, not to mention the most severe sanctions in football since SMU.
2004 ends with joy for USC, blowing out OU and embarrassment for the Tigers with a last second Hail Mary like loss to Iowa. Saban decides to give LSU an unpleasant Christmas gift and test his toes in the NFL.
That same off-season, Ole Miss, LSU's perennial rival, decides to fire its most successful coach in some time, Cutcliffe, and go with Orgeron. Orgeron, who had no head coaching or coordinator experience, is seen as a coach with tremendous upside. Pete Carroll has nothing but praise and USC seemingly at the time is the dynasty du jour. Nothing at that time is known about the program's lack of institutional control, largely seen as a result of the recruiting in the early 2000s.
Meanwhile, LSU is also welcoming a new coach in the midst of the worst natural disaster in US history. Despite a less than well received maiden voyage at home, Miles leads LSU to an impressive 11-2 season, which many LSU fans saw as a disappointment, this even though it would have been his predecessor's second best season. The season includes a 40-7 win over Orgeron, already feeling the heat as Ole Miss skipper. Miles would go 3-0 against Orgeron before Orgeron is fired after accumulating a 3-21 SEC record at Ole Miss.
Saban, whose style doesn't translate in the NFL, and whose choice to take Dante Culpepper over future Hall of Famer Drew Brees, knows his days in Miami are numbered. He is courted by Alabama, a program in disarray, led by son of the legendary Dolphins coach. Alabama had already been turned down by their first choice, Rich Rodriguez.
As Miles leads LSU to another national championship in 2007, Saban struggles to rebuild a depleted Alabama program, including a humiliating loss to the University of Louisiana. A late season 2OT loss to Arkansas has some LSU fans bitter, knowing that LSU only made it to the title game thanks to a shocking upset of Rodriguez led West Virginia by unranked Pitt.
There remains a strong Saban contingent at LSU. Miles has his worst season in 08 at 8-5, including an OT loss to then #1 Alabama. Alabama is on the up and the program Saban built at LSU, Miles had then destroyed, according to the growing Saban faction.
LSU 24
OU 7
The score in the early 4rth quarter of the BCS NC between the LSU Fighting Tigers versus the Oklahoma Sooners..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................WHY WAS THE FIELD GOAL TAKEN OFF THE SCORE?
Posted on 10/6/17 at 6:25 pm to LSUgal1988
Golden Era of LSU Football
Born: September 24, 2000
Died: September 30, 2017
Born: September 24, 2000
Died: September 30, 2017
This post was edited on 10/6/17 at 6:45 pm
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