re: Les Miles

Well if you think the ceiling for LSU is consistently 3rd in the west with 3-5 losses a year with no QB developement and an offense that was highly predictable and easily stopped by a top 20 defense.

In retrospect yes Miles is better than O as of right now. Maybe O rights the ship and LSU takes off. Its doubtful, but still possible.

If we would have landed Tom Herman or Jimbo Fisher I doubt we would be in this perdicament as both have a track record of coaching.

When I watch LSU it almost seems like half the players are unmotivated so I immediately blame the coach. The defense was horrible aganst Troy and MSU so I question if Aranda was the mastermind or just the compliment to Miles.

I would have loved to keep Les as the defensive coordinator with Aranda, but that would never have happened.

The reason Miles is gone was the poor offensive performance when a team could contain the run. We chose to do something different when he didnt fire his OC.

O is a band-aid that we didnt peel off at the end of the year because it stopped the bleeding. Now the wound is infected because it was covered too long.

Edit. As others have posted every successful program has a head coach that can run one side of the ball. There are not to many head coaches in the modern game (1995 and up) that are managers.