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Honestly...then that's even sillier. So, he was winning enough, but not in a way that we liked...?

No...he was fired because his offense was lacking AND AS A RESULT most felt that we could be doing EVEN BETTER if he either upgraded or was replaced by someone who would run a more potent offense. But make no mistake, he was let go because he wasn't winning enough...with the BAMA game being the most obvious issue.

OH Really???

ESPN - LSU Tigers coach Les Miles fired due to stubbornness offensive

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Les Miles was a one-of-a-kind character who won a lot of games in Baton Rouge, but it was his inability -- or refusal -- to adapt on offense

Sports Illustrated - Beloved but stubborn, Les Miles lost his job because he didn't evolve while LSU's rivals did; Punt, Pass & Pork

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The Mad Hatter isn't LSU's coach anymore, and that feels wrong even though the reasons for his firing were absolutely justified.

He also stood firmly in place as the game changed around him,

He didn't change offensive coordinators, even though Cam Cameron's contract expired after last season. (Instead, Cameron got another deal.) Miles didn't make any dramatic schematic changes to the offense, even though the Tigers have been predictable on that side of the ball for years. He and his offensive staff didn't develop the quarterbacks on the roster

Instead, Miles dug in deeper—convinced that with Leonard Fournette toting the ball, the Tigers didn't need an offense from this century to overcome their competition in the SEC West.

The clock debacle at the end of Saturday's loss at Auburn wasn't the worst part of the defeat for Miles. The worst part is that his team lost a game in which the opponent couldn't even reach the end zone.

CBS Sports - Les Miles lost his job because he refused to evolve like Nick Saban

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The downfall for Les Miles was undoubtedly self-inflicted. No matter how likable he was, how many games he won in the past or how often he ate grass, Miles stubbornly refused to evolve on offense.

FOX Sports - LSU set offensive record in the first game after Les Miles was fired

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Well, if one game was any indication, the Tigers should have gotten rid of Miles sooner.

LSU's offense was nothing short of explosive in the Tigers' 42-7 which included 634 yards of total offense. If that sounds like a lot, it is. It actually set the school record for most yards ever for LSU in an SEC game.

There are a heck of a lot more articles on the REASON Les is no longer the coach.

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Posted by GeauxTigerTM

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Posted on 10/30/17 at 11:05 am to Tiger Ree

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OH Really???

Yes...REALLY. Who knows more about our program...locals who follow it daily or fricking national pundits who drop in to do a piece? Don't we all understand this anytime they either say or write some piece on a guy and they can't even get his damned name right?

So...your thinking here is that LSU would have retained Miles with his exact same record if it had been obtained by virtue of an offense more like Texas Tech's? OK...feel free to think that I guess.

Again...that's idiotic, unless the goal isn't about winning and it's about pure entertainment.

You could make a case that his style LEAD TO a winning percentage that was not good enough, but to say that his numbers were fine...it just wasn't flashy enough is something some supermodel might say about a sports team.