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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.

It's idiotic to think that LSU wouldn't have done better record wise if they ran Texas Tech's offense. Miles refusal to adapt the O is why he is gone plain and simple. The clock gaff at the end of the Auburn game didn't help either.

Here was Les himself in 2017 on his phenomenal changes he was anticipating.

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The Tigers at the time of his firing had a sputtering offense that came up short in losses to Wisconsin and Auburn. Miles figured a turnaround would come as quarterback Danny Etling continued to gain experience after the team benched Brandon Harris in the opener, he said.

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"Brandon Harris we felt like was going to continue to develop, and for whatever reason, he did not take the strides that we would have loved to have him take," Miles said. "Danny Etling was going to be the guy. We turned to him."

Miles anticipated the games at Lambeau Field against Wisconsin and on the road at Auburn would be closely contested. After that, "I really felt like we were in great position to continue to evolve."

LSU offense 'always was in position to do well,' Les Miles says in radio

He wasn't going to change a thing. He was relying on Brandon Harris to evolve.

Or maybe he just doesn't know what the word "evolve" means.

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Posted by GeauxTigerTM

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Posted on 10/30/17 at 12:04 pm to Tiger Ree

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Miles refusal to adapt the O is why he is gone plain and simple.

Only in so far as it effected the record.

At the end of the day, the issue for any coach (and for any fan with at least half a brain) is the final win-loss record. As such, Miles was fired because his averaging 10 wins a season was no longer seen as good enough at LSU given the resources available, both in terms of financial and infrastructure and in terms of players. 5 straight to BAMA and our former coach was additional icing on the cake.

But...and here's the good point...were it not for a handful of small missed opportunities, many of which were defensive in regards to losses to BAMA, Miles and his 1970's inept offense WOULD STILL BE HERE and he'd be here because he'd have more hardware because of more wins. That shitty offense was THIS CLOSE to handing LSU many more wins.

Because at the end of the day, only a fricking idiot isn't happy about winning if the winning isn't done in a way that is the most entertaining.

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