re: Seeing a few articles today criticizing les miles’ handling of pooka assault

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He allowed JJ back on the team and ruined the rest of the 2011 season

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Did he now? What do you think happens in Tuscaloosa after the first 2 picks by Lee had we not had JJ on the bench that game ready to come in and NOT turn the ball over?

Say what you will about the NCG, but we'd have never gotten there had we lost to BAMA in the regular season and all LSU fans know this deep down. And even you guys that STILL have Lee's dick buried in your throats know that if he had to stick it out in Tuscaloosa we don't get out of there alive. We were not getting a second at bat against them like they got against us.

Much like our resident OSU tourist who can't stop pretending Burrow is a cross between Tom Brady and Thor, the folks that failed to come to grips with Lee's shortcomings have always forced others to seem as if they're bashing the guy. I've ALWAYS said, from Day one, that the kid got put into a TERRIBLE situation by Miles and the staff that 2008 season. Not only were he and Jefferson no where NEAR ready to play any significant time (they would not have had to for two seasons were it not for Perriloux getting booted...which is what I said back on page fricking one), but Lee specifically was asked to do things very few seasoned college QB's should be doing...namely throwing the ball as much as he did in our own territory when it's clear he was struggling. They set the kid up for failure and they all but broke him that year. for frick's sake...we had LSU fans CHEERING that year when he got hurt in Tiger Stadium and Miles was FORCED to take him out in favor of...you guessed it...JJ!

Truth is, given their limitations and how things went down in 2008 and our lack of development of QB's, neither was ever going to fully reach their potential and we ended up needing BOTH of them from time to time. Refusing to accept this has kept far too many people trapped in the past.