re: Do you know people that still think Les Miles "sucks"?

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Im not arguing Lee was an All American, but... below average QB's dont make NFL teams. Just sayin.. Nor do they "manage" thier team to a 9-0 record, especially playing the tough schedule LSU had last season. Just sayin...

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Really? Is this your first year watching CFB? below average QB's don't lead their team to undeafeated seasons? Last chance to take that stupid statement back...before I start asking you to remember... Tee Martin, Oklahoma's qb from 2003, White, Crouch from Nebraska, Ohio State's qb from 2002, his name escapes me, Leake from 2006 fla. The list goes on and on. Not only have below average qb's been on teams that had great years...some of those qb's have won Heisman fricken TROPHIES!

It's just like here on the rant, you have some great posters like myself, and then you have the below average posters like you who only post dumb stuff.... the dumb ones like yours show up on the rant just as consistenly as my uniformly wonderful posts do...go figure.

To those who say Miles is a bad coach (and I know many):

How are we winning games at an unprecedented rate, for LSU and for SEC football? Do you really think we have talent so superior as to win in spite of coaching? Even over teams that rank higher in recruiting?

If Miles is only maintaining Saban's program, and if that means he can be an average coach, then (1)please list the other average coaches that have done so. The coaches that followed legends at Miami, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Alabama-- all failed to do so. And (2), please demonstrate where we are still running Saban's schemes, using Saban's players, etc. We are not. We are using LSU's facilities, and Saban no doubt was the major force behind obtaining those, but he has NO influence on day-to-day issues at all 7 years later.


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But if Miles had to pick teams in the schoolyard against 10 other SEC coaches and just coach a football game when everybody else's players are as good as his....I'd be lying if I said I thought he'd win

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I hear this stuff all the time, too. Except, that is not what college football coaches do.If you want to say that there are better gameday coaches, then that is valid. But that does not mean he is a bad coach. The mistakes made on a game day may one day cause a game to be lost, but mistakes in recruiting, program management, hiring and firing coordinators, and maintaining a mindset within a program can cause loss of a program requiring years to undo. People act like being a good "manager and recruiter" is a bad thing. Hell, it is the MOST important thing.

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who only post dumb stuff

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Your eloquence highlights your intelligence and superior posting skills.

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sucks as a coach but a top tier recruiter

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His record says otherwise. I hope you don't subscribe to the theory that says good recruits can be very successful without good coaching. It just doesn't happen that way. Example: How do you explain Texas' recent struggles, despite having highly ranked classes, supposedly very talented players? A team with lots of raw talent, but poor to mediocre coaching will lose to a team with good talent (even if not as good as the other team's) and good coaching most of the time. Miles' record against teams with good/competitive talent shows there is a lot of good (and often underappreciated) coaching going on also.

Miles isn't perfect, but neither is any other coach out there. But to say he "sucks" as a coach is to ignore reason.

I dont think anyone really thinks Les Miles sucks as a football coach. Some people may not like him personally however I think very few people would say he is a bad football coach. That said, Les did perform miserably in the BCS game against Alabama and allowed Nick Saban to humiliate LSU. Les is going to have to make up for that disaster of a game to his players and the fans. He will get another chance to do that this year. What does it mean if you have a great year and your head coach does not give his own team a chance to win the biggest and most important game of the year?

I'm sorry, but I saw a hell of a lot of players get their butts whooped in that game.
Coaching might well have been bad. Play calling looked unimaginative, but then again a whole bunch of plays lasted about 1 second before the Bama DLine was all over our backfield. Not sure what plays we'e called those times.

Bottom line is it was a team loss. And we weren't beating Bama that day regardless of who played QB. That game was lost the day Bama was picked to rematch us. Too much emotional letdown for our players-- we beat them in a real, real tough game and we were supposed to be done with them.-- and too much emotional high for Bama.

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Coaching might well have been bad.

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Worst coaching I've ever witnessed. I don't know anyone that thinks otherwise save a few of the most diehard purple and gold kool-aid drinkers.

Still, its not fair to judge a guy based on one game...even if it was the most important one.