re: Does a 7-5 regular season get Miles fired??

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UNC - had a worse offense than LSU last year and many are questioning the legitimacy of their defense.

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Who is questioning the legitimacy of their defense? As for offense, only 8 teams were worse than LSU last year.

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West Virginia - has no semblance of defense and no offense outside of Noel Devine

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I bet they have a better defense than a crippled Louisiana Tech, or ULL, or Mississippi State. We didn't score over 31 points on any of them. Still, playing at home, we can win this game.

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Florida

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Forget it. No matter who they lost, no matter who gets hurt, no matter what, they will beat LSU, especially in the Swamp.

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Alabama - will be potent on offense, but the defense outside of Donta' Hightower is laughable.

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NO defense is laughable to the #112 offense. Besides, you are deluded if you think they won't have a better defense than we do. Again, like with Florida, just forget about this one from now on. No way in hell, under any circumstances, even with divine intervention, does LSU beat Alabama again while Les Miles and Nick Saban are looking at each other from opposite sides of the field.

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Along with Ole Miss and Tennessee, are about our equals. All of these games could go either way, and home field will probably be a big factor in all four of them.

We have two games we cannot win, two we probably will not win, and four that can legitimately go either way. To expect better than 3-5 in those eight games is unreasonable. That's splitting the tossups 2-2 and splitting the two we probably won't win 1-1. That's five losses right there, before we even talk about a Mississippi State team that came within one inch of beating us and a Vanderbilt team that took us into the fourth quarter within one score at our place, both last year.

7-5 or worse is more likely than 8-4 or better.

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2 years of mediocrity they have given LSU

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That's your words and you are welcome to them, but they aren't mine and LSU was housed in the Top 20 at years end and not the mediocre 20.

Spin it all you want, but being ranked in the Top 20 of all college football teams is not a negative and neither is it an example of mediocrity.

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As for the "voice of reason", that's in your sig line.

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Dude, you need to take a xanax and step away from the keyboard... As far as the sig line, we will beat one of those teams this year and you will have your crow served up along with all the other rantards predicting a 5 to 7 win season.

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Choctaw:
....and Miles is one of the most successful coaches in LSU history.

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It would be hard not to be looking at what we had in the 90's and the way CFB has changed. Give Charlie Mac three rent a wins (including two a year against in-state schools that have never ever beaten LSU and Mac would have never been able to schedule) and his winning percentage would be great too. He would have been laughed at for suggesting it. You virtually have to petition the NCAA not to have to go to a bowl today. In years past you had to earn it. For the same reason all kinds of mediocre coaches are setting win and percentage records at their schools. Your argument is inflated BS.

Drop the La cupcakes and Miles is 6-5 and 7-4 over the last two years, beaten by Nutt for three years in a row and losing 8 SEC games. Congrats on that winning percentage.

Miles is a good guy and not the worst coach LSU has ever had by a long shot but he is drowning right now and all the bogus arguments for his excellence in the world are not going to help him. He could well be the fifth best coach in the SEC West.

Time will tell. I only wish Les could tell time.

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No one can deny this program has been going in the wrong direction on the field the last 2 years.

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7-5 in the regular season, 7th in the SEC, Peach Bowl, and non-ranked.

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9-3 in the regular season, 3rd in the SEC, Capital One Bowl, and nationally ranked.

Where is the "wrong direction"?

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And in some parts. A laughing stock of the country.

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we're discussing the team dorky_v, not the fans like you

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Uh, Rice and Tulane have beaten LSU. One year Rice was LSU's only loss. We also play Troy who has never beaten us and Middle Tenn State, who has never beaten us, and Texas Somebody who has never beaten us etc. Miles can't keep his job by continuing to pad his record with these guys. You can't possibly believe that the eras are comparable. That would be just silly.

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Your point was Miles pads his stats (so does every coach by the way) by playing cupcakes...all i did was point out the Mcclendon also played cupcakes. Miles isn't the first LSU coach to schedule easier schools...remember UAB?

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For the same reason all kinds of mediocre coaches are setting win and percentage records at their schools

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Mack Brown over Royal at Texas
Bob Stoops over Wilkinson at OU
Tressel over Hayes at OSU
Coker over Davis at Miami
Petersen over just about everybody at Boise

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Yea...those are some real "mediocre" coachess right there.

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So bowls don't count as wins. Tell Joe Paterno to delete 'em. Coker had lots of them too. That's the point.

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I really don't understand your argument here...ofcourse they count as wins. I don't even know what your point with the bowls was in the first place.

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No, they have not been subpar and we won't fire him. He's had two decent Les Miles years. I think you'll find the last two year to be par for Les. And he'll have a chance to prove it because he won't get fired till 2012. Combination of the buyout being gone and 4 mediocre seasons. By then he will have earned it.

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Thank you Nostradamus.

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As far as the sig line, we will beat one of those teams this year and you will have your crow served up along with all the other rantards predicting a 5 to 7 win season.

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I hope so and wish it were so, but unfortunately, you will be deleting that sig line very quietly in a few months when it becomes obvious that I was right, and no one will point it out, certainly not me.

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Some idiots teaching school in the early 20th century thought Albert Einstein was retarded, too.

Moral: When an idiot calls you retarded, you're probably not.

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i didn't say you're retarded...i said your analogies are. You jumped to that conclusion all by yourself.