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Then name the magic mystery coach we should have hired instead? Who was available in January 2005 that would have done so much better? The only coaches that you could credibly argue would have done better had just left for the Dolphins job and taken the Florida job a month earlier. You are letting MDS get the best of you, he was flawed yes, but he did a very good job here, denying that is having impossible standards

Truthfully I don’t remember who else was available. Meyer maybe? I do know that Les Miles wasn’t a hot name and maybe as good or bad as anyone out there. Jimbo Fisher was still on staff and I don’t think he’d do worse with the talent we had.

The losses in 2005 and 2006 with that talent were head scratchers. Comparing the 06 Auburn team to a nick Saban recruited defense that beat Florida in 09 is truly a stretch. Auburn lost to Arkansas at home if I recall. I didn’t even bring up Tennessee but that was another one where Miles couldn’t adjust. Miles didn’t do badly but for the levels of talent Saban left him, he was at best an ok care taker. For a little while anyway. Everything you’ve posted is what people rationalized to keep miles around as LSU as a program regressed ever so slowly. He wasn’t a great hire by any stretch.

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Posted by siliconvalleytiger

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Member since Apr 2004

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Posted on 10/3/21 at 11:11 am to Fat Bastard

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yup. that is a no brainer. he shoulda had a couple more nattys. had natty material in 05, 06,07, 2011, 2012, 2016

I’d leave out 2016 due to QB situation and 2012 due to the NFL exodus. So the rest was all Saban talent except 2011 and we know what happened there.

People want fans to be happy with whatever miles was able to produce with the “remember the 90s mindset” but that’s settling. LSU should have been better those years for what we had for talent and relative to what other SEC teams had. No doubt in my mind.

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