re: How critical is this season for Miles?

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No Gerry didn't coach in 2001 or 2004 at LSU. Why would you bring up Big Gerry?

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Who else do you think was coaching those teams? Fidel Castro? Oliver North? Patty Hearst?

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That wasn't the reason for Coker's dismissal

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There wasn't one reason. There were reasons.

"There were a lot of issues, but certainly the direction the program was going was certainly one," Dee said. "I wouldn't say that was totally it, but if you want to look in that direction, that was one. There were disappointments. There were opportunities, I think, to play better and we didn't. It all comes to the head coach."

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Sure he had 1 mediocre/poor season, but on the whole, he had much better coaching career than Butch Davis

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What you intentionally fail to mention whenever you bring up Butch Davis is the sanctions imposed on them during his stay there for transgressions that happen under previous regimes. Why? Because it doesn't help any argument you may make in support of Big Larry. You'll make excuses/explanations, when it is convenient for you.

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Coker went 60-15 at Miami, more than acceptable at any College in the US.

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But, the program wasn't going in the right direction. He might not have been canned had they won 10 games that year.

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Here ya go Peaches

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Why are you using that website?

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Frick you PJ

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AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.........

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You pulled for Bama & your butt buddy Saban last year, and your on record doing so. Blow it out your Big 'ol Roll Tide arse.

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SABAN went 12-0 and won the SEC West. Lost to the NC team and DIDN'T show up against Utah. But he is still a better coach.

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Yep, Reason(s). 1. LSU Tunnel Fight & 2. FIU Fight "Reasons".

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And a 6 loss season with losses to powers like Ga. Tech, Virginia, and Maryland.

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Were they Draconian style sanctions?

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Depends on what you think Draconian is.

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Exactly how many Scholarships were lost & in what time frame?

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From what I've read, Miami took away 7 of it's own scholarships and the NCAA demanded 24 be lost over a 2 year frame.

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Could he not field a Top Notch team with Top Players at 'da U in the mid-late 90's?

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There is no telling what you consider top notch.

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You are trying to make excuses.

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No, I'm providing information that is critical to the Miami program under Butch Davis. And in times like this, you don't like it. Larry Coker wasn't dealing with sanctions like that. Shouldn't he be more likely to field a top notch team in 2006 as opposed to Butch Davis in 1996?

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correct, when your Team makes National Headlines & Television News for 2 Nasty Fights, it's the program is headed in the wrong direction

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And when you are losing 6 games.

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Doesn't matter if he went undefeated, he was gone for that reason.

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I seriously doubt, as I'm sure most sane people do, that he would have been gone had they went undefeated.

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But I would have never thought we'd lose 5 of them last year along with 3 at home

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Me neither. But I never would have thought we'd have gotten the shite QB play throughout the season that we did. Looking back, knowing what we know about how the QB situation turned out, I'd have taken 8-5 with a Peach Bowl win every single day.

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I agree that we were probably more talented. What I meant was that there were only 2 teams that could even be argued to have more talent. And I think we win that game if it's in Tiger Stadium. All things being so equal, they lucked out by having that game in the Swamp

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This I agree with. LSU would have beaten OSU by the same margin as FLA did!!!!

I will say this. Its not how you start, it how you finish. 1969 LSU team is the best off all-time IMO. The way they were playing they would have beaten Texas in the Cotton Bowl. The 2001 team at the end of the year was as hot as fish-grease, And I think they could have beaten Miami.

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Frick you PJ..You pulled for Bama & your butt buddy Saban last year, and your on record doing so.

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Screw you PJ.

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I have never seen another fan base so eager to get rid of a good coach and a great person after only 1 bad season

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they've been eager to get rid of him since 2005...

Not responding to all the others, will just say I would keep Miles until further notice. None of this means crap.

But I never would have thought we'd have gotten the shite QB play throughout the season that we did. Looking back, knowing what we know about how the QB situation turned out, I'd have taken 8-5 with a Peach Bowl win every single day.
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Don't forget about giving-up a TD/game more a game. RP would have been worth at least 1 maybe 2 games, but IMO we still would have lost to GA, FLA and Olepiss. Since 2003 in the SEC we went from 11 ppg to 31 ppg. There were so many long drives against us. MANY of which started in the first quarter when we were fresh.