re: I think we finally have the reason Miles called the Wisconsin game at Lambeau the way he

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So glad I didn’t pay the money to travel to that game.

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In spite of Les refusing to change, it was a great trip. I flew into Chicago, scoped out the Cubs, stayed in Milwaukee when Harley Davidson was hosting some festival, and thoroughly enjoyed the Museum at Lambeau.

Bob Barton and Vicki Crochet, LSU's counsel, had already told Alleva that LSU could not fire Miles for cause.

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I was in agreement with your basic premise until you gave these 2 examples. How about just the overall refusal to modernize an offense? Just fire him because he was a coach just not doing his job.
But to use 2005 Tenn? After Katrina with a team physically, emotionally and mentally toasted. That game the whole program gets a solid pass for. My gosh.
And 2013? We threw the ball all over the field.
Pick any number of a hundred other reasons and I’m with you.

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I understand and respect your point. However, In regards to 2005. Miles on the field coaching blew that game. If the team was spent from all the goings-on with Katrina, we would not have been up 21-0 at the half. Also, we would not have won every other game until the SEC championship. NO! Tenn. was on-field coaching.

I will use the 2013 Bama game for the next point. We had an NFL QB and 2 ALL PRO WR's. Even though Zach threw for a 70% completion rate we only threw the ball 23 times. Jeremy Hill was a freaking stud but only had 42 yards. I will quote the WV coach when we played in 2011 "When you get into the game you have to call the plays that work". He said that in regards to being balanced against LSU's defense. Miles was too dumb to figure that out.

Miles wasted more talent than any coach I have followed at LSU. I went to school with Ruffin Rodrigue and he sold me on LSU in JR High. I have been a fan since. That was the early 80's.

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Even sunshine pumpers would accept a firing for caus

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I don't know. Many of the MOF's are delusional.

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I think we finally have the reason Miles called the Wisconsin game at Lambeau the way he did and Fournette's frustration in that game. It was a big FU to Alleva.

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Dumb things I read on the rant today.

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He made as much sense as Joe Biden, mumbling incoherent nonsense.

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This is a good comparison. Both somehow made it to the highest level in spite of themselves.

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So he threw a game to send a message to the AD for something that happened 3 years prior. Solid post OP

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Yeah, the OP's post might make sense if there wasn't a 3 year gap in between events.


Now, if you want to say it was an FU to Alleva because of what happened the season before then MAYBE I could listen to that argument. But there wasn't just a "recommendation" that LSU fire Miles after the 2015 season. Alleva actually TRIED to do so. His team carried him off the field in the final game of 2015 for Godsakes. By that time whatever 2013 email/recommendation that was out there was meaningless. He already knew he was on thin ice going into 2016 so I doubt he would try to "throw" the opening game.

That game vs. Wisconsin was nothing more than one of the final acts of hubris and stubbornness from Miles that eventually ended his LSU career. As he did from every point on following 2008 (except 2013 when he knew his defense sucked) he figured if he had great talent (he did) and had a great defense (he did) then he could do "just enough" offensively while being almost totally risk averse to win the game. He almost won the Wisconsin game. Then almost won the Auburn game. Get at least one of those wins and Les might have remained the HC. Unfortunately, his days of doing just enough to satisfy LSU fans finally came to an end in 2016.

It wasn't an FU to Alleva. It was a stubborn fool REFUSING to accept that he needed to evolve to take the program up to the last rung of the championship ladder.

Alleva couldn’t lead a pack of ants to a picnic.

We should not have lost to Wisconsin. Such an embarrassing game...