re: If you consider les miles a "great" coach, please

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I seem to remember LSU teams that played their best ball as the season progressed, and/or in November.

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2000 - After losing @Auburn and UAB at home (yes that UAB), and a shellacing at the Swamp, we did win 4 in a row through Kentucky,and the rest of the West, until Arkansas. Barely showed up in Little Rock, lost 14-3

2001 - Great Season, we finished strong, won 6 games in row. Have to go back to Mac in 1973 when we won 9 in a row (but Mac was somehow not a great coach) However, how is 2001 superior to 2006 where we won 7 in a row? Oh, that's right, we won the SEC in 2001. But we lost 3 games in 2001 and only 2...never mind.


2002 - Lost 4 out the last 6. Way to "dominate" the state of Alabama, getting beat 62-7 combined (I was at the Bama game, and I "seem" to remember that it was November. And we did not "dominate".) So it's better to get destroyed by Bama 31-0, than to lose to a (then) undefeated, #1 Bama in OT? Okay, a loss is a loss...

2003 - What can I say - great season, great team. Heck I've already forgotten the loss to Florida at home.

2004 - It's been covered. I will say, finishing the regular season with six straight wins was pretty good.

MILES:

2005 - Didn't lose a game in October or November. Did lose the SEC-CG to UGA, badly. Did have struggles against Florida (SHOCKING), Auburn, Bama and Arkansas, freakin' pushover SEC teams. However, winning 9 games in a row for the first time since 1973 should count for something, huh? Oh, that's right, Saban's players, talent trumps coaching, etc.

2006 - Did play badly at Auburn, (Saban lost every game @ Auburn, and to this day has not won a football game @ Auburn) and lost to Florida in early October. Did finish with 7 straight wins.

2007 - Yes the OT losses to Kentucky and Arkansas were unfortunate and late. We were #1 both times we played and didn't play like it in those games. However victories over Florida, Auburn, Alabama and Tennessee in the same season NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE. Can that, along with the SEC and BCS championships go a little way to easing the pain? BTW, LSU has a losing record against Florida, Alabama and Tennessee, probably the only three teams that we play regularly that have that advantage over us. And we just barely have a winning record over Auburn.


2008 was bad, what can I tell you. We will finish 7-6 or 8-5 and call it a bad season. Even though I sat through a lot of losses in the 90s, I will call it bad because of the how.

But I'm not going to sit back and listen to how great the previous coach was, when the current coach, overall, has outperformed him in every objective measure available.

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Honestly, tell me why that 40 second span was good coaching. I'll hang up and listen.

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I'm sure you've heard this all before but here goes:

You have 3 options the way I see it.
1) run a safe play to center the field goal kick.
2) Say "screw it" and let the clock run down where you call your timeout with X seconds left to go (if Tubby doesn't use his) to kick the field goal.
3) run a play to the endzone. An incompletion stops the clock where you can decide what to do from these same three options.

For the sake of brevity I'm going to leave out all of the other crazier options like throwing short of the goal line and such.

Obviously Miles chose 3 while you totally disagree because it took too long and the ball could have hovered in the air for 4 or 5 seconds more.

So Miles' decision gives us two chances to score while you decision puts the entire game on one play. Tony Romo would say take a shot at the endzone because you just never know about that snap, place, and kick. Especially the "place" part.

Just because ESPN said there was 1 second left doesn't mean you have to blindly believe them. ESPN dumbs entire game and strategy down into a 30 second highlight clip.
The clock stops when the TD signal is given or the incompletion sign is given. If you'd watch the replay the official takes his sweet time signalling the TD. (drama in Tiger Stadium is always better savored for a few seconds)



My question is this: If you would have kicked the field goal instead of run the play, why wouldn't you have kicked the filedgoal on the previous play? We were within fieldgoal range. Throwing the ball only puts it up for an interception as you've said.

Answer: Some of us were born to coach and some of us were born to watch from the stands.

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Just because ESPN said there was 1 second left doesn't mean you have to blindly believe them

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No, the scoreboard said one second. Don't know what ESPN said.

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No, the scoreboard said one second. Don't know what ESPN said.

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yet the replay clearly showed that the clock operator let 3-4 seconds tick off the clock after Byrd caught the pass

I'm sure it's been pointed out many times over, but I certainly find the fact SFP said "without pointing out his NC" hilarious.

Isn't the same as saying - If you consider Gene Chiznik a bad HC please give examples why...but you aren't allowed to use his record!

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Saban's players have made him better than we thought he was.

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What does that mean? How are they Saban's players?

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Every year involves luck. Look at this year, Oklahoma needed the voters to screw Texas.

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The only year in recent memory that luck didn't play a part was the USC vs. UT game as both went wire to wire. Well, maybe some bad luck for AU that year.

1. Great recruiter
2. Hires great coordinators (one messup when Muschamp screwed us last year leaving us with Mallveto, but he'll have another great hire this time around)
3. No guts, no glory mindset in-game strategy against teams with equal or more talent (which is one reason we've won so many Top10 games under Miles)
4. Excellent ambassador for LSU in terms of the quality person he is
5. Great recruiter (it's worth putting twice since recruiting is 75% of the battle in college football)

to name a few...

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Or it gives us no shot if it's knocked around or intercepted. Just because it worked out doesn't make it a good call.

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It was a great call, a great call that was intended to be thrown with about 10-15 seconds left on the clock. Flynn fricked that up when he took forever to get the team to the line.

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And some who were born to coach were also born to frick up an entire season and have a sub .500 record in the SEC and LUCK into a MNC with a few plays here and there. The Miles' apologists are some of the most delusional mother frickers around.

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Theres nothing to apologize for. I dont understand why there are even "Miles haters".

Give me a couple of GOOD reasons why you would fire him?