re: Kinda miss the fire Les Miles had

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I miss how tough his teams were. They physically mauled into dust any team not named bama.

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Those Tigers team were Bama’s equal in the toughness department. Bama’s advantage came from coaching schematics.

Lol. It's always a sign of low IQ when someone looks at a moron like Les Miles or Ed Orgeron and admires their "fire" despite all of their flaws and despite the fact that they're dumb-as-a-brick meat heads when it comes to actual coaching.

Brian Kelly is building something truly great here and will have the program humming very soon. It has taken some time to rebuild it from the ground up after the Ed Orgeron debacle of 2020-2021.

Have patience and enjoy the great run in the coming years. We are built for sustained success now. #alignment

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Miles didn’t keep up with the times and his refusal to update his offensive philosophy did him in. But his teams were nasty.

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2014 got its fricking arse kicked vs State (at home) and Auburn. The furious comeback at the end vs State made the scoreboard look better, but it didn’t change the fact that we got pushed all over the field on both lines all game. Auburn was an embarrassing blowout from the 1st quarter.

Who did ole Les blow it against in the Music City Bowl to close 2014? Remind me. There’s no way in hell we should have lost that game.

We were ill prepared vs Wisconsin and it took a big comeback to beat them in 2014. The second time around, we were even worse prepared and there was no comeback. As for the end of 2015- there is no defense for that collapse. None.

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Those Tigers team were Bama’s equal in the toughness department. Hamas advantage came from coaching schematics.

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Go back and re-watch the 2015 Bama game. Check out the 2013 2nd half while you’re at it.

He always had highly ranked recruiting classes, but those classes didn't necessarily address the holes on the roster critical to achieve excellence across the board. He also seemed to not be able to get Offensive Tackles who were at a top tier SEC level. How often was he required to convert an interior lineman to play tackle?

The team that beat Oregon in the opener was terrific until they were blown out in the Championship Game. They never got beyond mid field and much of that was the result of not having top level Offensive Tackles.

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But now the opinion on Kelly has become much more split regarding if he’ll ever win a championship here.

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Les fit this program too. He was unique and quotable and flawed, but he was as passionate as we were. BK feels like he’s here for his checks and the appearance of doing enough to not get fired

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Les fit this program too. He was unique and quotable and flawed, but he was as passionate as we were. BK feels like he’s here for his checks and the appearance of doing enough to not get fired

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If BK were just here for the checks, why would he care if he gets fired or not?

That makes no sense.

Les was a clown who cost LSU a dynasty. They should've dumped his arse for Saban when he came crawling back. Les already showed you who he was in 2005 and Saban would've won LSU at least 6 titles. People talk about Les winning a title, but he only got there because of the most luck in the history of CFB. How the frick did 2006-2007 LSU lose that many games? Les Miles. He should've been fired (again) Jan 10th, 2012. frick that cocksucker for what he did to that great 2011 season.

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Les Miles teams were always tough but would run out of gas in November.

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Actually, Miles used to hype the Alabama game to his team from the beginning of the season.

The game was always in the first week of November

The week before the Bama game use to be a bye and both teams would be ranked and the BR media would be talking constantly about it.

Each time Alabama beat him...

After the team lost, the next week was always a moment of deflation....the season was over so as to speak....

But we would still have to face Ole Miss and Arkansas after that and for both those programs LSU was the super bowl.

So we were down in the dumps while Ole Miss and Arkansas were sky high.

Freeze (Ole Miss) and Bielema (Arkansas) made a meal out of us on a couple of occasions 2014/2015 I think.

The trip to Arkansas in the day after Thanksgiving was the worst schedule ever.

It was always usually cold....for Arkansas it would be the superbowl....They usually started the season poorly and then picked up the pace at the end and they were playing the best football.

We would be deflated with SEC championship and CFP championships crushed.

We had got the short end of the stick in SEC scheduling for years...having to play Florida year in year out....Alabama year in year out.

Spurrier would come in the 1990s and hand 5 TDs on us....while Archer, Hallman and DiNardo floundered.

Then came the dreaded late 2000s to 2023...when Saban came in the first week of November and killed our season, if Florida had not already done that...

We were very lucky to have Miles steer us through the early Saban era (2008-20013) ...the program & recruiting did not flounder even when Saban was raiding the state.

Then came coach O and 2016....Burrow/Ensminger/Aranda saved us 2018/2019. Then it all fell apart.

Perhaps. However, I don’t miss the abject fricking stupidity. No one in the history of college football could frick up clock management like Leslie. Whenever a game was coming down to the wire I figured we were fricked.