re: Les Miles and FACTS

How many times are we going to see a Miles stat thread after a loss?

I think we all get his achievements. The painful thing is they're becoming further in the past.
I think he's done some great things here, I'm just over his inability to produce an offense. Or watching a QB throw for 76 and 86yds.
It's shape up or ship out for me. I'm a long time miles supporter but everything good comes to an end. He lost me last Saturday.

Eta I'm just mad right now I think

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2 years ago we were the reigning sec champ amd last year we finished in the top 15 while accomplishing something offensively that had never been done in the sec. Do you dumbasses really believe finishing #14 in country is a failed season?

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You are the dumbass. Les is a simple coach who cant evolve into anything else. He is simply not capable. If all the stars align and every bounce goes his way, then he has a shot at winning the big games. If things start to go wrong, or he has to become imaginative or thoughtful in his coaching in order to prevail, he is doomed. I think he should be ashamed of himself really. Deep down he has to know that he is underachieving.

The facts are that Les Miles has done a lot for this school and been extremely successful in the process. His coaching style is boring, unimaginative, and transparent, but is has worked in the toughest conference in the land. He has fielded, he deserves credit for any unit underneath him that succeeds just as he deserves blame for the ones that fail, a Defense that has been among the best in the country year in and year out.

His average total offense ranking is 53rd over his 10 year career, which includes a 14 and 9 ranking in years 2 and 3 respectively. If you look at his last 5 years it is 63, a downward trend. (5 years is more indicative being that the most recent data is more telling of the current state of the program)

This season, he has handled two QB's said to be competing for the starting position in the following manner: Anthony Jennings has thrown for a 46% completion rate. He has averaged 18 attempts for ~127 yards passing starting 10 games out of 11. He has thrown for 9 TD's against 6 Int's. He has rushed 96 times for an average 1.92 yard per carry and 0 TD's.

In his last 4 games, he performed at a rate of 46% completion rate, he has averaged 20 attempts in that span, averaged passing for 106 yards per game, has 3 TD's to 3 Int's along with a fumble. He has rushed 96 times for an average 1.92 yard per carry and 0 TD's.

Brandon Harris has attempted 5 or more passes in 4 games. In those games, he has passed for a 62% completion rate, he has averaged 11 attempts passing for 110 yards per game starting 1 game of the 11 played, he has 6 TD's to 1 Int. In those games he has rushed for 20 times for an average 7.2 YPC and 3 TD's.

Both QB's have had a terrible game, Jennings against NMST at home, Harris against Auburn away. Jennings, who statistically performed worse in his bad game, was brought in the following week. Harris hasn't played a significant series since 10/4, 55 days before our final regular season game.

LSU was shut out against an SEC team that has lost 17 straight games in SEC play. Our Defense held Arkansas to their lowest offensive output of their season at 264 yards while the LSU offense put up 123 total yards, our lowest of the season. Jennings passed for 33 yards in the first half, 5 yards in 3 drives in the 3rd qtr, and completed 6 passes for 49 yards after LSU trailed 17-0. LSU crossed midfield three times and no change was made at the QB position.

I'm almost positive I didn't list a single opinion in likely my longest post ever on TD. I have successfully wasted a sincere amount of time at work and come to the conclusion that while Miles certainly appears to be an older coach refusing to adapt his offensive philosophy, he does not deserve to be fired yet. Not one aspect of the QB distribution for the majority of this season can be explained and we appear to be no better after almost an entire year. I think the best thing for LSU is for Miles to accept that he needs to change or hit the road. With the level of teams/coaching in the West now, the same ole thing will no longer work well enough to pull off West Titles, SEC Championships, and certainly not NC's.

WTFL;DNR

DCPA

I love these threads. Can the OP do one of Muschamp where you pick out all of his positive stats and post them, but leave out all of the negative stats, especially from the past two seasons? I'm sure Muschamp will look like an all-star also.

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Muschamp was awful.

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Losing 3 games with the talent we had last year is worse.

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We got shutout by Arkansas and had Bama beat but this Elmer Fudd scared to lose attitude I will settle for FG lost us the Bama game.

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yeah it was 4th and 20

you take the field goal in a 10-10 games with less than a minute left.

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Blake sims barely got the job this year, but he drove down the field in tiger stadium to tie the game then threw the TD to win it in OT. how many starts did he have before this year?

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Exactly. There's 50 programs across the country with freshmen or green QB's who are all doing better than ours. Meanwhile, LSU has better facilities, higher paid coaches, and better assistants. There is simply NO EXCUSE for this staff's poor performance when it comes to the QB position, NONE.

Here are some facts for you:



If you are sober you may actually be able to make sense out of what in FACT has happened.

Graph compliments from ForeverLSU02 here Cumulative win %, margin of victory, ppg scored & ppg allowed in Miles' 10 years at LSU.

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You can't be taken serious if you are comparing Les' tenure at LSU to Muschamp's time at Florida. Muschamp was awful.

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You clearly missed my point. I wasn't comparing Muschamp to Miles.