re: Les really let the program slide

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don't really remember Les getting shredded for 2013.

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Then your memory isn’t very good because the 13 OM loss is still constantly brought up to this day as a huge red mark due to OM starting a ton of freshmen.

Never mind that those freshmen were part of the best recruiting class in OM history, were better than the players they replaced, and would have OM ranked in the top 5 much of the year the next season.

Yet those same people will bend over backwards to defend O for losing to a Florida team that was even worse off with injuries than OM was and playing in Tiger Stadium, not on the road like we were against OM.


Then they will backflip back to defending O by shouting about how no team could ever overcome a few players out on the DL against MSU in a 30 point loss or Troy.

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Bama hammered LSU in '13, 38-17.

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Player error on the first drive of the game as LSU is walking into the end zone. Totally changed the flow of the game, just like MSU last year. Can’t hold that against the coach, right?

Oh yeah, and LSU was tied 17-17 until the final minute of the third quarter in 13.

O was never within two touchdowns of Alabama after the first quarter last year. So we were “hammered” last year too, right?

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also remember 2015 with the successive weekend losses to Bama (30-16), Arkansas 31-14 and Ole Miss 38-17 as being the definitive symptom that LSU's football future was on the decline. That was following a pedestrian 8-5 2014 season.

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I remember that too. Another road loss to Alabama after being 7-0 and ranked #2 sent the whole season spiraling.

Another road loss to an OM team that finished in the top 10 and a 17 point loss to an Arkansas team that went 8-5 (5-3 in SEC, better than MSU who won by 30 last year) was definitely the low point of Miles’ 11 year career in Baton Rouge. And he was practically fired at that point.

Miles was nowhere even close to the hot seat in 2015, and all of a sudden after the only three game losing streak in his tenure he was finished.


So after two seasons of “definitive symptoms” of decline, a coach that averaged over 10 wins a year for over a decade, won multiple West and SEC titles and played for multiple NCs winning one, was actively being ousted by the AD with no warning whatsoever because he lost three in a row.


His replacement then blows a game to an injury riddled team (a la @OM 13) at home and with a Sugar Bowl on the line, then kicks off his first full season in the worst SEC in memory with a month in September that would make Miles’ November 15 look like a playoff run.


I guess Ed O better get it right this year because he is at a year and a half of downright stagnant results at best with two blown golden opportunities for a NY6 Bowl invite in consecutive years.

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The LSU "standard" was sinking with LSU.

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What was the LSU “standard” before it stared sinking? What was the “standard” when Miles was fired?

What is it now?