re: Les taking shots at O on the radio?

I was never a Les fan either Mike, but it's hard to argue with the overall results.

I do agree that this comes across a bit like sour grapes. That doesn't mean he's not telling the truth though.

Let’s see, I think we had 17 guys in nfl training camps the summer before O’s first year.

Still no QB.

Guys like Trey Quinn & Diarse transfered. NO WRs.

No LB depth.

No line depth on either side.

Guice, Key, Lawrence all injured last year.

Still no QB


I don’t think we were set up to be very good I’m O’s first year, and I said that from the onset.

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Seriously, go look at 2015 & 16’ and tell me you won’t promptly need a barf bag for all the talent we wasted. You don’t get those years back!!!!

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He was getting the talent at least. Can't say the same for Eddie O.

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And he still lucked out needing a miracle after 2 losses to win a championship.

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Pre college football playoff, unless you went undefeated, you were "lucking" into a national championship. It has always bugged me that Les never gets full credit for his championship, and I'm not even a big of a fan of Les and his archaic coaching philosophy.

If Saban and Alabama don't luck into the 2011-12 BCS Championship game, Les is viewed entirely different.

LSU was right to fire Les when they did. The Saban/Bama machine broke Les Miles on 1/9/12, and Les never recovered.

LSU went wrong when they did not have a legitimate coaching search after firing Les. Alleva had his feelings hurt by Herman and then rushed and hired a sure thing with a guy literally no other program was pursuing.

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My opinion of him is on par with curly and dinardo

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C'mon buddy. That's WAY too far. The guy was averaging 10 wins a season for a decade. Those guys were flashes in the pan. DiNardo had the best non championship win that I've ever seen in Tiger Stadium, but it's nothing compared to what Miles did for the program.

Miles’ results were satisfying for most of his tenure, but it was always the process that was going to be his downfall, & that showed pretty early.

I agree tho comparing Miles & O is silly but the quicker people realize this program needed some TLC after Miles left the easier it will be to accept that despite what O said, he may need to bring in more than just 1 recruiting class to really turn the corner,

“ on a par with curly and dinardo”

You have to be college football/SEC football mentally challenged to really believe that.

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He was getting the talent at least. Can't say the same for Eddie O.

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This is so silly & premature to say at this point. If at the end of the year you are not happy with our 2019 class, our sophomores that will be logging heavy minutes, some scattered freshmen, as well as our juco & graduate transfers, then I’ll stsrt listening to crap like this.

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O was billed as an immediate improvement to Miles, so far he hasn’t been.

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This is the biggest trash argument of all time. If you believed that O was possibly an improvement to Miles in ANY way you are culpable for our pending 6-6 season. Past performance did not indicate that O was a better fit. O's plan for the Tiger's did not indicate that he was a better fit (saying he is going to hire two expert coordinators and let them coach was stupid AF). People got sold on basically an ESPN 30 for 30 story about O's come back.

I do believe that Miles was not going to change and it was time for him to go (once you hire your best man and it doesn't work out, you have to go down with that ship, see Rex Ryan hiring his brother). HOWEVER, not performing an ounce of due diligence in the head coach search process is completely incomprehensible and honestly borderline criminal. The AD should have been, and still should be, relieved of his duties, but not before the Governor puts in some competent people on the Board of Regents that will finally have both the School's and the Athletic Department's best interest in mind.

I liked Les as well as most but in all fairness I don't recall Orgeron ever saying he needed a safety net of any kind.

In addition, Orgeron inherited a team which was short several players on both the OL and DL. The team also had the on going QB problem.

Orgeron has focused on the lack of depth on the lines and brought in a top QB.

I will bet that the LSU offense will be much better under Orgeron and Ensminger than it was under Les and Cam.

The LSU Defense is going to be outstanding this season with a deep DL.
It should be the best Defense Aranda has had at LSU.

Orgeron deserves a chance and our support. Ex coaches really should not get into critiqueing their replacements.