re: Miles DOES NOT Win Games He's Not Suppose to

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Maybe if LSU is supposed to lose BECAUSE of Miles? Like the bookies think he is a bad coach? And a better coach would have LSU playing at a higher level and would be favored to win against Bama and actually beat Bama?

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I'm pretty sure Kenny White, CRIS, Greek, etc.. aren't afraid to make Miles the chalk over Meyer and Saban when he has the nuts and/or homefield(like in '07, and '05)..

I'm pretty sure that being double-digit dogs in '09 was more based upon the big uglies edge on both sides of the trenches, a bye week for both, scoring margins, etc..

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I would say Miles is better than decent. I think he's somewhere between good and great, but not elite.

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I agree with this. The problem is, he gets paid like an elite coach.

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But I get your point. Miles doesnt win many SEC games that his team was not favored to win. Although I doubt he is alone in this. And LSU is probably favored in every conference game except Florida, Bama, and UGA on the road. Not many teams do well against them.

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Those 3 teams don't win many games they aren't supposed to win either.

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49-13 with a natl title will do that for a guy. If he stops winning, he'll no longer get paid like an elite coach. (at least not by LSU)

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True. But I think what the OP is really trying to say is that Miles is a decent coach but not great, bc a great coach would have more wins, bigger margin of victory, and would pull an upset in the SEC once in a while. A decent coach could win with this talent, but a great coach, like the ones at Florida and Bama, would have LSU dominating.

Lets be honest. This is another Miles is not Saban thread.
I see your point but Miles has not lost to ULM, or UAB, or UTAH. Whats more embarrassing?
1. Losing on the road to a 3rd ranked SEC team while sustaining a number of injuries and questionable officiating.
or
2. losing to rent a win teams and laying an egg in your conferences historic Bowl game because the players could not be coached up to play down to Utahs level.

Jus a book of knowledge

Amazing that you did all this work for nothing

I get what you are saying. Some people are blind to any criticsm towards Miles. He's a good coach but no where near great. He's good at recruiting but in game decisions, clock management, team discipline, that falls on him.

If you can't get at least one of these issues solved then I dont know what to say to you. You get payed the big bucks for a reason, hell I love the fact that we only lose 2-3 games a year, but when I see the wins are so narrow against weaker opponents when you basically out match them at every skill position (Miss st, UGA) and last year when he was too stubborn to put JJ in and this year when he was too stubborn to insert his game changing players in at times when our moral is low in a game (he could have put Shep in the game with Lee and they could have threw the Bama D off guard with a RB pass, seriously, who would think he'd do that), It's ridiculous!

One last thing, We had a good chance of winning the Fla game despite bad QB play. Scott was able to run on the Florida D but after 13 carries for 53 yards, he just stopped using him. Didn't see Shep I believe the whole game, options to the short side when we know it has about a 23% success rate. Why after Scott went down we didn't see Keiland and Ridley run the ball. After that TD by Ridley we went 3 and out because he wanted to pass and shite. Scott put up 80-90+ yards on Bama, so why in the hell DO WE STOP RUNNNING!! It just doesn't make since.

I'm not implying to fire the guy, he has just got to do better, this shite pisses me off. The players don't piss me off, the lack of coaching them does.

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Datbayoubengal

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Why after Scott went down we didn't see Keiland and Ridley run the ball. After that TD by Ridley we went 3 and out because he wanted to pass and shite. Scott put up 80-90+ yards on Bama, so why in the hell DO WE STOP RUNNNING!! It just doesn't make since.

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And if we would have ran the ball and gone 3 and out people would be on here blasting Miles for taking the playbook away from Crowton and forcing his run first philosophy.