re: Miles should be given absolute credit for developing

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He hired Chavis. He gets credit for the defense.

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He gets credit for making a good hire (which is obviously crucial). He doesn't get credit for the defense.

Plain & Simple....you nailed it.

"He should be given credit for recruiting and running a class program. I don't know that he should be given credit for developing our defensive players."

He's the head coach- of course he should. Why does he get the blame for the offensive side then. Come on. Be objective.

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Miles' incredible success led to his D Coord getting a MAJOR Div1 head coaching job. How you morph that into Miles destroyed the defense is hysterical.

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have you forgotten THE YEAR AFTER with his CO-DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR crap..

huh..bad memory or convenience ?

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Miles' incredible success led to his D Coord getting a MAJOR Div1 head coaching job.

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Well as some here have noted, CLM is a CEO type HC. As CEO, his job is to have a handle on every thread of the whole package. This would include the status of his assistant coaches. I recall clearly that even the dumbest of the dumb along the Rant "knew" all year long that Pellini was going somewhere at the end of the season. I must assume CLM also "knew" this. What he chose to do about replacing Bo with a really quality DC was either: nothing or ineffective. Perhaps he waited until the end of the season and bowl game to make inquiries of possible replacements? No CEO worth his salt would leave the chips to fall where they may until the last possible second the way it appeared to all of us here back then. He would have been behind the scenes checking and rechecking with possibles all season through, in order to sign the right person onto the job soon as all the games were done. But no... So in a sense CLM, by inaction or ineffective leadership, backed himself into a corner and we all came out with a Malveto.

Good assessment, IMO. Wait until the biggie SEC teams play LSU with their levels of defense, and shut down our running game cold. Then this QB (and Offense) problem will become so totally obvious that even the most optimistic posi-persons along here will not be able to pretend otherwise.

I actually think Miles knows this. I mean it's fairly obvious. I think he's trying to come up with the best possible way to face these games- limit mistakes on offense, hang it on your d and special teams. It's not optimal but the best we can do. That philosophy has won championships before but perhaps not with this stale of a passing game. Great teams that win without passing- totally dominate on the run. You know it's coming and can't stop it. We're not that type of running team.

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Perhaps he waited until the end of the season and bowl game to make inquiries of possible replacements?

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Total speculation and Assuming.

Maybe Miles believed the Malveto was up to the task and wanted to promote from within. Turns out they weren't and he changed it.

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Here is our difference.. you say he addressed the problem....
I say he CREATED the problem...no Kudos at all..

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Then you got your head up your arse.

Unless you consider winning an NC and CREATING a hot ticket head coaching candidate is CREATING the problem. I guess that means you don't want us winning another NC and CREATING more problems.

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I actually think Miles knows this. I mean it's fairly obvious.

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Thanks. I guess it is obvious if even I "get" it. Haha.

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I think he's trying to come up with the best possible way to face these games- limit mistakes on offense, hang it on your d and special teams. It's not optimal but the best we can do.

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Here's where he's failing. His great strengths in the first couple of seasons revolved around him trusting his talent and taking big risks. Instead of doing either, CLM seems like he's circling the wagons and trying to hang on until the clock runs out. Time will tell. If it isn't Dooley's Tennessee that takes LSU down, it will likely be UF, UA, ARK, and probably a resurgent Auburn.

The sheer futility of it all is that LSU has the talent on offense to change its own destiny; it is not that we have no QB, it is that we are not taking the risks to optimize what we've got.