re: My take on Miles

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has made that money coaching football so for all of you that "think" you know something about football becasue you played on some chicken shite pop warner team or high school team, Coach Miles has forgotten more about football than you will ever know.





I actually disagree with this a bit.

Miles teams have been penalized a lot. The problems on the o5 offensive line were horrendous. But I think Studwara has fixed a lot of that.

I'll take the defensive penalties because up until this year, I think LSU played an all out physical style of football and showed a tremendous amount focus even against lesser opponents.

Somewhere in 2007 spread teams began to take advantage of the defense and I think that's gotten the team to a little lost and they are missing tackles all over the place and no longer playing

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If anyone who has seen how multi-faceted and complex a college football practice is, I doubt you'd be making statements that would even remotely insinuate you being on the same possible level of knowledge of coaching a college team as Coach Miles. He doesn't run around screaming at players all located in the same area like a highschool coach does. He manages his staff, who coach the players. Yes he does some hands on stuff. The video clips of Saban one-on-one coaching a player (everyone is always in awe of this) is not something he spends a huge amount of time doing, contrary to how it appears. Miles has more to do than worry about the fans' opinion of his performance. And, contrary to many people's belief, things do happen that you don't know about. All one has to do is read a game thread from start to finish to see how unfounded and wishy-washy the publics opinion really is. Les will make the necessary corrections or he'll eventually be replaced. I believe he'll fix it; and it won't take much for the fan base to love him again.

so do I

Good Lord. Lets just fire his arse tonight or drop the sport. Its over.Curley's back.

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Its over.Curley's back.

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Nah. Not Curley.

Gerry, maybe, but not Curley.

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Gerry, maybe, but not Curley.

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Did Dinardo have the most successful 3 year run in LSU history and I missed it?

Well said. I won't believe everything they say about you.

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some we can win

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who does that lead you to believe I want LSU to struggle?

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Say what?!?

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Miles teams have been penalized a lot. The problems on the o5 offensive line were horrendous.

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Granted, LSU had problems this year, both due to inexperienced QBs and, well, the defensive issues were all too painfully evident to all of us. However...

Here's where coaches and those in the locker rooms know more than the average fan.

When you switch a player from Defense to Offensive line, the transition is incredibly difficult. What we don't realize - as a dear friend who prior to retirement enjoyed a nice, albeit by his own description not a stellar NFL career explained to us in the midst of our bitching about all of LSU's O line penalties last year - is that the way you fire off the ball on defense is totally opposite from how you do so on the offensive line. All year we bitched and moaned about Ciron Black's false starts, etc. ... only to be embarrassed and red-faced at half-time of the NCG as our friend patiently (and probably far more graciously than I would have) explained to us why.

What appeared to us to be a terrible lack of discipline was just the steep learning curve coaches understand {and anticipate} when switching players from defense to offensive line positions. How many false start and related penalties did Black have this year as opposed to last year? Not many. What we as fans sometimes see on the field isn't always caused by what we think it is.

Do we really need an Alabama lunatic posting on this board. Aren't there enough of those among us?

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good post...now let's go find a DC!

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Well said.