Number 48 for Miles

Add me to this list.

with you all the way Left Coast Tigah!

Call me greedy, but I want him to get to #56 this season

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More than that, I will never forget the miracle of the 2005 season. He kept a team together where many of the players and their families had just lost so very much. It's never mentioned how tough that was and he led the Tigers to an 11-2 season.

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That season is largely thought of as a failure, due in large part to the way the team lost the game against Tennessee on Monday night after Rita and then getting blown out by UGA in Atlanta by UGA. I've always looked at it as you have, as one of the most remarkable in the program's history. Despite the talent on that team they could have EASILY tossed in th towel...but they didn't, and I think that is largely due to Les Miles.

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Call me greedy,

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me too Bruah!

I not only want to see win #48, but undefeated in the SEC West too!

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I want Coach Miles to keep winning for his sake. He lacks the respect from the media and many fans across the country, yet he keeps winning games.

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You earn respect by sounding and looking competent, and delivering results, so far he only does one of those things.

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What he does, though, is he is involved with us.

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No doubt he's a super good guy and has a good heart, that doesn't mean he doesn't have flaws in his game.

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I personally enjoy getting these wins that no one understands and keeps ripping him apart

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Pointing out poor decisions is not necessarily "ripping him apart". Everyone in public life from the President to a CEO in a prominent position of responsibility gets critiqued. The things he needs to do is learn from the critiques and change and improve his style to compensate for the deficiencies.

miles is a man of character and he recruits character, even with out wins, his teams represent lsu well.

To Tiger-n-Atl

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You earn respect by sounding and looking competent, and delivering results, so far he only does one of those things

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Reply: Really? I'm not sure I agree with your three-pronged criteria for respect but, for the sake of argument, what exactly has he missed? How do you look competent? Hat cocked at a jaunty angle perhaps?

How do you sound competent? Pithy remarks? Humor? Tell it like it is machismo?

Delivering results: don't think you were referring to this one given his 5 year record and comparing it to any school in the country...if you are referring to this as his one area where he "wins" then that means you believe he looks and speaks incompetently.

If that's the case, I offer the gold standard of competent speaking, Bear Bryant. His mumbled replies through a haze of cigarette smoke were generally unintelligible and typically not too profound. But, he did wear his hat at a jaunty angle if you were arguing for the "looking competent" criterion and, as an aside, he did win a few games (and even managed to lose some too).

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Pointing out poor decisions is not necessarily "ripping him apart". Everyone in public life from the President to a CEO in a prominent position of responsibility gets critiqued. The things he needs to do is learn from the critiques and change and improve his style to compensate for the deficiencies

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Reply: I'm pretty sure Miles is not aware at all that any of this stuff has been written. Thus, your critique is sort of like a tree falling in the forest; it might make a noise but the one you hope would hear it is a 100 miles away and blissfully oblivious. Second, it is important to remember that Miles et. al., laboriously critique themselves after each game. So, to believe that any communication occurring on this board is being monitored and absorbed by the coaching staff as useful intel is likely a stretch. I'm guessing they've already decided, independent of this board, that they could've managed the clock more efficiently at the end of the first half, for example.

In conclusion, to suggest that somehow the "critiques" of play calling, hat wearing, sentence syntax, or whatever else someone has served up drive the subsequent behavior of Les or his staff is an interesting suggestion but for what it is worth, I don't think it holds much water.

That's my critique. Perhaps it can be useful in your own search to "learn from the mistakes and compensate for the deficiencies."

t.g.a.t.w.
Member since Nov 2005
15 posts

This post makes me wish I had read your previous 14.