re: Rosetta is Right. This REALLY needs to happen...

Choctaw - you keep alluding to this. If true, why wasn't that player suspended? If a player is allowed to dress out, he should be available to play if needed. If he isn't then another player should be ready to step up. If Miles put himself in a position where the team had to win or lose with an ineffective QB, then he mismanaged the situation.

Not sure how you define "throw[n] under the bus". I define it as calling out someone's failures as an excuse for why a team lost. I have never seen Miles do this. Miles is handling the situation exactly as he should. He's not eloquent but he shows good judgment in handling these situations. He is doing exactly what I would recommend in this situation - don't blame anyone, look forward, and focus on recruiting and next season.

My wife doesn't know shite about football and she thought it was incredibly stupid to run the option. No way was Baka not going to be ready

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Give it a rest.

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Macknight22 is RIGHT on target.

This whole 'let it go' thing is admirable (i appreciate your superior intestinal fortitude) but ignorant. Moreover, it does NOTHING to solve the problem which exists today....that the LSU fan base is in an uproar. We can argue whether that is in fact a real problem and it MAY not be, but more and more data is pointing to the fact that it IS a problem when the fans aren't happy. Well....at least when the fans are THIS unhappy.

IF an upset fan base (to this extreme) IS a real issue, then it is now too late to just let this go. If it were so easy for people to just GET OVER IT, then why is the fan base still boiling? If you are expecting a superhuman effort from those same people to get over this, you aren't going to get it. And you can't just ditch em all. So what do you do? Ignore it? No!

Why does a political candidate come out and address his constituency when a crisis occurs? Because that's the only way to handle it. A silent leader is a poor leader. And make no mistake, CLM is leading his fan base as WELL as his team.

Despite what its members may believe, TD represents a very small fraction of Tiger fans worldwide. But the unrest on this BB is likely representative of the fan base as a whole. Telling off individuals one by one (again, your superior intestinal fortitude) does nothing to achieve your goal, which is to calm the fanbase i would assume. Your efforts are simply not scalable - beyond the throes of the 10k people who might read your thread.

Moreover, I would argue that you create MORE/continued unrest by aggressively addressing those looking for resolution with tepid platitudes topped with an air of bulletin board (based on post count) superiority.

So to all of you who keep saying that LSU fans don't deserve answers...you are flat wrong. And your efforts to enforce your beliefs actually perpetuate the problems i would assume that you genuinely wish to mitigate. i.e...your actions result in the opposite of your intentions.

As much as we would like, not everyone can be the mental and emotional cyborgs that YOUR internet personalities inhabit (an analysis for another day).

The situation is what it is. The fan base is in an uproar. shite SEEMS to be hitting the fan. Perception is reality. CLM can have a HUGE hand in quelling it. He SHOULD take this opportunity to do so.

It WILL die down in time. No doubt. But unresolved issues which are swept under the carpet result in bitterness and anger. That's a fact.

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Choctaw - you keep alluding to this. If true, why wasn't that player suspended? If a player is allowed to dress out, he should be available to play if needed.

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i don't know....maybe because suspending him would've just made it worse. Players that will never see the field dress out every game.

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If Miles put himself in a position where the team had to win or lose with an ineffective QB, then he mismanaged the situation.

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i guess he decided to stick by his word...whether it cost him a NC or not. I guess he could've played Mett.....but then everyone would've just been bitching more about why he put in Mett and not Lee

I completely agree with this.

Am I wrong, or did Les (more or less) *apologize* and admit that he "didn't see this coming". That's it...that's all you are going to get out of Les. To publically admit that he went into a historic NC game, against Saban...virtually unprepared, would be suicidal for the whole program. Not to mention his personal stock.

What he is - and damn well had better be - doing, is GO TO WORK in recruiting to fill in the blanks for another potential run next year. And coming clean about J. Lee...doesn't include admiting that he should have played Lee. Bama's rush hammered JJ, negated the option and the run game, and would have freaked the immobile Lee, slap out.

The only option would have been to come up with an ORIGINAL GAMEPLAN to negate Saban's bull rush of 7 men. Les didn't do that...and I doubt that any of us will ever hear him admit it; he's too proud. Character flaw. Reality. So we had all just as well shut up for the future good of our team, and hope that Les learned a valuable lesson; that being that Saban will be prepared to embarrass his arse for the big dance...next year.

PS...recruit QB's that can run and throw, if you want to win NC's. Especially down in the SEC.

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tell your boy he should've gone to class

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he passed didn't he, as evidenced by his eligibility, confirmed by Miles AND Alleva.

Oh, and since grades are private, how do you know he didnt attend class? That was merely another one of you and the Miles apologists "memes" to explain the coach's bullshite behavior.
You should stick to your delusional rants...

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tell your boy he should've gone to class

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Talk about baseless rumors... he didnt go to class or had academic problems so he couldnt play, yet he graduated. And JJ got to play while charges hung. Right