re: Slo and other negatigers. What's the solution

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Yeah, I miss the 07 offseason where we are telling VT how we're going to kickass. Now we got guys saying we suck and LSU fans rush to support them.

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Absolutely! At this point in the late spring, UNC should be shaking at the thought of opening against the Tigers, but unfortunately they are probably more worried about tripping on the turf as they enter the stadium.

I don't believe there is a single LSU fan posting on this board that does not want that unified feeling again. I am looking for some leadership to get us there! However, I just don't have faith that it will come through the current head coach. You can not possibly understand how much I want to be wrong!!!

I wasn't a big Miles fan when he was hired (especially after his Oklahoma St. team lost by 30 points to a mediocre Ohio St. team in the Alamo bowl in '04), but he was our coach so I was willing to give him a shot. I thought that the job Miles did as coach in '05 and '06 was good, but not great. I will always think that the '06 team should've played for a NC and that a horrible gameplan and bad refs in Auburn cost us that game and a shot at a rematch with Florida in the SEC championship game. In '07, Miles won a NC but he did so in a way that had not been done in recent history...by losing 2 games. I think that some, including myself, think that he got unbelievably lucky to have a chance to play for the NC that year after the Arkansas game, much less win it.

As for '08-'09, RP had a lot to do with those bad years, but so does not replacing Pelini with a proven commodity (that one's on Miles). So, I see this year as a make or break year for Miles. If he can win 9 or more games, he can temporarily quiet some of his critics, esp if he can bring in a big recruiting class. But if he wins 8 or less, he's headed out the door if not this year, than definitely next year barring a championship. So my solution is to give the man this year to right the ship, and if not, throw money (Miles' current salary would be just fine to attract a lot of very good coaches' attentions) at another coach and let him come in and clean up the mess.

P.S. As long as Saban's having undefeated seasons over at Bama, LSU fans will continue to bitch about LSU being viewed as a 2nd tier program.

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Yep, It's sad. These people believe everything they hear or read as fact. Look at 'ol Picses..he should get a job cleaning the seats off for the Bama Fans so they can enjoy the "Performance Art" they are about to witness.

Fricking pathetic

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In the last two years who has LSU beat that was actually worth a shite. Miles got lucky last year with a schedule full of rent a wins. Hell he almost found a way to lose a few of those.

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Look at 'ol Picses..he should get a job cleaning the seats off for the Bama Fans so they can enjoy the "Performance Art" they are about to witness.

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Better than that job you have of cleaning sperm off of the windows in the Peep Shows at the local "vieo store".

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Fricking pathetic

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As is your inability to logically be able to criticize your own team. Wait...you get your degree from LSU or is that you on that ITT commercial where you're pitching in that slow pitch baseball league and your wife said, "YOu have made some really good choices."

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As for '08-'09, RP had a lot to do with those bad years, but so does not replacing Pelini with a proven commodity (that one's on Miles)

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Care to let us all know which "proven commodity" was available? AND wanted to come to LSU?

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Them the stars went beyond perfect as Mizzou and WVU choked. We backed into a NC game a week after all but eliminating ourselves.

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Man, 2 teams choke for us to back in. Sounds just like 2003 when ND and Hawaii choked for us to back into, oh, sorry, I mean go to the NC game. Gee, sorry, didn't mean to rain on your parade with facts.

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Care to let us all know which "proven commodity" was available? AND wanted to come to LSU?

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In 2004 after Carl Reese retired, Mack Brown hire Czick from Auburn. If LSU offers top dollar, like we paid Bo P and are paying The Chief and the "Wizard", we can get a hell of a lot better than Malleveto.

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Or they simply disagree with your theory, and don't want to drink the ESPN style Kool-Aid you're peddling.

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theory, its a theory or propganda that Saban is a better coach? Really? The only coach to win a NC at 2 schools is not as good as the only coach to win a NC with 2 losses because 51 > 48?

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Had Hawaii and ND both won it is probable that USC would have edged LSU in SOS and stayed #2 in the BCS and played OU for the title. Both, howevah, were underdogs, ie both expected to lose. ND was at SU, both were mediocre. Hawaii had a winning reco

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Slice it any way you want to kid. If LSU "backed in" in 07 they backed in in 03 too. You can scream to the heavens that it was "different in 03" all you want to. It wont make it fact.

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Slice it any way you want to kid

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thanks! I graduated from LSU in 1992.

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If LSU "backed in" in 07 they backed in in 03 too. You can scream to the heavens that it was "different in 03" all you want to. It wont make it fact.

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you can think 2 mediocre underdogs losing that probably help 1 element of a formula is the same as the #1 and #2 teams losing, buts it not. It is widely assumed that Hawaii losing pushed LSU in, but that is not a proven fact. There is, however, no question that if #2, 10-1 WVU beats 3-8 Pitt at home, they move to #1 and play Ohio State. The situations are not the same. That said, plenty of teams/coaches have needed help to get to the title game. If Lousiville beats Rutgers or USC beats UCLA in 06, Florida and Urban Meyer don't get a title. In 08, if 2 out of USC, Texas and Penn State win close games over OSU, TT and Iowa, Florida is out, it happens, I don't hold it against Les.