re: The Most Logical Thing to Have Ever Been Typed on the Rant!!

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Dumbass, Florida's defense didn't stop anyone that year. I think either 9 or 10 of the starting 11 were freshmen and sophomores. They returned maybe 2 starters from the year before. Before the 2007 season started, Urban Meyer said that the inexperience on his defense was alarming. It's not as though Florida had any trouble scoring on Michigan.

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#9 Florida had already played 11 games and then had a MONTH to prepare for an unranked Big Ten team that was in the process of losing their coach in a very controversial manner

who is the dumbass? u r

Florida never had a defense at any point in the 2007 season. Did they all the sudden learn how to play defense in the one month break they had? Besides, Michigan wanted to win one for Lloyd Carr. Besides, Michigan finished second in the Big-10. Outside of App State, it wasn't like they had any other horrible losses. Michigan only had one more loss than Florida and they both had the same number of wins vs. top 25 teams.

LSU fan's "Perfect Season": Go undefeated and fire the head coach. I'm not saying Les Miles is the greatest coach in college football, but his record speaks for itself. I went to LSU during the 70's and have lived through a lot more dire seasons than last year's 8-5 record with a good bowl win. There have been season's thousands of LSU fans would have given their right arm to have an 8-5 record. And that was Miles' worst year. Anybody remember Jerry Stovall? Gerry DiNardo? Curley Hallman? Until 2003, I didn't think I'd live to see LSU win another National Championship in my lifetime. I was 5 years old in 1959 and don't really remember it. We've won 2 in the last 7 years. Now it seems LSU fans are spoiled and can't accept a down year or two, even when there are extenuating circumstances. (Like losing great players to graduation or early exit to the NFL, or having to play with inexperienced QB's because the GREAT QB that everyone wanted and assumed would be our QB for the past 2 years turns out to be an irresponsible troublemaker and has to be kicked off the team) I'm sick of hearing how we have the best talent in the whole wide world. Maybe they should play like it The coaches can only do so much. I think we've got good talent, with some obvious gaps, and the're only going to get better. Give Les Miles a chance. He deserves it and we will never attract the "perfect" coach because he probably doesn't exist and, if he did, he wouldn't want to come to a situation where he is vilified if he doesn't win the National Championship every stinking year! That's my rant,

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In the five year period Saban was at LSU, he could never string a couple of 10 win seasons in a row. While in the four complete seaons Miles has been at LSU, he has strung three 11 win seasons together. NegaTigers pick and choose whatever stats tend to prove their point and ignore all others.

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LSU was put back on the map by Saban and Les inherited a gold mine. After what you have seen the last two seasons do you really think Les could have built the program like Saban did post-DiNardo? I can only imagine Les playing converted TE's on the DL as Saban had to due to no talent at DE when he arrived. Kyle Kipps, remember him? Players now have to be moved from the DL to the OL because the positions were either underrecruited or didn't pan out. Barksdale, Hitt, Blackwell, etc. I have nothing against Miles, but you will not sway my belief that Saban is a better game day coach and can win with D like few other college coaches these days. Yeah, Saban walked into a better situation with more talent at Bama than he got from DiNardo, but Miles walked into a set program, too.

I am a middle of the road person, I see plenty of room for improvement.

Most coaches don't have the luxury of walking into a program that is perfectly designed for any reasonable coach to win the national championship. Larry Coker comes to mind as well. Although Davis didn't win the national championship there, he put everything in motion for the successor to win it. Coker was good his first three years there, but once he got to the fourth year, things didn't look as good as they once were.

Solid and fact.

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LSU fan's "Perfect Season": Go undefeated and fire the head coach. I'm not saying Les Miles is the greatest coach in college football, but his record speaks for itself. I went to LSU during the 70's and have lived through a lot more dire seasons than last year's 8-5 record with a good bowl win. There have been season's thousands of LSU fans would have given their right arm to have an 8-5 record. And that was Miles' worst year. Anybody remember Jerry Stovall? Gerry DiNardo? Curley Hallman? Until 2003, I didn't think I'd live to see LSU win another National Championship in my lifetime. I was 5 years old in 1959 and don't really remember it. We've won 2 in the last 7 years. Now it seems LSU fans are spoiled and can't accept a down year or two, even when there are extenuating circumstances. (Like losing great players to graduation or early exit to the NFL, or having to play with inexperienced QB's because the GREAT QB that everyone wanted and assumed would be our QB for the past 2 years turns out to be an irresponsible troublemaker and has to be kicked off the team) I'm sick of hearing how we have the best talent in the whole wide world. Maybe they should play like it The coaches can only do so much. I think we've got good talent, with some obvious gaps, and the're only going to get better. Give Les Miles a chance. He deserves it and we will never attract the "perfect" coach because he probably doesn't exist and, if he did, he wouldn't want to come to a situation where he is vilified if he doesn't win the National Championship every stinking year! That's my rant,

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While you could have used a few paragraph breaks in there, I totally agree with you. CLM isn't the best coach in college football, but he's not the slobbering moron that many ranters claim he is either. Nor is Saban the most brilliant coach in the modern era (a claim I've read on here a few weeks ago).

I'm not totally happy with this season. But to be unhappy with a potential 11-2 season...with the two loses being to the #1 and #3 teams (one of which needed the refs to beat our second team) doesn't spell doom for our program either. Sometimes there's enough stupidity and entitlement on this board to kill a person.

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The Most Logical Thing to Have Ever Been Typed on the Rant!!
Give it up. The refs did not beat us. Yes the interception call was bullshite, but there was no indication that we would have been able to move the ball. Could we have won, yes. We still blew many other opportunities. Our defense also opened the floodgates in the second half.

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You talking to me? I've said more than once that I doubt we'd have one if the int call had been diff. However, we will never fricking know. The fact is, we were in the game until then, despite having key players out with injuries, and it took a shitty call to knock us out of the game, despite CLM's obvious deficiencies as a coach and Lord Saban's obvious and unparalleled superiority as a coach (just quoting what I've read here).

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lucky to win a split against Les Miles during a period when LSU lacked an experienced QB for the last two years.

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uh...they've beaten us the last two years...we havent split anything with them...

While I don't think Pete Carroll is a godsend, he did turn around USC's program rather quickly, but going 1-2 in a three-game span is hardly the same as going 7-8 in your previous 15 SEC games.