This exemplifies what is so wrong about the media treatment of LSU and Miles....

On CFB Daily today, Tom Lugenbill (and ftr, I always hate him even when he says good things about LSU LINK) was talking about LSU and responded to a fan email saying that "Les excels with teams like these".

His exact words were, "No, Les excels because he has better players than everyone else" which was followed by raucous laughter and agreement by himself and everyone else on set.

He then later called Les Miles the "newly minted head coach at LSU" when he won the 2007 National Championship, perpetuating the idea that he pulled a Coker and won with Saban's team, which is complete bullshite as it was Year 3 after Saban.

Yes, I mad and jimmies rustled because this is truly what these uninformed hacks want the rest of the country to believe. Not to mention, it's simply not true.

The idea that Les coasts on talent is just wrong. By every objective measure, there are at least 5 teams that have recruited better than LSU over the past 5 years, and another 5 or 6 that are at least at the same level, several of whom are on LSU's schedule every single year. Just look at the composite rankings.

Alabama, Florida, Florida State, Oregon, Ohio State, Georgia, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Texas, Auburn, USC, Tennessee and even Clemson are just as stacked with elite HS talent as LSU is if not more. I understand rankings aren't infallible, but composite rankings at least give a good objective look at general talent levels at a school.

If you're talking about LSU having more NFL talent than everyone else, what changed so much from the high school rankings to the number of NFL players LSU produces??? Wouldn't those results be a credit to the coaching those players received at LSU versus the coaching at other schools that have similar talent out of high school?


And at this point, does anyone honestly believe that LSU has more talent than teams like Alabama, Florida, Georgia in the SEC and other teams like Florida State, Ohio State, Notre Dame, USC, Oregon, Texas, or Oklahoma??

And yet LSU continues to win more than any of them except for Alabama, and they do it against a far tougher schedule.


What is it about LSU and Miles that makes the talent the focus? You never hear "Well Saban only wins because he's had the #1 recruiting class 4 of the last 5 years" just like you never heard those arguments as knocks against the accomplishments of Pete Carrol, Urban Meyer, Chip Kelly, Bob Stoops, or even someone like Mark Richt or Jimbo Fisher.


The fact that these "experts" are continually disrespecting and perpetuating the lack of respect for Miles is not harmless.

Take the time to notice the smirks and muffled chuckles when the ESPN "experts" like Luginbill, Nowkha, Stinchcomb, Pollack, May, Fowler, Davis and even someone like Herbstreit, who I think respects Miles, almost anytime they talk about "The Maaaad Hatter" or WACKY LES. And it's not even worth mentioning ESPN's new Skip Bayless inciter Finebama, or Baton Rouge's own resident mouth breathing hack Guilbeau.

These people are poisoning our program, and I don't even know if it's even intentional with all of them, or if it's more of a playground mentality of ganging up on the kid being bullied so the cool kids will think you're cool too.

It's exactly the reason our team didn't get the recognition it deserved in 2011 and were subjected to The Rematch.


I know tldr jimmies rustled but all of the people on this board that continually bash our coach share some responsibility IMO for creating a sense of disrespect around by far the most successful coach in our program's history.


It's also why a fan and media darling like Patterson can backtrack on Fields with no fallout from the media after bashing Miles for his handling of the Hill situation, which the media continues to crucify Miles for to this day.


If this stuff isn't frustrating to you, it's probably because you haven't thought it through. So please, think before you post.


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