re: What will be your reaction if RJ Jackson

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you act like certain biases can't exist with a human coaching staff

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That wrong. That has nothing to do with the issue here. What you are suggesting is a bias that hurts the success of the program, and one that is almost 100% consistent, and one that leads to devastating mistakes that any 3rd grade PE class could easily identify as bad moves. What we are suggesting is that a coach that is subject to biases such as that has virtually zero chance of ever winning a single game at the Div. I college level.

You have claimed that there is absolutely zero chance that Jacob Hester was the better choice to play RB than Keiland Williams at any point ever, and that it was obvious to anyone with any knowlege of football whatsoever. And the suggestion that a coach that makes blunders equivalent to seasoning their steak with dogshit would achieve the level of success that Coach Miles has is absurd.

What you cannot accept is that you are wrong about football. There are times when you are absolutely certain to the core of your being that you know you are right, and yet you are wrong. It happens, because you are not an expert at football and do not have access to the years of training and experience involved in the highest levels of the game. Coach Miles is. And while that does not mean he is never wrong, it means that no matter what, he is ALWAYS far more likely to be right in every single situation than you are. So if he has made mistakes, it is almost certainly going to be due to factors far beyond your ability to discern them. Because if he was making all the mistakes you claim he was making, coaches like Saban, Meyer, Fulmer, Tuberville, Weiss, Tressel, Nutt, etc., would NEVER be beaten by him.

I know you have a lot of trouble accepting that because you have so much invested in your image as an "expert" on football, but until you simply accept that you can be wrong and Miles can be right for reasons you cannot even understand, you will continue to make yourself look foolish with claims that you know more about coaching than Miles (which any claim to have identified the cause and correction of a continued "mistake" by definition is).

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play on the field still trumps all to me

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And how exactly do you make a decision based on "play on the field" before the player has set foot on the field?

And if "play on the field" trumps all, would you have bumped Bowe, Davis and Doucet down the depth chart in '06? Brandon Lafell started off catching a TD on every play he was in the game. Should we have moved him immediately ahead of the big three at that point?

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Three straight 11+ win seasons

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0 straight

nope

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Miles is unorthodox to be sure,

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he's not really that unorthodox

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Yeah, he might not start in the first few games, but keep in mind that Terrance Toliver got some pretty decent playing time at the start of his freshman season, and there were more experienced receivers on the 2007 team. Also, Toliver was probably not as hard-working or as developed as Rueben.

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I agree, I am picking on the word "start". No doubt these freshmen are going to see playing time, but I think Miles sticks with the veterans (don't know about RJ Jackson starting, but certainly one of the other upperclassmen), then the freshmen coming in and getting some quality PT.

it's going to be interesting to see if randle starts over chris mitchell and RJ jackson