re: what will CLM have to do to regain your respect?

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what will CLM have to do to regain your respect?

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If he doesn't own a time machine, there is no fixing the complete fricking he applied to JL after Bama 1.

Hey douchebag where you at the game ? Did you pay 1,500 a ticket like I did? My goddam
Lic plate says Lsu fan, literally dont question if i am fan. I just feel we deserve better than this. There isn't an excuse in the world for that performance in that game. No emotion no heart. Take those championship effort t shirts off and burn them, that's what I would have done. And I am
Clearly not the only person pissed off. I am a loyal fan but for those of us who work hard for our money we expect a quality product on the field. Miles clearly left the offense alone all season, that's why they were successful. With 37 days he felt obligated to get his hands in the game planning and screwed it all up. He doesn't have a clue how to gameplan!

For many on this board, what happened in the BCS game was inexplicable.
I don't think I've ever seen that type of game before between good teams at any level above high school.
Folks have resorted to speculation, rumor, conspiracies and psych profiles to try to understand what Miles was doing.
That there was a loss of respect for him for his performance on a very big, important stage should surprise no one.
Does ANYONE believe his coaching that nite helped his reputation? The program?

For a certain sect of posters, it doesn't matter what he does. At the slightest misstep, they'll just hate him all over again.

He exhibited incredibly poor judgment and offensive game planning by removing Lee and sticking to his original mindset of JJ as his QB, thereby derailing the productive offense we had in the first 8 games and ultimately costing us a national championship.

He has shown a reliable penchant for this poor judgment in key moments in multiple games.

His offensive philosophy and the re-installation of JJ was an utter failure that he never adapted. It is safe to presume that if JJ had never been arrested Miles would have never changed at all.

But it is his treatment of his player Lee that will leave Miles forever tainted in my point of view. I believe he was dishonest and showed poor character. I always doubted Miles' coaching abilities in terms of game planning, fundamentals, etc, but I always maintained a respect for him in that I believed he was a standup guy who treated his players well and with respect. I no longer believe this.

So, he cannot regain my respect. I no longer respect him. I think he is a fairly good coach with a strong competitiveness and amiability that makes it easy for people to like him. But I no longer think highly of him.

You know, with all honesty, getting beat by Alabama in the National Championship game I CAN TAKE. Getting beat 21-0 by Alabama in the National Championship game I CAN TAKE as well.

Getting beat 21-0 by Alabama in the National Championship game when you make no adjustments to your offense at all throughout the game, still have Lee on the bench when you look over at the face of your starting quarterback and see nothing but mass confusion on his face the entire game and no production whatsoever and do NOTHING to attempt to remedy that and TRY something different to spark life into your offense I CANNOT TAKE...


And that, as far as I can tell, is what rubs most people the wrong way about all of this. I really don't know what Miles was thinking was going to happen in the middle of the 3rd or even beginning of the 4th quarter at worst. WHO in the world can say they looked at the face of Jordon Jefferson in the second half, the score board, and the fact we couldn't seem to get past the 50 yard line and said they had confidence in Jordon Jefferson or the game plan to get something going on offense?

Hell, at worst airing it out would be a punt or a pick six by Lee, at best perhaps some points of the freaking score board. Who cares when you're behind 15-0 and then 21-0? AIR THE frickING BALL. I mean DO SOMETHING, but don't just sit there waiting on Harry Potter and his magic spell to come and save us.

Go to Michigan (or anywhere but LSU)

oh give me a break rickdaddy

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He exhibited incredibly poor judgment and offensive game planning by removing Lee and sticking to his original mindset of JJ as his QB, thereby derailing the productive offense we had in the first 8 games and ultimately costing us a national championship.

He has shown a reliable penchant for this poor judgment in key moments in multiple games.

His offensive philosophy and the re-installation of JJ was an utter failure that he never adapted. It is safe to presume that if JJ had never been arrested Miles would have never changed at all.

But it is his treatment of his player Lee that will leave Miles forever tainted in my point of view. I believe he was dishonest and showed poor character. I always doubted Miles' coaching abilities in terms of game planning, fundamentals, etc, but I always maintained a respect for him in that I believed he was a standup guy who treated his players well and with respect. I no longer believe this.

So, he cannot regain my respect. I no longer respect him. I think he is a fairly good coach with a strong competitiveness and amiability that makes it easy for people to like him. But I no longer think highly of him.

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You just said my thoughts exactly. Like a lot of y'all, the season was a dream season of FUN Tiger football. They won games not by the skin of their teeth, but like a team deserving to shoulder the burden of being ranked #1.

Then, the SEC Champ game came along. And something changed. Not playing Lee until the last kneel was both baffling and disrespectful. A serious WTF? moment.

The the BCS CG nightmare followed, and he really lost me. I used to defend Miles as a honorable guy although a quirky coach. Now, my respect for him as an honorable guy is gone.