re: Why do people on this board think they know better than the coaching staff?

here's a point I've been making for years.

all fans criticize the playcalling of the staff. what makes your complaints more legitimate than theirs? since that is equal among the fanbases, what team is more successful?

in other words, you complain that miles made a mistake. the opponent fans can complain that their staff made mistakes on all the plays that miles was successful. so who has more reason to complain? the fans that win less are wishing they had lsu's smaller list of complaints. if that's the case, why even bother complaining except to say you wish miles was better than saban?

JUST ADMIT IT SABAN LOVERS.

a fan never acknowledges that the opponent has 11 scholarship players and coaches who are also experienced and have developed a reasonable gameplan against lsu. they just see a play not work and think they know better what lsu should have done and it's guaranteed to work because "lsu has talent".
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This and the Shaq being tall example should stop this board but it wont.
Whatever it is that has u hating on Miles, media 1/9, Ole Miss........ Let it go. Open your mind.
Its tougher and tougher every year. Teams are catching up, count your blessings ever day Miles is happy here.
If it were easy everybody would be doing it! 4-5 mil a year aint never gonna be easy.

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Do some of y'all really think that the coaching staff is purposely not putting the best players on the field?

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This is a forum for discussing football. Are you really surprised that people are discussing the notion of Beckwith starting over a player that always seems lost on the field?

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dude, coaching is not that hard, current dicussion aside, I guarantee you that many on this board could have done no worse than Hallman, it would have been too much of a pay cut for me at the time though

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"Coaching" is an extremely broad term.

And it's difficult even if you're just trying to coach up some kids to play junior high school sports. It only get's exponentially tougher the further along up the ladder one goes. Job security, a given in many 'normal' jobs is non-existent. It's either produce or see ya bye.

Without a doubt, you'd pee your pant's walking out on Tiger Stadium's field, even if you held the lowest coaching position there is. Of this, I am 100% certain.

You'd be as entertaining then as you're being now.

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coaching is not that hard

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this is an interesting point. a fan might have a higher iq than any of the coaches but, is that enough to be a successful coach? you might be smarter than a construction foreman but there's no way you should be trusted on a job site to make better decisions than an experienced, highly respected foreman.

the best coaches obviously have an aptitude for the game. it's a specific kind of intelligence that a fan might or might not have, which is beside the point. the point is that football fans, even if highly intelligent, have no credibility when they criticize playcalling. they don't know all the variables as well as the coaches and they have no guarantee that their alternative would have worked better. it's even worse when fans criticize player personnel decisions.

The fact that this thread is still going on and some people actually think that they could even remotely come close to doing the type of job that LM has done show the absolute delusion that some live in.

food for thought

if refgate doesn't happen in '06, it's not unreasonable to think lsu beats auburn. lsu might have been in the sec championship game and was playing better than anyone at the end of the season.

auburn plays 2010 with an ineligible player. it's not miles' fault that the ncaa and the sec didn't do their job. lsu might have gotten a bcs game that season otherwise. msu notified the sec before the season even started. everyone knew newton was an ineligible player. no one had the guts to pull the trigger and hid behind a technicality.

bama gets the ncg appearance instead of osu. personally, I think osu doesn't provide near the challenge that bama did. osu had absolutely no defense whatsoever. what if lsu had beaten osu?

Peterson is awarded the interception against bama in 2009. it's not unreasonable to think that lsu could have won the game. perhaps no championship for bama and perhaps sec championship game for lsu.

if those 4 things, all beyond miles' control, play out differently, it's not unreasonable to think that miles is sitting on top instead of saban. the people who complain about miles' game decisions don't mention these possibilities.

despite all that, lsu is still second only to bama since saban got there.

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A fan's hindsight sometimes is smarter than a coach's initial decision.

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I laughed

How do u measure it Louie T?

U should come hang out at my club sometime if u think im lying big fella.