re: Your Level of Trust in Les Miles

Umm... you are the one that claimed we lucked into the 2003 championships. All championships when you lose a game take luck. Hell, even when you don't lose a game it (Auburn 2004), it matters where some pencil dick reporters and SID's put you in a preseason poll.

Reality is that both were NCs. One with 2 losses another with one.

In 2003 there were 3 legitimate 1-loss teams. The rest all had 2 losses. In 2007, there were 7+ 1 or 2-loss teams that had a legitimate gripe. I never said LSU didn't deserve it, but fact is we lost two games (the only thing in our control were the 13 we played). It took all the other teams losing twice to even give us a shot after what we did with our control.

As for you thinking I love Saban? I don't. I hate him. I've had to personally deal with him. As a human being, he's a piece of garbage, but I respect his coaching ability. He didn't have 6 defensive coaches, 3 offensive coaches, and 1 special teams coach when he knew his weakness was on the offense, did he? That is the point. Even last season, we had 4 defensive coaches to six offensive coaches. Eventually, with younger players that will take its toll.

Why should it waver? This man has stood up for evrything LSU. Oh and He Stayed. I would go to battle with him any day. If it is because of our losses this year that's just stupid.

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LSU gave up 163 total yards to a Tulane team. Bama allowed 319 total yards to a Tulane team.

Which Defense gave up more yardage?

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Give it up. Trying to compare LSU to Alabama this year is ridiculous and stupid. Bama beat Georgia in Athens. Held them scoreless while racking up 31 points while the game was still in doubt. There's no comparison. Saban has had a season and the better part of a second one, and one real full recruiting class, and he's put together a team that is going to destroy us in six days, finish the regular season undefeated, and probably play a hell of a game with Florida for the SEC championship.

Making the decision to promote Malveto significantly undermined any confidence I had in Miles. Saying what he's saying about it is undermining it more. If there's not a change, I'll have completely lost confidence in him. This is Gerry DiNardo 1998 until Miles demonstrates otherwise.

Do you idiots actually expect Miles to get up at a press conference and pin our defensive struggles on the coaching staff? Do you people routinely throw people you work with under the bus in public? I'll bet that just does wonders for morale and confidence in the office. Don't be stupid. This will get handled behind closed doors, whatever the outcome. We will not hear anything about it until the final decisiond are made. I would lose respect for Miles if he did call out his staff publically.

Misey, I never referred to his not calling out the DCs. I said the only way to get a DC would be to fire an assistant coach. There is a limit in place on the number of coaches a team can have and LSU is at the max.

I just don't see Miles firing them. It's not like him.

I don't like the Co DC, but i will at least give him a chance to fix the problem if things do not improve the rest of the season. Not much you can do about the qb problem. They are young and just need to learn. RP was supposed to be our QB for at least another year, so these guys were thrown in early.

GeauxBob, you really need a beer. In my little circle of friends, Miles is teased but respected. 'm good with that.

Ask your Michigan friends how much they're wishing Miles would've returned to the Big House.

And ask your USC friends how they like having top tier recruiting classes every year and see Carroll choke on the big ones.

And ask your OU friends how they view Stoops' ability to win the big one.

Miles is quirky, hardheaded, loyal, honest, and our athletes love him. AND HE WINS GAMES. I can't think of much else I want in a coach.



and to LM

On a scale of 1-10, about a 7 now. Before the season a 10. Great recruiter. His AC hires on the offense side last year were great.

The one thing that concerns me is not how poorly the D has played this far nor the co-DC thing but that he has not conveyed (at least to the public) any sense of urgency to rectify things on defense.

I get the impression that Les feels that Pelini's defenses over the past three years set the standard and the challenge is to get this year's outfit up to that standard. Les doesn't seem to have a vision of dominance on defense.

My level of trust in Miles has decreased a lot b/c of the defensive situation. I think it was a huge mistake (easy to say in hindsight, of course) to not go get an established DC after last season. A lot of my loss of confidence is that I don't think he'll make a change after the season, but I hope I'm wrong.

That said, Miles recruits so well and he did such a wonderful job picking our OC (I like Crowton a lot) that I think we'd be way, way worse without him than with him, even with incompetent DCs

You don't back into anything in football! Everyone plays their schedule and not all teams end the season at the same time. So what if someone beats the #1 team in it's last game, it counts as much as if that team lost a week earlier.

Back into....bullshite!