Corndawg

All the reports were that Minter stumbled off the line and has already said he will run at the pro day, wouldn't be surprised to see him run high 4.6 low 4.7 at LSU.

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Why people acting as if Miles is the wrong guy for the job? He is an excellent choice to run LSU football program and many schools wish they had him. If you want to criticize, attack his choice of OC and the fact that he needs to give total control to a guy who knows modern offensive football.

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You realize his choice for OC and his being too stubborn to give up control to a guy who "know's modern football" is a DIRECT reflection of him. As the HC you're responsible for what happens in your program PERIOD...

That's like saying we shouldn't be mad when a US president picks a joke of a VP and then forces his ideas down the American peoples throat against their will ...... WAIT :banghead:

I'm saying that in recent years when playing "elite" teams with "elite" coaches, his win/lose record is taking a hit...

Are these "elite" programs figuring out Les and putting LSU at a disadvantage in these games? if you go back to the 09-10 season of the 9 loses all but 1 were to teams ranked in the top 12 when we played them, LSU scored on average 13pts per game. This is during a period of time that LSU has been considered in the top 2 or 3 talented teams in the country, does that help clear up the question?

Miles has had a reputation as being able to get his teams up for big games and having them ready to play with extra time to prepare, is that still an accurate repuation?

I know a lot of Miles supporters like to spout off about his record at LSU, I'll be the first to admit that it's impressive, but I'm looking at an alarming trend and wanted to get your opinion on it...

His "used to be perfect bowl record" is now 1-3 in the last 4 with 2 of them being embarrassing loses and the last 5 loses to teams in the top 12 at the time of the game. I understand that those 5 loses were over a 3 year period but my question is simply this... Are the elite teams/coaches figuring out Les's weaknesses and taking advantage of them to a point that LSU is now at a disadvantage when facing them?

Seems as though these 1 possession loses have some things in common... either lack of exacution or coaches putting them in poor positions to make the correct play.. Both coaches have made poor calls that cost them games but if you line them head to head for an equal match up with equal time to prepare you see the result 1/09... It's unfortuate but true.

Yes we are a top tier program without a doubt but it seems as though we a game or 2 every year that in spite of Les not because of him. These type of thing will keep you from being a "team of the decade"

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these statements contradict each other

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Actually they don't at all.. Krags was brought here because of his experience with QB development and creativity in the passing game and ability to call plays... Because of his illness he can't do that, it's not that he was going to completely change the offense but just use Les's offense more creatively, again he can't do that in his present role. Stud does what is ask of him by Miles, as Krags has helped Mett along it's given Less a little more confidence to open up a little more but it's still Les's offense..

There is a difference between being an innovator and creative, I hope you can see that.

Again I'm not bashing Stud, but the fact is certain coaches are limited in certain areas, he may be the best thing to coach an O-Line in the history of football but it doesn't make him a great OC ie Tedford would be an upgrade over Stud.. I'm not saying fire Stud and hire Tedford, merely stating a fact.

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ole sam. the energy he brings to the front seven will be missed more than the energy TM7 brought to the back end of our defense

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True on keeping Sam but false on the TM7 comment... TM7 was, for some strange reason, the entire attitude of our defense...

Herm Edwards may be as smart a coach as Les Miles would you agree???

This morning on Mike and Mike he was quoted as saying that as a HC or OC you have to fit the scheme to the players not the players to the scheme....

So to the original question I'll again answer NO I'm not smarter than Les when it comes to football but I'll go on record for saying that Herm Edwards is at least as smart as him and he knows that you can't keep trying to fit a square peg in a round hole...

Also Mett even kinda called out the play calling in the paper today... " We may need to have a little more variety in our play calling"

Now we really can keep going back abnd forth about stats from last year all the back to 2005 if you want but they don't mean jack shite to this years team because as this team stands TODAY the offensive scheme has got to change.

The obvious answer is NO to the OP....

The next obvious answer is that Les has become very predictable and opposing D-Cor are figuring out how to stop his scheme with the lose of starters due to injury and the fact that most of them have seen the exact same offense for the past 4.5 years... I agree to a large % that it has worked for the most part and hasn't had to change but once people have caught up to it and the talent level has evened out then you have to adapt... This my friend has not been Les's strong suit and if an idiot like me can see it then the best D-cor's in college football certainly can as well.

We're going to have to figure out ways to get mismatches against their defense and not let them exploit our glaring weakness' on offense. This line is blocking as well as it's going to the rest of the year due to injury and players being forced out of position... That being said as these coaches get paid very well to coach they need to come up with ways to play to what strengths we do have on offense. They're not going to be able to be the power run the ball down your throat team they were even in the begining of this year because they aren't the same team. As soon as Miles realizes that and quits being so stubborn we will be much more competitive offensively... The keys of not fumbling and catching the ball are obvious but what's even more obvious is that with an injured O-line, inexperienced QB, and inconsistant production at WR that D-cor's have caught up to Les and his scheme is no longer effective.

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So, Connor Shaw is going to lead them in and out of TS dominantly

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The simple answer is NO... but the combination of Shaw, Latt(best RB in the country), and The best DE in the nation can come into Tiger stadium and beat LSU due to our problems on the O-line and our Defense wearing down due to lack of offense. I will be rooting like hell for the Tigers but unless we figure out how to stop Clowney and pick up the backside blitz then we're looking more 3 and outs and that wears your defense out. With a power running game like their's it wears your defense out quicker...

Major adjustments needed in offense production and philosophy to put us back into title talk on any level. I can tell you that #3 in the country is not the best team in the country to have to work on things against.