Critics of coach Miles really need a reality check. They seriously do. He's about 2-4 more seasons from being the winningest coach in school history, has a national title (one of three in the entire history of the school if you weren't aware) and recruits better than 95% of the country. Sure, we should have won a couple more games last year, and sure, the season before that was also a disappointment. But that's football, for every winner, there is a loser. It's a zero-sum game. Coach Miles isn't the only coach with a high salary and a talented roster. To win 10 or 11 games in the SEC, you need more than just talent and want-to. It's about getting lucky with weather (ie, not the Cap One Bowl), officiating (ie, not the Alabama game) or having veteran leadership to help keep composure in late situations (ie, not the Ole Miss game). The difference between 11-2 and 9-4 in the SEC is razor thin.
He's got kind of a 1-post troll profile, but I appreciate you folks giving him the benefit of the doubt. If he never posts again, we'll know for sure.
Anyone who believes that was an innocent question, I have some land for sale in between Venice and Grand Isle for you. Nobody joins up and posts without reading around. Just another stirrer. - And QB Luke, if I could, I would give you more reputation. Excellent post!
Good Post!! And in some years, it helps to have a little luck with the scheduling. LSU gets both UNC and WV in an "arrow up" year for them... a bad luck of the draw, given schedules are usually made up a few years in advance. Drawing a senior-laden UNC team in the ONE YEAR they might be good is not the same as Alabama, for example, getting the advantage of scheduling Penn State in a year PSU is picked to be 4th or 5th in the Big Ten. According to bleacherreport.com, LSU will face three of the top 5 defensive backfields in the nation in their first six games: #5 VW, # 4 Florida, and # 1 UNC. Big Ern's College Football Unit Rankings: Defensive Backfield | Bleacher Report UNC also has a top 5 linebacker unit. Given your already tough SEC schedule, you might easily be asked this year to perform against the toughest schedule in the country... particularly if UNC and VW go on to win their conferences. I'm not sure if Miles is "automatically" a bad coach if you happen to lose three or four games against that schedule.
i grow tired of people talking about how les miles is a bad coach because he did it on Saban's recruit when fact of the matter is that Saban just won a title .... with shula's players does that me we must strip the title from saban and Give to mike shula? the problem is not Les Miles the problem was the O-line , Gary Crowton , and Ryan Periloux
welcome tough crowd sometimes 2 or 3 guys here are LSU English majors well you know how that goes one guy from Bama that is cool!! oh yea !!! watch em because it is some kind of code for being stupid don't dog out Les very often and agree with the 5 or 6 guys that post all the time thats about it :tigereye:
