Les Miles will do something this season that has only been done once before in the annals of college football history. This will be Miles tenth season at LSU and only one other coach in history has amassed 100+ wins in his first ten years at one school..... in his first ten seasons at Florida, Steve Spurrier won 102 games while losing 22. Miles stands at 95 wins right now and if the Tigers do as expected and win 10 games or more Les Miles will have the most wins in the history of college football for ANY coach in his first ten years at one school. Not Bear Bryant, not Joe Paterno or Bobby Bowden or even little midget nicky......but Les Miles. Now true, more games are played today and those numbers will increase with the CFP coming, but it is a remarkable achievement nonetheless. I actually came up with this on my own. I was at college football data warehouse just perusing the website because I am always interested in college football history and the idea just struck me how successful Miles has been here and I began wondering how he stacked up against some of the all time greats that actually coached ten years or more at one school. By comparison, Charles McClendon won 79 games his first ten years at LSU and Bernie Moore 62.....and those are the only two Tiger coaches with more than ten seasons in Baton Rouge......Les catches a lot of flak from fans that don't know just how successful he has been and the rarified air that he has elevated the LSU program to. And with the coaching staff that he has assembled and the recruits he is bringing in, the next ten years may be better than his first ten......
I missed Bob Stoops.....107 wins his first ten seasons......sorry for the faulty research guys.....but still within reach for Miles......and forget about the midget.....buma is on a two game losing streak that is going to get worse.....
Well I doubt that will happen, I can't stand the guy but he can flat out coach. He may drop some here and there but one thing is for sure he won't lay an egg on a whole season. I think it great for Les to reach that milestone (no pun intended) he deserves it. He has worked hard for LSU and I like his style. He infuriates me at times, but then again the heart attack cats have been doing that since I was in diapers. It seems for the most part there are a handful of coaches that can burn that candle for many years, which is a lot tougher to do than burn hot for a championship or two and call it quits. Good info thanks for the research.
You forget there are still some bitter dogs out there that felt Gawga was the best team at the end of 07. Even though they shit the bed against Tenn.
They may have been but the crystal is in Baton Rouge. We were the best team in 11 and fell victim to the do over with the midget. The trophy is in Tusker Ville. You have to win the one that counts to be the best. Unfortunately some people can not just be happy with the quality of there team if they don't win it all. Society dictates it and we live by it. I personally have been enjoying the best of LSU football, regardless of where we finish. We have witnessed some fabulous football play in the last decade, that includes that great win with the midget against Tennessee. That game was the turning point IMO of the greatness we have been experiencing. God help us if we ever get back to the point where our fan base just expects us to lose. Even Saban can't win them all. A few plays here and there and he is only sitting on one crystal in Tusker Ville.
LSU's 2-loss MNC would be an issue if they had lost, but they didn't. They won and while those two losses stand out, the fact that no one else had as impressive of the numbers of wins as LSU that year should stand out as well.
Not easy when there are five ranked teams in the SEC West Division. The best three teams in the country could be in the SECW and two of them will never reach the SECCG or the playoffs. It is a serious dog-eat-dog situation like exists nowhere else in the NCAA. Year-in and year-out. Makes ya' mean . . .