How would you feel about our season if Saban was the coach?

Hah! You must not have been on LSU message forums last year!

 

Maybe to some degree, but not even close to what's going on now.

People still felt good about the future with our coaching.

This year, in all honesty, was not much different than last season and somehow Miles is a terrible coach but Saban wasn't.

 

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to CParso again.

 

If we had the same staff this year as last, we would have performed better in the Arky and SECCG.

The Cap One Bowl last year was an abberation for Saban. The players and coaches were very distracted, because they knew that they were going to have a new HC and coaching staff next season. That causes too many things going on in your head to allow for much focus on the game.

The jury is still out on this coaching staff regarding whether they can 1) develop players throughout their time at LSU, 2) improve overall team play as the season progresses, and 3) out-coach our primary enemies in the SEC. I'm cutting Coach Miles some slack on recruiting, because it appears that he can recruit.

Of course, with our staff last year, we had none of these concerns.

 

It would make no difference to me I think miles has done a nice job, but I would rather have the Saban discipline. I miss the fire and intensity Saban had for the game from the sidelines!

 

And after LaRon Landry is injured, Saban dresses out and makes the winning TD on a pick-for-six!! Yeah, Baby!

Let's hop back on the Reality Train.

 

Jesuit & Jean, I know it's difficult but pay attention to what I wrote in the post.

 

I remember, vividly, the chastising that I sustained when I voiced my "anger" of the movement and postponement of the LSU games after the hurricane. Initially, all I cared about was LSU football. Hey, I'm young (21,) and could not fathom such a tragedy that the hurricane had brought upon us. However, once I got to experience the problems, first hand, I realized pretty fast that what had happened (to US) trumped the importance of football no matter HOW you sliced it. At that point, LSU football was just something that I saw as a way to get my mind off of things. The Arizona State game was the proudest I've EVER felt to be affiliated with the state Louisiana and being an LSU fan--yes, prouder than in 2003! The fact that we won was just icing on the cake. For the UT game, I got out of class at 3:40 and hauled ass to BR (from Thibodaux,) and made it JUST in time to see LSU and be there for those players. During the pregame, I had to fight back tears. The emotion I felt was indescribable... to this day all I remember of that pregame is a blur... it was intense. It's funny how soon those same people who had chastised me before are the same ones bitching about CLM and the team. How soon they forget... I've been saying this since day one: This LSU team should (but won't) go down in the history books as one of the greatest achievements in sports history. I'm serious here. I'm the same age as these kids, and you have NO idea how tough it was just to attend class and see triage units and sick people... NO idea. I can't understand how these men put together a ten win season under such circumstances. God himself could have been the coach and it wouldn't have mattered, it was in these guys' hearts. Everyone that has been bitching should feel ashamed. I am proud of this team. They could be 0-12 and I'd still be wearing my LSU gear with pride. Sorry for the emotion... but I guess that has been needing to come out.

 

Oops, this was about Saban huh? Hmmm, like I said before, God himself could have been the coach and it would not have mattered. I feel OK with Miles... this is a learning experience... Had Saban been the coach... I'd still be proud of this team, but.. in different ways. Not as much as by the way they played, but HOW they played.

 

Ya know... I hope you're being sarcastic. Take a jab at me all you want, I don't care. But take NOTHING away from what those guys did on the field jesuit.