Thomas Williams
LSU and Louisiana has some truly great college football players trying to do their best for the LSU tiger football fans entertainment. That we all enjoy seeing every Saturday very much.
Les Miles was more of an entertainer that played up to the Sports reporters, alumni, and fans, for the Show sake then a college football coach with the winning intangibles who thoroughly knows what he's doing. And when he did not get the winning cards playing against Alabama, Arkansas, Ole Miss, he had nothing left to play. No substance as a man who could really coach.
And could not even help his talented LSU football player like LSU RB Leonard Fournette make a first down, or score from the 1 yard line with four downs to make it with. Now that the media who has laugh at him like a cartoon character over the years is saying glowing praise for Les Miles 700+ winning record. And is now criticizing the LSU board of supervisors changing this LSU football programs direction. So how do you like those apples LSU tiger football fans "The Ole War Skuel "is now damn if they do, and damn if they don't?
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Why firing Les Miles could totally backfire on LSU
By Stewart Mandel Nov 23, 2015 at 3:56p ET
In 11 seasons at LSU, Les Miles has averaged exactly 10 wins per season. He’s won two SEC titles and a national championship. He holds the highest winning percentage (.775) of any Tigers coach since 1908.
And he is about to be run out of town.
What started as surprising (outside of Louisiana) chatter last week about Miles’ possible ouster now appears to be fait accompli following LSU’s third straight blowout defeat. The Tigers have nosedived after starting 7-0 and reaching No. 2 in the playoff rankings, and Saturday’s 38-17 loss to Ole Miss played right into the hands of the school’s deep-pocketed critics. On Sunday, NOLA.com reported that the program’s booster arm, the Tiger Athletic Foundation, is prepared to spend the $15 million necessary to buy out the coach. This after a board of regents member publically questioned the direction of the program.
If all this sounds just a bit insane ... that’s because it is.
Miles’ downfall apparently began when his 13-0 team suffered a humiliating 21-0 defeat to Nick Saban’s Alabama in the 2011 BCS championship game rematch. Miles has not defeated his predecessor — to whom he’s always been unfairly judged against — in four meetings since. LSU’s 8-5 record last season was its worst since 2008 but there was little indication he’d be feeling any heat if this team lost three games.
Furthermore, over the past two years, Miles has landed the program’s best recruiting classes in some time, headlined by superstars like Leonard Fournette, and is currently sitting on the No. 1 class for 2016, per 247Sports. But apparently, Miles’ notoriously conservative offense and yearslong inability to develop proficient quarterbacks has simply become too much to bear.
If LSU does in fact pull the plug following Saturday’s regular-season finale against Texas A&M, it will face considerable pressure to land a home run replacement. The presumed top choice will be Florida State coach and former Tigers offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher, who’s long held an affinity for the SEC. If they get him, many may view the hire as an upgrade.
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