Belly Up To The Bar, Tiger Fans!

Let it be known...Take part in this poll, and then respond on how you voted. I will expect everyone who votes to have a post explaining it.

BTW-Those of you who disagree with this hire...Think carefully about who you are agreeing with amongst the LSU Fanbase.

Anyone who is ready to tell you that they agree whole-heartedly with ramah's assessment of a sports-related situation of any type...Well, I'll just keep it to myself...

 

perhaps I missed something, TE....I don't see a poll....

 

I said I support it why ? Do I have a choice, no and as far as I am concerned Miles is now and LSU Tiger and I support ALL LSU tigers.

 

I support, and I have supported it since it came out after the bowl game Les was the man. I think my countless posts defending the Miles hiring has let everyone here know my feelings about this hire.

Get ready for some exciting times Tiger fans. And if for some awful reason I am wrong and Miles fails, I will belly up to the bar as TE says and take my lashings from the neysayers.

mesquite out! :thumb:

 

I can see it, and others can, too...Because they've voted...I see ramah has "bellied up" as well!

LOL!

 

I'll admit that while I was never opposed to hiring Miles, I didn't know enough about him. But over the last few days, I've "done my homework" so-to-speak and I was impressed with what he's done at OSU, with hands-down less talent than should be needed to have the success he's had.

Further more, after listening to his PC this afternoon, hearing him say that he's aware of what got us here, the type of football we play, and his decision to coach to our strengths and his over-all good-natured humor, really put me at ease. I'm happy to have Miles as our coach.

I think he'll do a wonderful job. It was great to hear what Livings, Skyler and other current players give their first impressions of their new coach. After all--those are the guys that matter most.

 

I don't think option #3 should have been included. I mean, people can think its a good or bad hire at this time and still be open to reconsidreing based on on-field (W-L) and off-field (discipline,recruiting) performance.

I don't think Les was the best LSU could do, no question. I was displeased to see that, words to the contrary, Skip Bertman and LSU were not committed to finding the "right fit" for LSU regardless of recruiting and such. The search lasted a week, or some five days less than the ND search.

Adding another 3-5 days to the search wouldn't have killed anyone and may have given LSU a chance to speak to others; this may not have been the case--perhaps they hadn't received "feelers" from anyone other than JDR on the NFL level--and if it wasn't the case then deciding on Les makes more sense.

Not being an insider of any sort, I personally do not know.

I think it's unfortunate that the LSU job has gone from, during Nick Saban's time, an end-all, be-all, wouldn't leave it for another college job to a potential incubator for Micigan's sucessor to Lloyd Carr.

I hope I'm wrong, and I hope Les is more than up for the challenge that lies ahead. I believe he's a talented coach and motivator, but I do not believe that, all things being equal, he was "the best" LSU could have done.

(PS-Les is not *really* going to have Bill Clay as his DC...is he?)

 

I will wait to see who he has on has staff before making a decision

 

William Jenkins let is slip-and I can't believe that this hasn't come out-that they knew about the decision for a long time before Saban actually made it...Someone who recorded it can go back in and listen to it to verify this...But he tried to hurry up and cover that up, but I thought it was interesting...Evidently, the Saban/Miami hiring all along was a foregone conclusion...

In other words, the search took a lot longer than you think...Because LSU knew Saban was gone a lot longer than you think...

 

So what are you saying, exactly? That LSU had been searching well before Saban made his decision---which I always assumed they had on some level, just in a hush-hush manner---and the best weeks of preliminary and open searching ended up producing was...Les Miles?

I just want to be clear on what you're inferring here. If they flipped Les Miles upside down and sideways, looked at him under a microscope and thought he was our #1 guy, then fine...though the last-ditch attempt to talk to JDR this weekend suggests not everyone involved in the search was quite so enamored with Les as being the #1 guy all along.