Agree. Maybe Cameron is the answer and our young QBs will come around, but with so little passing output in 10 years, I'd think even the pumpers could understand a little trepidation. We aren't seeing the improvement now, we've reverted to Miles standard no passing game. There are reasons to doubt that gaping hole is plugged.
Perhaps. On the other hand, this is a rebuilding year with a young team in the toughest year, in the toughest division, of the toughest league in college football. It takes a little longer to get things straight in a damn strong season like this.
Please don't trash Saban and defend Miles by talking about how lucky Saban has been, as if Miles hasn't had all kinds of luck. Saban is flawed, but a hell of a coach who has lapped Miles and is in position to compete for another NC. The Saban bashing tends to lack objectivity. There is plenty to bash, why resort to using two different metrics for these guys?
The post to which I was responding said that Saban only had 8 win seasons at the beginning of his tenure at LSU. That is simply untrue. And why can Miles be called lucky while Saban benefits from being a hell of a coach who doesn't need luck to win? Horseshit.
They've both had luck; Saban's had more success than Miles, therefore I think Saban gets a little more credit for his luck. If we were all Tide fans I'd be criticizing Saban, y'all'd be defending everything he did, and I doubt any of us would be too concerned about Miles as long as QB was an issue for him.
The pumpers can say what they want. As of now, right now. Saban 6 Miles 3. He owns him. Not only that, he is now in his head and quite possibly the teams head. 80% all you want. He wins about 10% of the ones that matter. Beating up on Lil sisters of the poor don't count for much.
I honestly don't believe Miles is going to Mich. However, I can definitely see a few reasons while he might wish to do so, starting with the fact that he would really only have one or two decent teams to worry about every year in Ohio State and Wisconsin, and Wisconsin seems to be losing their identity with their new coach so they might not be their typical selves much longer. Compare that to the SEC, and now with the West being loaded for bear, he must realize that he has little in the way of chance to get out of the division, let alone the conference on a regular basis. However, at Mich. if he schedules one decent out of conference game each year he will be set and only have to beat one really good team and a bunch of cupcakes along the way. The way the B1G schedule rotates, he wouldn't even have to play both OSU and UW every year. This puts him into contention for a NC or at least a Rose Bowl birth on a very regular basis. In BIG 10 country, the Rose Bowl is king, and is a bigger deal to them than the Sugar Bowl is to us. They would obviously pay him whatever he wanted, and he could go down as a legend there if he turns the program around. With the way he recruits, he could probably compete with OSU within a couple of years, and let's face it, I grew up in the heart of BIG 10 country, and they love the hell out of run, run, pass up there. They would see it as channeling Bo Schembeckler and love him even more for it, while down here people hate it. Again, I don't think he is going, but if it were to happen, I could see some reasons for it.
Because Saban is a respected coach who has a history of fielding NC caliber teams. I think Miles is a respected coach as well, but is seen with a bit of stank and a solid but less consistent history of success at the highest level. LSU in recent years gets pretty good respect in the polls, but then they lose.
