Easy sister...weren't you the one claiming the tough OOC schedule for USC because they had to go ON THE ROAD to...NEBRASKA!!!! Troy would've SMOKED Nebraska this year. :hihi: Although, I agree...the schedule's not that tough next year. Certainly not as bad as LAST year.
I'd say 01 SEC Champions, and 03 SEC, National Champions. Other than that I wouldn't say anything I'm not gonna compare either coaches. Just doesn't matter to me. In the end you'll find few people who remember what the record was for certain years if you don't have the hardware in the showcase. LSU has a good shot at doing that this year if UT wins.
That could easily be an 8-9 win schedule. Yes, we lose seniors. Believe it or not it happens every four years.
Why you always gotta' bring USC in to this? :hihi: OOC scheduling is always a crapshoot (unless it's Tulame or Troy ) since it's done so far in advance. No way to know when a team is going to take a dump and ruin your SOS. Who would have thought the irish would have their worst season just about ever? And Nebraska has been a solid team with a great history. They were solid scheduling choices. When you schedule the Appy St.'s, that's when you get in trouble. A loss to a team like that (or Stanford) can kill your NC hopes. Trust me on that one.
If you remember the '01 season...which I'm sure you do...there was an AWFUL lot of luck there. This is only Les' third season, and he too has a good shot at an SECC. I don't INITIATE the comparing of coaches...but I do respond to it. It's like NO other team has talent except LSU. When has UF, USC, OU, et al been out of the top 10 in recruiting in the past several years? For that matter, ND, F$U, Thug U...yet they too have nothing to show for it...except a couple of losing seasons. Les has recruited as well as Saban did...and it's all his next year. If he loses 3 games, does that make him a bad coach? Does it make his predeccesor a BETTER coach? Miles makes some dumb decisions...as did Saban. We don't lose to Arky in '02 or Iowa in '04 without dumb decisions. I constantly read complaints about Les playing upperclassmen when the underclassmen are so "obviously better". Check an Alabama board after a loss to MSU or ULM and read how they don't understand JPW still being the QB. It happens to EVERYONE at some point. OU, with all that talent...lost to friggin' Colorado! USC, with all that talent...(more talent than LSU, I might add)...lost to friggin' STANFORD! ND, with all that talent...lost to EVERYBODY!!! We lost to an 8-4 SEC team with the best RB in the country, AND...the second best RB in the country. And, we lost to the team with the best QB (opinion...but definitely ONE of the best) in the country. It happens.:geauxtige
if miles is here next year...we'll be lucky to be in the cotton bowl... at least with a new coach, we'll hopefully be unpredicatble...at least enough that the old ladies in my section aren't calling the plays we are about to run.
I've seen the distance of travel to road games mentioned quite often on the USC boards when dismissing the SEC and it's tough road games. The thing I don't understand is why distance of travel seems more important than the actual venue you're traveling to. I'd like to consider myself an objective college football fan. I don't think that the PAC-10 road venues are as difficult to play in as those in the SEC when you view them as a whole. Plus, the majority of Division I college football teams are on the Eastern portion of the country. So the travel for USC or any west coast team will most likely be further, but why does that instantly make it better or tougher? Honestly just curious as to that mindset.
Hmm...Bob Stoops, Pete Carrol, Urban Meyer, Bobby Bowden...need I go on? All coaches who have had talent and tanked some years. I'll take Les' record against those guys any day and twice on Saturday.
I'm on board with your overall premise but tanked? USC under PC has been in the hunt since his first year went in the books.
