Was Les Miles coming to LSU a good idea? true fans respond!!!

1 billion rep points for you!

 

Looks like I am in minority...

I think this was a great hire. You don't see many BCS head coaches leaving to go to another BCS unless fired. I think that it says something for LSU as a whole that both Saban and Miles are in this category; this has not happened at any other major school that I know of.

Having said that...I don't get everyone's infatuation with hiring an NFL coordinator...all you have to do is look at Ron Zook. They are not proven recruiters and do not take the load on of a head coach. As a president of a company, I personally know that it is lot different being a mid-level manager or executive manager than having to accept responsibility of all things included with being the man...I know because I feel like a failure as president compared with my previous success as a subordinate.

Of the head coaches that were interested, Miles was my choice for no other reason than leadership. With young men, this goes as far if not farther than x&o brilliance as far getting the best out of them. At the college level, I think this is more critical than at the profressional level. Everything that I have read about Miles says that he is a leader much like Nick Saban. Given his leadership and obviously more affiable personality, he could surpass Saint Nick's success if he like any successful CEO of a company surrounds himself with good people. Based upon the resumes of his staff, the pedigree is there...even with Clay.

I know the Clay bashing has been constant but if you look at his resume, his success at schools where his recruiting opportunities were on par with competition, he was very successful. People that try to voice their competency evaluations without including in their analysis talent/task relevancy are the ones that work dead-end hourly jobs.

A+ hire...supporting staff??? too early to tell!!

 

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better coaching skills

i dont think he proved himself worthy....i say that because others have told me that....i dont think he has proved himself a good coach....now id say he might be a tad bit beter than nick saban.....but they are both needing better coaching skills

 

Fanatic...obviously...

you are in one of those dead-end hourly jobs based upon your deeply philosophical response. Did you learn 'blahblahblah' in high school or in your GED exam crash course?

 

I can only disagree.

I can only disagree with what you have said. I hope I am proven wrong, but the odds are with me that I am correct. When you have a big time program, you hire up or sideways, not down and HOPE that your leader will be successful and bring you back to where you currently are, already.

That is all Skip has done to this point.
Hired someone who MAY bring us back to the level that we are at right now.

Miles is a stretch, everyone knows it, and no one is questioning Skip as to why he needed to rush such an importanat decision and interview so few mediocre candidates. So what if we lose one or five recruits, since when has one player been bigger than the program as a whole. By hiring Miles, we are only lowering our expectations and HOPING!

 

Very good hire IMO. Les Miles inherits an LSU team that loses 5 Starters from the National Championship team. Ben Wilkerson, Marcus Spears, Corey Webster, Travis Daniels & Lionel Thomas. He's still putting together his staff, so it's hard to comment on that. I saw the press conference, and was came away pretty impressed with the man. He was a good recruiter in an area where OU, Texas, and about 20 other mid-level to minor level Texas teams all fish from the same talent pool. I don't expect LSU to have many discipline problems, and he seems to be strong on academics. Miles was named 2002 Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year. :thumb:

 

This is a terrible hire, look someone earlier used the Ron Zook example as an NFL Coordinator which he never was, Zook was not ready to take over a program of that level and everyone knew it. Here we have the same situation, a coach who wins half of his conference games, and is not ready for a program of this size and complexity. This was a speed/panic hire and Skip knows it. They never even looked at a Romeo Crennel from the Patriots. Do you have any idea how many kids would line up to play for the former defensive coordinator of the Patriots?

I still do not see the need to rush, this guy won two games against OU but also lost his last one 52-9. Is that what we want? Urban Meyer, Phil Fulmer and Tubberville will eat his lunch. This guy lasts two years max.

 

So your hire would have been Crennel? And you consider that a big step up from Miles?

Has he ever recruited? Has he ever coached in college?

I understand some concerns about Miles, but you gotta bring a better name than that to make an argument.

I'm still waiting for someone to give the name of a big name coach LSU should have hired...

 

Urban Meyer?? Could you tell me about the "Size and Complexity" of UTAH's Program? Urban has 4 years (2 at Mighty...Bowling Green) total coaching Nowhere & playing Nobody. The Mountain West Conference vs. Big 12?? :nope: