Last night was a total beatdown in every way. Auburn could have named the score. Thanks Gus for not running it up. Mississippi State was a total beatdown. Make no mistake about that even though we were lulled into a false hope by the "almost comeback" and Brandon Harris's efforts. In the two SEC games the John Chavis defense has given up well over 1100 yards. In the two SEC games the Cam Cameron offense has been unimaginative, predictable and stagnant. Les Miles might not call all the plays but he is the CEO of the team. The buck stops at the no longer feared Hat. From 2005 through 2007 Les was willing to play to win, not just play not to lose. After the debacle of 2008 he took off his thinking cap and put the process on remote control. Do what it takes to win most of the games and keep that overinflated paycheck for years. We as fans were given false hope in 2010 that Les was still the same coach that made him successful. A close loss to eventual national champion Auburn and a fluky loss in the last regular season game to Arkansas combined with fluky wins against Tennessee and Florida and the future looked bright. The 2011 year was magical until the end but for whatever reasons Les started to fumble some of his coaching decisions even before that embarrassing display of incompetence in New Orleans.Greg Studrawa actually did a pretty good job with Jarrett Lee. He was leading the SEC in several passing categories until Les replaced him for good with Jordan Jefferson and left Lee to permanently languish on the bench. At some point in the season that first hint of dementia must have entered Les's brain. For all of his talk of "a want to compete for championships" the reality is that since 2008 Les has had a "want to play not to lose" I'm not going to rehash all the totally baffleing player personnel and offensive style decisions, Its pretty much all been said here ad finitum and none of us can understand why he would do things like recruit dual threat quarterbacks and put them running the Power I with two tight ends and having them play under center instead of the pistol or shotgun or I'll stop on this subject before I start pulling my hair out and banging my head against the wall. I have been very critical of Les Miles in the past but I have also given him his due when it was deserved. Despite the fact that he drives us crazy even when he is winning I haven't called for his head- UNTIL NOW! LSU may be able to win one or maybe even two more games this season or maybe none at all. I don't see how they beat anybody. They can't sustain drives. They can't block. They can't stop the run or the pass. Play like this is going to kill recruiting. Kids don't want to go somewhere where they will suffer beatdowns and be embarressed in front of millions on national TV. Even Les sounded shell shocked on his radio interview last night. This year is already down the toilet. If Miles doesn't do something to identify the reasons and fix the problems 2015 will be the same. This is painful to watch. Give Miles one more year and if he doesn't right the ship the Board of Supervisors should bite the bullet and pay that buyout money.
I love that if you say say so much as, "Hey, this guy has won a lot of games. Maybe he's not a total shithead. Isn't the point of football winning?" - you're a 'sunshine pumper.'
Thanks for using paragraphs on such a lengthy rant. Readers appreciate that And you know, some minions would have not put in a single para.
