Jaime Howard had one very bad game, but overall was a good quarterback. And he had big brass balls coming back his senior year and making up for that bad game. If you think Les was a bad coach, you should have been around for Hudson Hallman. He was the one truly to blame for the Auburn debacle. He kept calling that same rollout pass play in which Howard was supposed to throw to the receiver if he was open and throw it away if he was not. After 2 pick sixes, he should have realized that Howard was not understanding the play and either pulled Howard or pulled the goddamn play. Don't leave him in for two more, lose a 30 point lead, and the game.
Very bad decision making by Curley but how is that any worse that refusing to bench Jordan Jefferson and at least trying to win with Jarrett Lee in the second half of the 2011 BCSNC?
That was probably the worst offensive coaching in the history of football. Just hand the damn ball off with a huge lead and the LSU defense playing lights out. You surely don't keep calling the same failed play over and over, handing AU their only chance of coming back. The footage of DC Phil Bennett crying after the game tells it all.
Both bad decisions. The difference was that Les got his team to the national championship game undefeated and lost to another top team. Auburn was a horrible team and Curly led us to four straight losing seasons. Not a couple of 8-win seasons. Four totally losing seasons. It was a whole different level of bad.
It was worse, because LSU had that game won and Hallman did the only thing that could give AU even the slightest chance of making a comeback AND HE DID IT OVER AND OVER!!!!!!
Seems to me like making a horrible decision and sticking with it in a game for all the marbles is worse than just causing your mediocre team to blow a game against a bad team. There wasn't much at stake other than pride for LSU-Auburn but for LSU-Alabama the game meant everything.
Meh, he didn't have the support needed to do that- starting from the coach on down. You can put the best jockey in the world on a donkey and he won't win the Kentucky Derby. Doesn't mean it's the jockey. With Miles, the talent is there, thankfully AND thanks TO him. He's money except when it comes to a QB. Nobody is questioning Saban. He's never had an ON-GOING deficit at the QB postion.
