Sounds to me like taint might have a buddy. Hard to believe anyone is still buying into this "Oh but Les has won" garbage. Les is an idiot. A bumbling idiot that can't get out of his own way even with signs pointing to the right path. The sooner he is gone the better.
2012 10-3 2013 10-3 2014 8-5 2015 9-3 I'd say the drop off started 2014 with the current group of players. I believe they are not as talented as past groups especially the Oline, Dline, and the QB. Miles has done a tremendous job at LSU. Winning seasons really do not suck.
You get a scarecrow for this post. Last 3 years of recruits have been stellar. The problem at LSU can be summed up with a line from the Karate Kid; "No such thing as bad student, teacher say student do" Bad teacher for offense especially. Here is your scarecrow above
Talent means squat if it is not properly coached, I give you Mac Brown and Mark Ritch as glowing examples of having great talent year in and year out and being disgustingly average. "Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining" By the way professor Grasshopper had a great teacher and he was blind
Mac Brown was allot like Saban at LSU. Both won one national championship and had relatively decent years other than the one great one. Telling everyone how great they are does not mean squat. This group of players have been together the last couple of years. Did you really believe based on there performance they were a top 5 team? Did you really believe they were better than Wisconsin after watching them play us in Houston? The powers of college football change all the time. Oklahoma/Nebraska Florida State/Miami Ohio State/Michigan USC/Texas Alabama/LSU. I will take this program and all the winning seasons versus the alternative any day. Winning two out of three National championship games in the last 13 years. If this is average I love average!
I have personally moved past the 'Les doesn't know how to coach a QB' and sit firmly in the camp of 'Les doesn't know how to pick/recruit a good QB'. Despite having more NFL players than any other team, I think Mett is the only QB floating around at this point who is a Tiger.