Insightful Article on Les Miles' View of the Offense

I didn't go through all the comments but one thing about Miles and his offensive philosophy that has me scratching my head (ok, there's more than one thing but for today...). His offensive production at OSU was never this bad. It doesn't appear that he stifled Mike Gundy. We had a good offense under Miles/Fisher. What is really going on? It seems that something happened in the locker room about halfway through last season that just got progressively worse and is still affecting this team. I just don't get it.

 

I agree. We can only hope that these inner struggles are resolved before an all out implosion occurs.

 

Exactly right. Dare I even say that, it was bad, but never THIS bad when Crowton was still here. I think the million dollar question is the one you just asked - What IS really going on?

 

Ok, here's my take... Les Miles comes in and Jimbo already has an established offense, with a returning big arm quarterback, receivers, and tailbacks, Les wasn't going to tinker with that or get in the way of something that had a lot of potential. He also likely saw Jimbo and Jamarcus leaving in 2 seasons tops. This was obviously Miles biggest gig, and to come in and clean house likely would have been suicide. So he goes with flow, leaves the offense in place, and continues the job his predecessor left.

Fast forward to 2007, Jimbo and JR are gone, Gary Crowton comes in and doesn't really change the offense much, maybe a few wrinkles, but again Les is being the head coach and delegating, but letting Crowton do his job. It worked, we win a championship, lots of senior leaders graduate, and in the offseason Ryan Perriloux gets dismissed, leaving us with redshirt freshman Jarrett Lee, Andrew Hatch a Harvard transfer, and true freshman Jordan Jefferson who is very athletic, but extremely raw. Hatch starts, gets killed, Lee comes in beats Auburn, we are undefeated, but a few pick sixes have taken place. Other than turnovers, offense actually is the better unit because we have Malveto as DC. Then it all goes to shit with losses, giving up 50 points in multiple games and pick sixes galore. This is the first time the Fire Les Miles retards come out of their closets. It gets worse as the season progresses, and Les is hearing the talk show hosts, the fans, can only win with Saban's players, blah blah blah, and says to himself, if I get shitcanned, I'm going out running the offense my way.

The rest is obvious.

 

God help us if we continue down this offensive path! it's, at best, a remedial philosophy coming from a top 2 ranked (talent wise) team. I've had the feeling through the years other coaches haven't fully respected CLM or his Lesticles nickname. We've succeeded because we've had great defensive play, special teams and recruiting. But as far as the side of the ball our HC specializes in, well, it has often been dismal at best and ranked 100 or worse in the land.

 

I was pleased because the article indicated that CLM does not, in fact, call the plays during the game. He seems to leave that to the OC>

 

Good call noob.