Alleva is a poor excuse for an AD. Chavis should have never been let go. Miles is not a saint as you seem to believe and should be fired. Orgeron might make a good high school coach and will end up getting the program put on probation. The team is not being prepared physically which is why we have so many injuries each year. Finally, Fisher will never come back to this swamp because he has waded through this crap before!
Ok Genius, what is your recommendation? We all agree LSU is bad and CLM is on his way out. You can take your foot off the gas pedal on bashing and negativity, its beyond old.
Common Sense is LSU is a very BAD football team and is very poorly coached. The wheels have fallen off. There is no kool-aid about it. If Miles is back next year, we will be a very BAD football team and very poorly coached. Doesnt mean I wont watch every painful game, but that is just me using common sense.
At the end of last season, there was a thread that asked something along the lines of: what would a successful season in '15 be, in order for you to still believe in Miles. I said we had to win the West, or I was done. Two weeks and a day ago, we were ranked #2 and playing to knock Alabama out of contention for the SEC and to take total control of the conference. But...we knew we had an inconsistent (at best) passing game, a porous defense, and abysmal special teams. We (and the playoff committee) must have been drinking some Jamarcus-style purple koolaid "drank." After three straight blowouts, we are in the toilet, and as much as I wanted to deny it for a long time, Miles and LSU have never been the same since that BCSNCG debacle. We've lost far too many juniors to the draft, leaving us always with a team that is talented, but too young and inexperienced. Penalties kill us. Our defense has been bad pretty consistently since '11, and now our special teams has gone to hell. I have been a Miles fan, but it feels like it's time for a change, and I cannot defend him as our coach anymore. He may be getting "Charlie Mac'd," and I hope we don't get mired down in 20 years of bad football by angering the football gods for firing a coach with a good record and a good character. That would make me older than Miles is now when LSU football would be enjoyable again. However, LSU football is not enjoyable right now, and if we could possibly make a good hire, there is talent aplenty to make some noise. ETA: And why in the hell can we never have even average QB play?
Well said. LSU was certainly a "paper tiger" this year -- we were all drinking the kool aid at 7-0. I think we know LSU wasn't that good, but on the other hand, are they really as bad as we've seen these past 3 weeks? The turnaround has been stunning; certainly something we haven't witnessed here in very long time. Like you, I've always supported Miles. I can no longer do so. I still like him as a person; however, LSU is bigger than any coach. Indeed it is time to move on. I hope that Alleva and the BOS are smart about this, and bring in the right hire to replace Miles. I have to think that LSU football is in a different place now than when Saban was brought in. LSU is a destination, not a stepping stone. LSU forever!
I have always agreed with you and still do. There is nobody I want to see have success as the HC of LSU more than CLM. But like you, I have accepted his time has come and gone. I was blasted on here back before the South Carolina game for being critical of this team. A lot of us expected a 2 loss season, some 3 and some 4. But its not so much that we lost, its how we are losing. And for us long time LSU fans, its the product we see on field that really fires us up. The lack of preparation, lack of effort, lack of heart and fight. Also the lack of adjustments or even having a plan B. Couple all that with a bad coaching hire at DC after losing a great DC, knowing we have a bad OC who is most likely on his way out and a terrible ST coach. Future looks ugly and its an all around unfortunate situation LSU is in with or without CLM calling the shots. The hope is a new coach can come in and turn it around immediately, with our current talent. Pipe dream? Maybe, but maybe not. There is always a shot at being the exception to the rule. Especially with the group of Juniors coming back next year and the recruiting class coming in (if we can keep the majority of it). But I think we all know CLM isnt the answer anymore. If this hurts in the heart, its because it supposed to. It's a divorce, its the death of an era.
