i agree with you for the most part, but my problem was the people who said saban always gives one away he should not, well from what i see miles has done the same thing. Going into those games in 06 yeah i understand, total crapshoot, but (and once again hindsight is 20/20) i think we had the better team, by far in both of those games, and bone headed play calling and stupid mistakes lost those games for us. We had one of the most high powered offenses in the nation and we couldn't even put the ball in the endzone once against auburn, sure we got some bad calls, but the play calling in that game was horrible. I understand that everyone uses the Katrina excuse, and it is a valid one, but i will say again, Rick Clausen, 21 point lead. last year you cant tell me we shouldn't have kicked the crap out of arkansas. I am not complaining, i think Miles is a good coach and a great representative of LSU, but alot of his in game moves are questionable at best. i don't expect to win every game, but i do expect to contend for the SEC west and the SEC every year, and i have seen many teams do more with less than we did last year.
we should've but a long season was virtually over at that point for LSU after the bama and ole miss losses. should they have won? yes. did the game really matter? no. in fact, i think if we won that game and somehow gone to the cotton over ole miss, i think tech would've passed for 600 yards on us. everything worked out for the best.
people get pretty defensive about things - especially les related things. with that being said i dont really agree with you. a lot of those games included conservative playcalling, but the percentages were on our side. all coaches have it backfire sometimes.
327 you make some really valid points. I never thought about the Cotton Bowl scenario last year. the 05 Tennessee game, and 07 Kentucky game are the only games that i thought Miles went really conservative and we lost as a result. in 06, i still believe along with the officiating, Miles and companies dumb play calls and misuse of personnel lost those 2 games for us. last year i put most of that on our defense not knowing what the hell they were doing half the time, but.... who is that a reflection of? along with being the most penalized team in the SEC in 05 and maybe last year i'm not completely sure. 327 you are right though, there is not one coach i can think of that never lost a game they shouldn't have, and i don't want anyone to think i am bashing Miles because i am not.
i didn't think you were bashing him. i'll also add in arizona state. that game was won, but without special teams karma (and i mean major almost movie like karma) and jamarcus gunning it at the end that game was poorly coached especially on the defensive side. remember in those first two weeks vs tenn and ariz st the tigers gave up 30.5 pts. maybe pelini was trying to save their legs by playing soft off the line but he learned quickly not to do that again after those two games.
this past weekend and even last night ESPU and CBSC has been showing alot of old LSU games and they showed that last play Jamarcus to Early in the Arizona St. game, i think we got away with one, was that a catch?
Miles loses games because he's conservative. This is THE MOST STUPID, IDIOTIC, RIDICULOUS, BONEHEADED, UNTHOUGHTOUT, IGNORANT?, JACKASSED, statement I've ever read. Obviously, you don't watch LSU football. Or maybe you do and have a little too much refreshment (which I'm guilty of sometimes) while watching. Ask ANYONE with a little knowledge of the game and they'll tell you EXACTLY the opposite. I read your reasoning. I'm still not understanding you. I assume you expect Miles to run the ball down the middle on every play of the freakin game. I would wager that there are not many successful 1A football programs that have used more "gadget" plays than LSU. The Flynn throw over the shoulder to the kicker comes to mind the most, but there have been others. And I seem to recall lots of times when Miles did the opposite of a conventional play and the cameras pan to him with his little learing smile. Are you just bored, or did you miss that short bus in front of your house? :huh::lol::huh::lol::huh::lol::hihi::hihi::lol::huh::lol::huh::huh::lol:
i watched that over and over when it happened and i honestly think it was but it was so close. basically however it was called on the field was gonna be the call. probably couldn't have been overturned by replay because the play was so close there wasn't really enough evidence to go either way.
