I agree !!!!!! As I find myself coming to this site each morning I am sure that no matter what I do my passion for LSU football will never cease. Les has done much for the program and much about Les I love ! Can I move forward with the understanding that my head coach in the biggest game of my life was that stupid ? This team at 8-0 with JL as the starting QB was a fun team to watch. I enjoyed the play calling and watching JL run the team. JJ always equals slow and easy to read. During the Bama game you got the feel that Les was waiting for the reason to give JJ the team. When he got it we moved from a quick and not easy to read O set to the slow easy to read O set with JJ. For 8 quarters in the Ark/Dog/Bama games in the last 3 games of the year JJ could not do a thing with what Les and the staff was feeding him. If you take a look at how many points the O scored and the number of 1st downs we got it is shocking how ugly this offense looked. Yet our coach viewed this as a up-grade and what we needed to beat Bama. During the 40 days looking forward to play Bama he did nothing to make this system better but he tells us that he believed that more of this would be what we needed to beat Bama. That my friends is being stupid~!!!! Les played into the strength of the Bama D with slow running based game plan. Our passing attack was to be in front of the strong front 7 of Bama. The fact that JJ does nothing fast played into Bama. We needed quickness - JL or Mett - we got JJ We needed over the top quick passing - JL or Mett - we got slow JJ We needed roll outs to the TE or hitting backs falling off blocks on the edge - we got 7 opition plays with JJ tossing to the RB 6 yards behind the line on the sideline. Les in the biggest game ever, this is all on you and not on JJ ! JJ did what he was told to do. He had no chance !!!! My head coach layed the biggest egg in the history of the BCS and only needs to look in the mirror to find the problem. TC
Certainly he erred many times. With players, game-planning, play-calling, you name it. And I sat in the stands and heard all the criticisms. You know how it is--no credit when you win; all the blame when you lose; that's the life of a coach. When I was in 1st grade, I was sitting in the cafeteria before school while two 4th or 5th grade boys were blasting my dad for the pathetic coaching job he'd done the Friday night before. I spoke up and said, "Quit talking about the coach." One of the boys replied, "What do you care? You don't even know him!" Indignantly, I spat back, "I do, too! I've known him my WHOLE LIFE!!" I like Miles because he reminds me a lot of my dad.
Bet your dad would have changed it up a bit instead of running the same 4 or 5 plays for the whole game waiting for one of them to work.
Probably, but there were times when even my mom and I would scratch our heads and later ask, "WHAT were you THINKING????" And we'd get some coachspeak as an answer. I think it's in the coaching DNA.
Yep ... you know how it is Stacy. People never remember all the things you do right ... because, right is what is expected. But do one thing wrong, ... and it will haunt you the rest of your life. I think in this case, the magnitude of the of it all is playing a huge factor. First, it was a perfect season. Second, it was the BCS NCG. Third, everyone in the nation except CLM would have put in Lee, Lee was a better pass QB than JJ, and everyone but CLM new it. It's one thing when you put a QB in for another, and he plays so much better than the other, that moving him to starter is a no brainer. It's quite another, when the decision is questionable. It's down right confusing, when you know the guy replacing the Starter [Jefferson replacing Lee] has a history of stinking up the field when it counts. I really think a lot of this vitriole is resulting from peoples feelings about replacing JLee with JJ. Sure, there were a lot of JJ Homers out there. There were a lot of people jumping on the bandwagon ... but I think everyone was questioning totally abandoning Lee, the QB who got us to 8-0, with an exciting offense that was fun to watch. It's the "I knew it" factor.
Perhaps. But Les got a LOT of credit for doing things right the past two years. A TON of credit this year, he was friggin' "Coach of the Year"! And rightfully so. But when he makes an inexcusable coaching mistake (and this is number 3 for Les!) he will get criticized as well. And rightfully so.
Oh .. no doubt. I"m on the forefront of being a critic of CLM on this game. But .. then, I'm a JLee homer, and think he should have remained as the starting QB, with JJ comming in as the change. I probably have not given CLM as much credit as most when he deserved it. Cause, as I said, doing the right thing, making good decisions, etc, is what is expected. If he wins, it's what LSU pays him 3.5 million dollars to do. When he loses .... not so much.
