looks like it's open season now on Miles

Florida gets to take a shot at Tennessee and LSU. And what can we really say in response? Nothing.

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We all knew it was coming

 

I don't consider what they did dumb, a mistake YES. What LSU did was just plain dumb.

 

I think he's kind of gotten something of a "free pass" for the most part outside of Tigerland up until now. Not a lot of national criticism of some of his goofiness except for occasional innocent jokes about the hat and after the Ole Miss debacle. Now it's plainly evident to everyone that he's in over his head as a leader of a team this high profile. And there's blood in the water an everything will be under the microscope in the national media now much more than it ever was before. 5-0 this season record notwithstanding.

 

Well if I were coaching agains a Miles coached team in that situation I wouldn't substitute. Just tell your players to line up correctly, don't just offsides and watch the implosion. They'd have won with 11 linemen on the field.

 

It's been open season on Miles since Ole Miss last year. A lot of criticsm is justified but it's beyond me how some of you cannot state your criticism and just move on. It's blast the coach 24/7 around here for a lot of you negatigers. Very, very tiring.

 

This + a million.

Although I will use your valid point to kinda segue into this...I've been noticing at the high school and college level of football, coaches trying to get too cute and outsmarting themselves with stuff like this. Why is it necessary to have such a diversity/plethora of play scheming and substitution packages? It's absolutely absurd. You build these huge three-ring binders of different plays, different formations, and now different personnel packages, for every conceivable situation, down and distance. And whatever the situation, down and distance is, it dictates that you MUST have the absolute just perfect play and formation and personnel package for exactly that. And it seems like it's become so cumbersome and unwieldy you can't function properly in a crunch-time end-of-game situation (at least in the case of Tennessee and LSU coaches, but I've seen clock management gaffes elsewhere just as bad).

Just play football. You don't have time for that crap with 27 seconds on the clock and no timeouts. Run what you got. That's all you can do. You don't need the perfect play or personnel package, just get out there and run your 11 against theirs. Football, when you get down to it, is a simple game. Ya'll (coaches) have made the game way too complicated.

Not trying to defend or excuse Miles, or even Dooley, just making a general observation.

 

fixed it for ya.

 

Thanks. You're right. I forgot that the biggest critcism of Miles is that he is not Saban.