:geaux: Exactly! I pointed out the Callahan debacle at Nebraska in an earlier post as an example of what can happen when a successful coach is let go to "move in another direction". I don't know how you and Husker fans in general felt about Frank Solich, but I remember he won over 50 games in five years and had the Big Red playing for championships. Don't remember how many conference championships he won but assume it was one or two. Guess losing the NC game was his sin and ultimate downfall. I remember thinking at the time that how in the world do you fire a coach who is so obviously successful. Was the fanbase against him? Was everybody wanting Tom Osborne back? What's going on? And how hard will it be to get someone in who will meet/exceed expectations that winning at least 10 games a season is not nearly enough? It certainly didn't happen with Callahan and Nebraska may just now be recovering from that. I think Bo has them on the right track. CLM is not perfect, no coach is. And if the refs don't put one second back on the clock Mack Brown certainly wouldn't be either. All coaches and programs have ups and downs. I'm not ready to throw CLM to the wolves. Let's see what happens in the bowl game, recruiting this year and performance on the field next season. I'm willing to bet LSU will be right back near the top next year.:thumb: And the Husker's played a hell of a game last Sat. I thought ya'll got jobbed on the one second being put back on the clock, but we've had a few go against us this year so we know how it feels. Good luck in your bowl game and Suh is awesome!. :LSU231:
Therein lies the problem. We are competitive with every team we play, while failing to dominate the teams we should, and beat the teams that leave the door open.:dis:
Trying to make some posters maintain a modicum of attachment to reality is kinda like banging our heads against a brick wall.
Outside of Bama and Texas and to a lesser extent Florida (kinda...none of these teams really 'dominated' the teams they 'should' have this season, not in total), this describes the vast majority of football programs this past season...most especially USC, Oklahoma, and tOSU,. Is it just that ALL coaches outside of SabanGod, CUM, and Mack Brown can't coach? :huh:
Last time I looked, LSU is 9-3, with losses to (until they were forced to play each other) the #1 and #2 teams in the country, followed by a heart-breaker to a very good SEC-W team on the road. Last time I looked, LSU has not lost a single OOC game under CLM. Last time I looked, LSU has not lost a single bowl game, against quality opponents, under CLM. Last time I looked, programs like Notre Dame, Michigan, USC, Georgia, Ohio State, and Oklahoma have FAR bigger problems, coaching and otherwise, than LSU. I like that 9-3 is considered "not good enough". But this mindset that 9-3 is a failure - well, I really hope most LSU fans aren't falling into this mindset. Tiger stadium and LSU deserve better, more loyal fans. IMO.
This, and I would add that when the whinners win they'll wish they hadn't. I would also add that I went back and looked thru the forum, it was to no surprise that I found several topics and posts by many of the same posters in reference to "this will be the big test for Miles". Amazingly Miles has past most of those tests, but these posters still want him to pass the next big test before they will accept that he is a good coach.
All the naysayers aren't looking at W/L records. They'll even tell you that. But they don't really say what the true problem is. I'm guessing it's because we weren't beating teams 57-1. I'll agree, it was frustrating watching as La Tech went up at the half, but I don't remember losing the game.
And I understand that, don't agree but understand. I also understand analyzing and criticizing, making good analogies and possible solutions. What I don't understand is negating the successes as if they weren't there, and writing Miles and the team off, claiming we will never be competitive with him as coach. I think his record of being competitive every yr, with the exception of last yr, speaks for itself. Frankly I don't care if we win by 1 or 100, as long as we win.
Exactly. That'w the same way I feel. I love the posts that say Miles is a bafoon and the players won despite the coaches, and we only won because of talent. Then there's no props for Coach recruiting this bad-ass talent. I've figured it out. We didn't beat Bama, Ole Miss, Florida, and barely beat some WAC team. They want the coach fired because we didn't play in the SEC or BCS game. What's funny to me.... We played Bama better than good. Look at how they dominated Florida. Hmm...
