It's the equivalent of getting divorced and seeing your ex-wife having a great time out on the town with another man. Instead of looking inward for answers, blame is projected on the nearest external subjects. Forget the fact that she walked out the door on you because you were nothing but a grown up child with infantile thoughts, the fact that you see her with another man causes a complete meltdown.
don't like it but I can't change it 2007 was amazing thanks to so many 2 loss teams 2008 2009 both Tiger teams have vast problems that fall on the head of Coach Miles Coach Miles has to get the best player on the field and they have to be coached up to compete in the SEC. Bama will be pre-season #1 and all in Baton Rouge will hold Coach Miles to the fire to be the best in the SEC West. The bar is high and he just hung his future on the guy that passed the ball twice back to back at the end of the Ole Miss game! The guy that called a middle screen with 30 seconds on the PSU 48 yard line with no time outs! LSU lost the line of scrimmage all year and was not able to run the ball all year. Just for the record I would have fired Crowton and Stud. I am not alone in this feeling and the fall of CLM will happen quickly in 2010 unless the cure all shows up! winning winning often winning soundly ldskule:cliff
I agree with you, and actually made some similar points in another thread. But the current economic reality is that LSU is hurting big-time. The university is shifting its fundraising strategy to private donations, and I don't blame them because it's clear they can't depend on the state for ANYTHING. I've always subscribed to the theory that you generally get what you pay for, and when you try to do things on the cheap, the financial pinch comes back to bite you twice as hard. However, I also understand the tendency in the current economic climate to think short-term survival. A professor I knew at LSU told me a story of a plane ride he took with then-Chancellor Emmert. The discussion turned to football, and Emmert told him that he understood he would have to pay top-dollar if he wanted a top program. But I also understand that it's much easier to do during the boom times when things are good than during a severe recession where a lot of people (profs, instructors, grad students) are looking at losing their jobs and funding, while schools are paying coaches 6-7 figures.
wow tigercliff, we've had some disagreements in the past when i thought you were being too pro-clm when signs were on the wall but i see now that, at worst, you want to take a positive outlook on things until there is no longer a question. i back you 100% not only for this post but what you said to satanfan..i mean sabanfan. wish someone would revoke his posting privileges so we can keep this to lsu loving fans. sometimes i've been wrong in my postings (like bobby heberts declarations when coach o was thought to be coming to lsu). i welcome when i need to be corrected. but this is only here to cause trouble knowing that if he were a man and voiced his opinion to the people he is jerking around he'd be hurt real bad. kind of like saban...chickens_it. lets see how long he's at bama or how long it takes for recruits to revolt over his, as miami fans put it, his "nickdator" ways. as much as i loved what he did at lsu i've come to realize over the years that a personality like saban can only be in one location so long before he burns everyone around him out. an espn special was running at the same time as the championship game that showed saban in a really bad light. its title was something like "10 coaches who should have stayed in college coaching". one was saban. i realized miami had no loved lost for saban but i really didn't know the degree. quotes from team and media from "liar", "dictator", miserable excuse for a human being. even then, he fared better than petrino did. he came out #1.
settle down bro, sabanfan has been around here posting since the Chinese Bandits, he is nothing but a Tiger fan. don't take it to heart and then start posting stuff that doesn't have a place here.
This has nothing to do with Saban nor Bama, no matter how much you want to bring them up. It has to do with schools like Georgia Tech looking at their defense slipping to 54 in defense and firing the DC compared to the current LSU situation with a sinking offense that seems to reward the OC.
cliff and rockwallfan, your posts have no place in the den. i trust that you will take future comments like that to the sidelines. that is what the rant forum is for. you should make your case without the personal attacks and name calling or take it to the appropriate forum. if you are unsure of how to do that, see the post immediately above this one. for the record i do not agree with sf, in that i have wanted gc gone for a while and i believe that the shortsightedness of not wanting to pay his buyout is why he isnt gone. it has nothing to do with that other coach. however, sf has his right to his opinion and he doesnt need to go anywhere, and is free to state his feelings on an lsu forum. as far as i am concerned, it will just give us something to argue about if i run into him at an lsu function.
