Perspective - your last chance to gain some.

This is a terrible analogy. For one you cannot go out an purchase a brand new coaching staff and have it run to perfection like you can a car. Second, what would happen if we fired every coach that showed the first sign of a problem? Eventually no coach would want to coach for us! Also, with this philosophy the vast majority of what people consider "elite" coaches would have been driven out of their current schools years ago.

I have confidence that the AD and Miles will make all of the necessary changes in this off season to produce a better team next year, whatever those changes may be.

I think this season went just as I expected it to go. Yes, we did not look as good as some fans would want, but 9-3 and a decent bowl is nothing to be ashamed of.

Looking forward to a good bowl game, and to next year :geauxtige

 

Nice post, Bandit. :LSU231: :milesmic:
Except for the part about "started by Saban." LSU made Saban, not vice-versa.

Also, it is shocking how Dinardo doesn't get the praise he deserves.

 

Clearly, Dinardo was the beginning of the climb from mediocrity. IMO - Saban gave LSU the facilities and the national attention that put the program on the road to where it is.

 

I have articles saved on my old computer (which I have stored away still) showing that it was Dinardo that built those facilities. Don't get why people give Saban credit for that. Same thing with locking down in-state recruiting--Dinardo did that. LSU made Saban, and so did Bama. But got to give Saban props for how well he's done this year (even though he got lucky as hell... but that is pretty much every great team in history but for a few of the truly great). Saban's Bama program will crash and burn soon, just like Stoops, Carroll, Tressel, Miles, Dinardo, and all but a handful of the greats in history. Same with Meyer.

 

Perspective? Here's some..

We're 1 win shy of 100 wins this decade. Just a bowl game away fellas. :thumb:

 

Well, if true, then I am happy to flick boogers at Saban. Seriously, I think he's a great coach who elevates programs. He's also a peniz. I doubt any of us would like him around the campfire. But it's about winning end of the day.

Anyway - I'd like to read more about Dinardo. I was out of the country during those seasons and don't remember much.

 

No doubt that Saban is a fine coach. I'm just saying Dinardo did just as good of a job elevating LSU as Saban did... both are responsible for getting LSU back to the elite after the bottom-point of the Hallman years. Heck, just the other day I saw a great article by Booger McFarland talking about how he and the Dinardo program he played for made LSU what it was today... and they did... because Dinardo brought the magic back, like he promised... got us the white home jerseys back, beat #6 Auburn in his first home game as LSU coach, etc, etc. Had Saban been in Dinardo's shoes in 1995, I doubt Saban would have done any better. In fact, Dinardo's 1995 squad crushed Saban's 1995 MSU squad in the Indy Bowl.

 

Enough of the Saban hate. Dinardo was great for LSU, however, he has no SEC titles let alone any national titles. National Titles bring prominence to a program. After 2003, we have been been pretty much preseason top 10 and in the national title hunt until our first or second loss. Now that is respect.

But to go back to the original post, it is funny how other major programs are in much worse position than us now and still have more sanity.
Firing Les Miles for poor game management is not the answer. While he may be lacking in that area, the positives greatly outweigh that. He proved tonight that game management can be corrected with practice as well.

 

Saban wouldn't have those SEC titles or that national title but for Dinardo. It's not Saban hate, it is giving respect where respect is due... and that is to both Dinardo and Saban... especially to Dinardo since he laid the foundation.

 

That's my feeling as well.