That game was absolutely the beginning of the end (if this is the end for Les here.) I kept hoping that we could shake off that horrible outing on the biggest of stages. Perhaps if we'd closed out that Bama game in '12, we'd have gotten the monkey off our backs...but we didn't...and it happened again last year, as well. I tried my best to give Les the benefit of the doubt, and all the way up to the Bama game this year, I felt that Les could beat Bama and have LSU back where LSU wants to be. But it didn't happen, and the collapse has been epic this time. Regardless, I still want to beat the Aggies on Saturday because I think I hate them worse than Bama. But if Alleva brings in a Kiffin or a Mullen, his ass needs to be the next out the door.
JJ or Lee, Bama came to play and LSU didn't. Lee was not mobile enough to do anything against that D that night with how they were owning the OL. All they had to do was say Lee had some unknown illness or some excuse. Because if he is dressed and there then of course people will expect him to see the field if JJ is failing. Overall the whole rematch was the begining of the end for Miles. I think had LSU played any other team that night they win. Sure it was BS to have to rematch Bama but if you truly are the best you have to beat the best, and Bama was the second best team going into that game so I have no issue with it.
Let's not relive this shit. The thread title should be the story everyone's trying to forget. The exact opposite.
I have an issue with it--and I don't have an issue with it. Yes, Bama was the second best option going into that game, but crap, we beat them on their home field that season, and re-matches almost always go to the team that lost first. Sports psychology 101. And, yes, we'd have beaten OSU, and the trajectory of our program AND Bama's would be far different. That BCSNCG was a killer.
Oh, I agree, if Lee plays, the outcome is not likely different, but at least we go down swinging, giving it our all, and maybe we would have made it closer. To not do that, and to not address it at all, and then to not use it as a jumping off point to improve and diversify your offense, that was his demise.
Yes, it was a coach killer. Has our program recovered, yet? No...again, we needed to beat Bama at some point to get over it, but we still haven't. Being their bitch isn't fun. Will it be a program killer? I don't know...will we fire Miles to hire Fisher? Or will we fire Miles to hire Mullen? It could go either way. But if we anger the football gods like we did when we fired Charlie Mac, we'll both be older than Les is now the next time LSU football is relevant.
