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  • TequillaTequilla Member Posts: 19,985
    Can't say that I'm surprised by it at this point ... will be interesting to see where he goes.

    Bad news from a UW standpoint is that it's very possible that Coach O may head back to USC
  • GladstoneGladstone Member Posts: 16,419
    Tequilla said:

    Can't say that I'm surprised by it at this point ... will be interesting to see where he goes.

    Bad news from a UW standpoint is that it's very possible that Coach O may head back to USC

    as a HC or as an assistant? If the former, yay! If the latter, fuck!
  • 2001400ex2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    LSU cares about football. 7 out of 11 years were 10 win. Last year was 8-5, now they are 7-3. Now it's door. Ass. Out.

    And Chip Kelley goes to USC. No way would he go to the SEC.
  • PurpleBazePurpleBaze Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,143 Founders Club
    Tequilla said:

    Can't say that I'm surprised by it at this point ... will be interesting to see where he goes.

    Or not...

    I'm not surprised you're not surprised.
  • topdawgnctopdawgnc Member Posts: 7,839
    Tequilla said:

    Can't say that I'm surprised by it at this point ... will be interesting to see where he goes.

    Bad news from a UW standpoint is that it's very possible that Coach O may head back to USC

    He has 15 million reasons to retire.
  • GladstoneGladstone Member Posts: 16,419
    edited November 2015
    110-32

    2 National Title Game Appearances
    1 National Title Game Win
    1 Sugar Bowl win
    2 SEC Titles
    8-5 is absolute worst season


    Amazing that he'd get fired unless there is more going on behind the scenes.
  • SoutherndawgSoutherndawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,326 Founders Club
    Gladstone said:



    110-32

    2 National Title Game Appearances
    1 National Title Game Win
    1 Sugar Bowl win
    2 SEC Titles
    8-5 is absolute worst season


    Amazing.

    SEC SEC SEC etc. ... and Nebraska says hi
  • RoadDawg55RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,123
    I think it will work out for LSU, but I agree that Miles would be a great hire at another school. I don't blame LSU at all for firing him though. I can see how it's a firing Don James in the late 80's type of scenario, but the same problems have been problems for long enough that a change isn't crazy. Not to mention the team quit as soon as they lost to Alabama this year.
  • topdawgnctopdawgnc Member Posts: 7,839
    Gladstone said:

    110-32

    2 National Title Game Appearances
    1 National Title Game Win
    1 Sugar Bowl win
    2 SEC Titles
    8-5 is absolute worst season


    Amazing that he'd get fired unless there is more going on behind the scenes.

    What's going on behind the scenes?

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  • AtomicDawgAtomicDawg Member Posts: 7,245 Standard Supporter
    edited November 2015

    I think it will work out for LSU, but I agree that Miles would be a great hire at another school. I don't blame LSU at all for firing him though. I can see how it's a firing Don James in the late 80's type of scenario, but the same problems have been problems for long enough that a change isn't crazy. Not to mention the team quit as soon as they lost to Alabama this year.

    They better get it fucking right though. Leu sucked for generations before saban. Les isn't Saban. But if they are not hiring a Saban type this is pretty risky. He has kept them a high level. I like the idea of turning up the heat and I bet they improve over the next few years but this doesn't seem to be playing out good for les.
    Some big swinging dick boosters must have someone in mind. I have no idea who it would be. Fisher would be crazy to leave fsu.
  • DooglesDoogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,674 Founders Club
    You think Nebraska regrets letting go of Solich after 9-3?

    Nothing is guaranteed, especially regime change.

    Finding a new coach is hard.
  • PostGameOrangeSlicesPostGameOrangeSlices Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 26,962 Swaye's Wigwam
    Dumb fucking move
  • SoutherndawgSoutherndawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,326 Founders Club

    I think it will work out for LSU, but I agree that Miles would be a great hire at another school. I don't blame LSU at all for firing him though. I can see how it's a firing Don James in the late 80's type of scenario, but the same problems have been problems for long enough that a change isn't crazy. Not to mention the team quit as soon as they lost to Alabama this year.

    They better get it fucking right though. Leu sucked for generations before saban. Les isn't Saban. But if they are not hiring a Saban type this is pretty risky. He has kept them a high level. I like the idea of turning up the heat and I bet they improve over the next few years but this doesn't seem to be playing out good for les.
    Some big swinging dick boosters must have someone in mind. I have no idea who it would be. Fisher would be crazy to leave fsu.
    Therein lies the rub. They have money and are among the top programs in the nation's most elite college football conference. They will attract talented coaches and will be alright if they choose wisely, but that is easier said than done. Oklahoma, Nebraska, USC, Notre Dame, and Alabama, all top programs that have struggled to find the right coach at times. That said, expectations at LSU are sky high post Saban. 8-5 doesn't cut it, they are prepared to cycle through coaches until they get the right guy in there. Who knows, maybe Chip Kelly (75k) ends up there after Philly fires his (75k) ass.
  • MeekMeek Member Posts: 7,031
    Has anybody asked Bleenor yet? Didn't think so.
  • TequillaTequilla Member Posts: 19,985
    Here's the thing with LSU and Miles ...

    Miles recruits his ass off ... by all accounts he does a lot of things well and says all the right things about him and the kids in his program. He's not against putting punishments in place for players that fuck around and I truly do think that he's the kind of coach that will do the right thing for the kid/team ahead of what the cost might be in the W/L column.

    As a coach, he's definitely above average. I'm not sure what some of the issues are with his coordinators but that's probably been the biggest thing to hold LSU back in some of the more recent years (particularly on offense).

    The hate for Saban and Bama is huge at LSU ... it's pretty much all they think about outside of who is this week's "Tiger Bait." If Saban wasn't running off 11+ win seasons and beating LSU each year, I don't think you are hearing as much noise about Les. But Saban is so you are.

    It's interesting to me that Fisher is the name talked about as Miles's possible replacement because if he's shown anything in the last few years it is that his inmates kind of run the asylum. It fits the narrative here because the only reason you'd fire Les Miles is because he's not winning the 1-2 games a year that you want him to win. LSU is essentially selling their soul to try to get someone in that can and will.

    I'd imagine that LSU supporters are also looking at Les being 62 or whatever he is and saying that he doesn't have much longer anyway so better to do this sooner than later. But it's a slippery slope that they are navigating with potentially dangerous consequences.
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