He’s an excellent coach and I would be very happy with him at the helm. He kicked ass at both LSU and Okie State.
I respect your opinion, but I guarantee you with Miles we will not be taking a step back to the Levine era of mediocrity on the field. Where has Les gone and not been successful? Les just just got fired from a job that he had done a very good job at. If that doesn’t motivate an individual, I don’t know what will. I think Dana will be a great coach here too, but if we hire Miles I think you will be very happy.
Fair enough. I just think that revenge is, at best, a temporary motivator. I’m speaking from personal experience on this. Once you go somewhere else and prove the other place made a mistake, that’s kind of the end of the motivation. Mission accomplished. Honestly, I would rather have someone who doesn’t need an external motivator. Maybe Miles is that guy and I just don’t know enough about him to know how he operates.
But I do trust Khator, Fertitta and Yurachek to find a good coach. As long as it isn’t Briles, I can’t imagine I’m going to be terribly upset about whoever ends up here.
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If Les is truly willing to let go of the reins on offense and open it up, I think he is definitely option 1. He gets overshadowed I think because he spent so many years going head to head with the greatest of all time, but his career achievements are pretty remarkable.
1 losing season in 15 years, and it was his very first year as a head coach in 2001 at Oklahoma State
72% career winning percentage, good for 13th among active coaches with at least 5 years at the FBS level
1 National Championship and 2 SEC Championships
In 11+ years at LSU, had 4 Top 5 recruiting classes, 9 Top 10 classes, and his lowest finish was 22nd, in his very first year
On a more subjective note, it could be argued that he has accomplished all this in the toughest division in college football for his entire career. In the early 2000s, while Miles was at Oklahoma State, the prevailing thought in college football was that the Big 12 South was the toughest division in the country. And the SEC West has probably been the most brutal division since Saban’s arrival at Alabama in 2007.
He is clearly the most accomplished candidate, I just would like to see him adapt a little more offensively here.
Yeah, Alabama, Michigan, Florida, Ohio State, Wisconsin and LSU are all having problems filling their 75k to 100k stadiums.
We had better attendance in the veer days than the run n shoot days because winning means more than anything else.
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Kind of what I was thinking shaggylives. Winning fills stadiums. The blue print the old coach had is one for success. It’s not like our offense was bad either. You look at the games against Navy, and Memphis, our offense was pretty good. If we just look for an amazing offense that tries to outscore everyone we will never rise to the championship level. When has that blue print won it all. By outscoring everyone I mean a team that doesn’t stress D. Tech can score, but they can’t stop anyone.
All of the schools on that list would have traded their last two years for our last two years. I’m not interested in joining that group, i’d rather have another up and comer that leaves us than be UTEP with Price or UCF with O’Leery.
#NeverMilesNeverBrilesKeepMySmiles
Miles has been saying that old BYU QB and ex Washington coach Steve Sarkesian will be his OC for new job…We WILL throw the football under Les…He is a brilliant coach who is already prepared to adapt to the new situation…
No more boring offense. NO Applewhite…running the ball up the middle on 1st and 2nd down.
From my seat in section 223, I saw a lot of empty seats in the upper corners of the upper deck on the home team side of the field for Louisville. IMHO, if you are selling SRO tickets, every seat should have a bottom in it . . . . .
Those peeps are cramming into any other seats they can find or hanging out on the concourse.
You can buy a corner ticket, and sit in general admission for a better seat