Les Miles

R

rickysrun

2,500+ Posts
This guy gets all kinds of flack for being an all out goof...the hat, R-kansas etc, but this guy can flat out coach. Won 6 straight vs the top 10, 4 of those away from Baton Rouge. I thought the guy would fall flat on his face at LSU, but he's shown otherwise. All that being said, I look forward to Mack and co kicking his *** in the BCS in the near future.
 
My question about him is why does he fight the English language so much. In all his interviews he just loves to battle it as struggles around words, just let it happen Les, just let it happen.
 
As an LSU alum, I wasn't completely sold on the guy until last year.. Beating Meyer, Tubberville, Saban, Fulmer, Tressel, and Spurrier last year impressed the hell out of me.
This year winning at Auburn, something Saban never did at LSU, was awesome..

8-3 versus top 10 teams, winning the last 6 ain't no fluke. Guy has the team ready every week.

Fear da Hat!
 
One thing I will say is I don't like that record vs. ranked teams stat whenever they use it for any coach. They usually go with the ranking of the team at the time they play them vs. their ranking at the end of the season. This can make a win early look really good at the time but not so great at the end of the season. It can also make a win vs. an average team look really good at the end of the season if the team they beat just gets reallly good down the stretch.

LSU beat Florida last year and they were ranked #9. By the end of the season Florida was ranked #13 with 4 losses.

In 06, LSU lost to Auburn and Florida who were ranked #3 and #5 when they played and #9 and #1 at the end of the season. Also in 06 LSU beat #8 Tenn and #5 Arkansas who at the end of the season were ranked #25 and #15. So according to my view point they lost to 2 top 10 teams in 06 and didn't beat any.

I just don't like this stat. That being said, coach Miles has exceeded my expectations and LSU has been very good while he has been there. He should get some credit for this but we'll see how his team does down the stretch this season Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama on the horizon.
 
Miles is the luckiest man ever. His decision to throw on first down for the TD was an idiotic call. Not only was he extremely lucky the play resulted in a score instead of a sack or turnover, but it also left Auburn plenty of time to score with 3 timeouts.
 
dalls, people here were shocked when LSU took him. He was thought of as a goofball hick who had accomplished very little at Okie State outside of a couple of upsets vs. OU (he was winless vs. Texas). Seemed at the time like LSU had under-hired (and that sentiment seemed common in Baton Rouge).

He inherited top-5 talent at LSU and he won with it. I'm among many who are surprised that he's still winning SEC games 3 years later.

I guess we were wrong. Props to him. He should use some of his money and clout and hire somebody to make a ballcap that fits his weird head, though.
 
Obviously it was so horrible that LSU won the game 26-21. Look, with Auburn's pitiful offense, everybody watching knew they weren't going to do anything with only one minute remaining anyway.
 
hornpharmd
You do understand that had LSU lost those games all the teams you just posted about would have finished in the top 10?

Just like Georgia in 2003, LSU beat them twice and if they beat LSU, Georgia would have finished in the top 5.

So beating a top 10 team is something very important.

I will say beating a top 10 that finishes outside the top 20 shouldn't count, because they will likely have 4 or more losses.
 
I don't care for LSU or its fans, but Les is a very good coach.

You can watch every one of their big wins and think that Les did something stupid and that they got lucky, but if you're always getting lucky then at some point you have to start thinking that maybe it's not really luck after all.

That onside kick last night was a brilliant decision, as was going at the endzone now two years in a row at the end of the game.
 
Good coach or not, I can't stand that "used car salesman" grin he has on the sidelines. Man, I remember that same grin as Texas scored something like 35 unanswered points during the OSU game a few years back.
 
He may be a good coach but he is also the luckiest coach i have ever seen. in everyone of his big wins he had multipe low percentage plays pay off big time. eventually it is going to catch up to him and lets face it, auburn may be ranked in the top 10 but they are not a top 10 team, they struggled to a 3-2 victory to a bad miss st. team that just got crushed by georgia tech. auburn had no business being in that game.
 
I guess it was on another thread that someone made the analogy that he is like Switzer with the Cowboys, an uber-talented team winning in spite of the coach, not because of him. Last year they were luckier than hell to be in the BCS championship, especially after getting their second loss at home to a mediocre Arkansas team. Wouldnt have happened any other year
 
He's a good coach with great players, not a great coach with good players.

If he were a great coach, he would have done better at stoolwater.
 
Thanks for responding rickysrun, but I disagree. Auburn had no problem scoring on the previous drive. LSU got to field goal range by running teh ball. Now their option was either have the freshman qb throw or continue running the ball and eat up clock. LSU also has one of the best kickers in the game. You don't want Auburn to get the ball back with plenty of time to score plus 3 timeouts.

In retrospect, it's easy to say Miles made the right call since LSU won, but if Auburn scored on the next possession, it would have gotten ugly in Baton Rouge.
 
That team is loaded with talent

hookem.gif
 
LSU was a 3-4 point favorite in the BCS game.
And who gives Carroll a pass? He does usually manage to lose one to a vastly inferior team, like Arkansas and Kentucky, wait, I mean Cal or Stanford
 
Yet he has won more at LSU than Nick Saban did.

It time to give Les Miles his due.

Ive been hearing for years that THIS was the year LSU was going to suck because Les is apparently a bad coach, yet they keep on winning.
 
I think more to the point i was originally trying to make is that this guy has not fallen on his face like I thought he would. Call it luck, good coaching whatever, I don't think many on this board who saw him at okie st thought he could do the job he's done at LSU especially post-Saban.
 
My memory is hazy through all the drugs and booze, but wasn't Lester the one who tried to call timeout after a turnover to stop the clock near the end of the game? That was one of the most moronic things I have ever seen on a football field that didn't involve Texas A&M. And the other crap he gets away with... the crazy fourth down calls, etc. I suppose he's playing with the house's money, but at some point the odds are going to catch up with him.

Don't get me wrong, you can't argue with the guy's record, but if he had a brain he would probably pull it out and play with it.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Recent Threads

Back
Top