Is Les Miles On The Hot Seat & Does One Second Define Tenure At LSU?

by SouthernMan on Nov 22, 2009 1:18 AM CST Comment 12 comments

One second could define the tenure of LSU's most successful coach—by winning percentage—if you believe the sentiment on blogs such as 'And the Valley Shook' and other internet outlets including the new 'Facebook' commenting feature on LSU's official website LSUsports.net.

Coach Les Miles has never seemed to win all the fans over at LSU—for some it is simply that he is not his predecessor and for others it’s that he never will be—despite having as much, if not more success than said predecessor and any other coach in school history-comparatively.

On Saturday Night, versus Ole’ Miss (8-3; 4-3 SEC) with the game on the line and one second on the clock—though a review of the replay clearly shows there should have been three seconds—Miles' team looked confused and befuddled and made one of themost bizarre mistakes in recent memory.

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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/295130-is-les-miles-on-the-hot-seat-does-one-second-define-tenure-at-lsu

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Is Les Miles on the Hot Seat?

Well, if he’s not, then Tiger fans better get ready for several years of LOSING SEASONS!!! I have never really been a fan of MIles. I was sitting in the north endzone of one game watching pre-game warmups. Miles was standing under the goal posts holding his hands out to his players waiting for a ‘low five’ hand slap. They just blew him off. At that time I knew he wasn’t even respected by his players or were they really his players??? Miles has been riding the shirt tial of Saban, but not naymore! He has his players and coaches and IT IS SHOWING. After the Ole Miss game yesterday everyone will see our recruiting spiral downward and we will lose to Arkansas next week. LSU needs to hire a big time consultant and find another Saban type coach to bring back the respect to football that our fans deserve. The most recent NC trophy belongs to Saban. We are in for several years of losing unless we make a move NOW. There is an opening in Michigan, and Miles needs to go for it! PLEASE!!!

by ramblinman on Nov 22, 2009 8:45 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

We are stuck with him...

If Michigan was watching and I hope they weren’t, they wouldn’t take him now.

by Tiger6367 on Nov 22, 2009 4:51 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Jesus Christ

Les Miles is not the most winningest coach by win %. Stop comparing apples to Oranges. Teams play more games now than they used to. Our extra game over the last 4 years has been TuLame. Rent-a-win games don’t count, if you want to look at the real numbers.

The goal of our team every year is to win the west and win the SEC. To do that you have to win SEC games.
Mile’s SEC win% is not the best ever. Look it up.

by LSU Jonno on Nov 22, 2009 1:07 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

No

Les Miles won a Championship 2 years ago? Why would he be? Crappy recruiting class of QB’s……all of Sabans recruits on D are now gone…….He deserves atleast a few more years before he is on the chopping block.

SEC Teams are way better than any other division….lets pan this one out!!

by Saintsfan4life on Nov 22, 2009 9:27 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

If I were Les...

I think I would just resign and and tell LSU to stuff it. Then I would sit back and watch us spiral downward while top coaching candidate after top coaching candidate told us to shove it where the sun don’t shine. I mean, firing coaches with winning numbers worked so well for schools like Nebraska and Notre Dame, imagine what it can do for us?

by MuddyBayou on Nov 23, 2009 11:26 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

People keep tossing out Nebraska as a strawman

but the counterpoints to that argument are Florida (fired Zook 23-14), Alabama (fired Shula 26-23), Miami (fired Coker 60-15), and USC (fired Hackett 20-17). All those fired coaches had winning records, if only marginally so, and Coker had a national championship. Hasn’t seemed to affect their ability to attract talent.

The flip side of the argument for standing pat is Florida State who probably should have retired Bowden three years ago.

I am not a proponent of firing Miles this year (won’t happen anyway), but LSU fanbase expectations are for better than .500 in the SEC. We need a win against Arkansas on Saturday to finish .500 in the conference over the past two years. Surely you and SouthernMan can see why the fanbase is upset? It’s not one game, it’s two seasons of watching an unprepared team struggle to beat even mediocre competition. Some of it’s the QB situation, sure, but that doesn’t explain why the O-Line is so bad this year, why the D was so bad last year, and why we have to burn 1-2 timeouts to avoid delay of game penalties in each half.

Since 2007, we’ve fallen not just behind Alabama, but Ole Miss in the division. At best we’re at parity with Auburn and Arkansas. As I see it, Miles has one more season to compete for an SEC West title. If next year is more of the same, he deserves to be on the hot seat.

CHAD JONES! WOOOO!!!!

by The Bengal on Nov 23, 2009 12:18 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Amen Bengal

Further, we are 10-10 in SEC play since the Florida game in 2007.

I think the reality of firing Miles this year is that it would be too expensive, and a huge media hit.

Crowton has to go.

Next year if we don’t win the west (and we won’t be favored to by the way, Bama will) Les has got to go.

I wish SouthernMan was my boss.

by LSU Jonno on Nov 23, 2009 1:41 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I couldn't agree More.

GEAUX TIGERS!!!

by SouthernMan on Nov 23, 2009 12:41 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

This was meant as a response to Muddy Bayou

GEAUX TIGERS!!!

by SouthernMan on Nov 23, 2009 12:42 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Florida is

the only one that had a good result.

Alabama and USC with coaches barely above .500 don’t even fit on the same page in this argument.

Miami does and look at the futility of that program since Coker was sent packing. Do you really want LSU to be no better than a middle of the road or worse ACC team?

Nebraska MAY HAVE turned the corner but look what they went through in the 6 year interim and they may NEVER get back to where they were…

Florida State is not even in the conversation either way, Bowden SHOULD be able to leave on his terms, he’s earned it. Kudos to FSU and Penn State for not listening to idiots that have NO loyalty.

And incase you forgot, we DID compete for the SEC Title this year, we came up a third foot inbounds short of having a chance to win it.

GEAUX TIGERS!!!

by SouthernMan on Nov 23, 2009 12:41 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Funny you mention Coker

I was actually thinking the other day about the similarities between Miles & Coker. I don’t have any stats handy, but I remember Coker coming in like gang busters for his first two years (winning one NC and playing for another), then things just seemed to get worse every year. I think he (Coker) had an inability to recruit, which left the cupboard bare. I don’t think it was his firing that caused Miami’s downfall. Miles does seem to be re-stocking talent quite well.

by HarveyBirdmanAAL on Nov 23, 2009 1:08 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs