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re: Coach Les Miles quotes
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:07 pm to LNCHBOX
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:07 pm to LNCHBOX
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You simply have no way of saying he wouldn't win here. The bottom line is he did, and sustained it for over a decade. There a handful of coaches that had better results than him.
You can try to spin that all you want, but that is the only fact that matters. He 100% refused to adapt with the game, and that is squarely on him. But you cannot argue with the number of wins he stacked here.
Boom, nailed it
Bro it’s like I said, people go undefeated on Xbox for a couple of seasons and also see what saban was doing at bama and think it’s totally realistic to have those EXPECTATIONS OF PERFECTION in real life. It’s fricking insane
97.5% of fan bases would have switched spots with LSU, no questions asked, yet there is a very vocal set of people on Tigerdroppings who consider Les Miles a total and complete failure.
Its totally asinine and shows how much people lack perspective
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Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:09 pm to LNCHBOX
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He was nothing without the coaches he kept from Les
Yeah that Joe Brady guy was a real bum. And besides that glaring admission, it was pretty obvious that Les was holding his coaches back whereas O let them loose.
He took Les' own shitty 2-2 start in 2015 and went 6-2 the rest of the way, was a far better in-game coach, rectified Les' unbalanced rosters, and came away with arguably the greatest team in CFB history.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:10 pm to 904
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including the final game of the regular season against your rival, and still get a chance to win the championship before expanding to 12 playoff teams? Or anyone really?
Holy frickin qualifiers, Batman!
How many times did he win a title without winning the SEC? Happened more than once. How many other coaches won national titles without winning their conference?
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:11 pm to LNCHBOX
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Wut?
I don't think Les could have done as well as Nick did had he taken over the program in 2000.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:25 pm to Wayne Campbell
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Holy frickin qualifiers, Batman! How many times did he win a title without winning the SEC? Happened more than once. How many other coaches won national titles without winning their conference?
2007 LSU was the only team in the 26 years of the BCS and 4-team CFP that made the National Championship, much less won it. Before that, you have to go all the way back to 1960 to Minnesota for a 2-loss national champion.
I have great love and memories from that 2007 team and they're worthy national champions, but it also required more unassisted luck and chaos than every other modern season before or since to be even given the opportunity, including all of Saban's Alabama teams. They're not the same.
This post was edited on 7/8/25 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:33 pm to wileyjones
On injuries “He has a leg”
Posted on 7/8/25 at 4:03 pm to 904
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007 LSU was the only team in the 26 years of the BCS and 4-team CFP that made the National Championship, much less won it. Before that, you have to go all the way back to 1960 to Minnesota for a 2-loss national champion.
I have great love and memories from that 2007 team and they're worthy national champions, but it also required more unassisted luck and chaos than every other modern season before or since to be even given the opportunity, including all of Saban's Alabama teams. They're not the same.
Okay. Saban won 2 titles without winning the SEC. How many coaches have won one without winning their conference? Urban Meyer at OSU and?
Why is bias and favoritism better than chaos?
Posted on 7/8/25 at 4:31 pm to Reda LSU
Guy was an imbecile.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 4:37 pm to Wayne Campbell
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Okay. Saban won 2 titles without winning the SEC. How many coaches have won one without winning their conference? Urban Meyer at OSU and? Why is bias and favoritism better than chaos?
Because nuance exists. The SEC, and even sometimes its individual divisions, is unique in that it regularly has 3-4 elite teams with potential to win the conference and/or the National Championship.
2011 Alabama had a single regular-season loss to a great 2011 LSU (although I also think we should've played OSU with them watching at home despite them pants-ing us in the natty) and then 2017 Alabama made a 4-team playoff with their only loss coming to a top-10 Auburn team.
On the other hand, 2007 LSU lost to two 5-loss Kentucky and Arkansas teams.
All of 3 those teams were lucky to get in, but Les' only national championship team was the only team in the modern era that made it to the championship with 2 losses, neither of which were historically acceptable losses at that when taking both into account in any other year. We still had to win the SEC championship game and beat Ohio State which was great, but there's a reason why 2007 is pretty widely regarded as maybe the most unique and outlier season in the sport's history.
This post was edited on 7/8/25 at 4:39 pm
Posted on 7/8/25 at 4:52 pm to 904
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All of 3 those teams were lucky to get in, but Les' only national championship team was the only team in the modern era that made it to the championship with 2 losses, neither of which were historically acceptable losses at that when taking both into account in any other year.
good point, both of those teams finished the year 8-5 even with beating LSU.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 5:03 pm to Reda LSU
You can’t argue with his record, but man his offenses in his latter years wanted to make you bang your head on the wall.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 5:06 pm to Tiger Ugly
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good point, both of those teams finished the year 8-5 even with beating LSU.
Yeah, usually it’s pretty easy to excuse a single loss against another great team, but two losses to mediocre teams was good enough in exactly 1 season since 1960. Thankfully, and fortunately for Les, that was 2007 LSU.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 5:32 pm to Reda LSU
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I don’t think we could have replaced Saban with anyone better than the goat himself
This. It was just unfortunate Saban came back to college to coach a division rival. I’m not mad at him for it. LSU would not be where they are had Saban not been here.
I was always one of the biggest Les critics there was but you don’t hold a program together that long if you’re a retard. He’s far from it. He just didn’t want to change offensively. Jarrett Lee’s first year really messed with Les’ offensive philosophy. When he was at OSU they slung the ball all over the field.
Saban is the unquestionable GOAT CFB coach and unfortunately for LSU and Les, he coached a divisional rival that we played every season.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 5:39 pm to Reda LSU
What an embarrassment LSU. His word salads kind of sounded familiar though……
Posted on 7/8/25 at 5:42 pm to Reda LSU
The interview after ole miss was epic. What a character love Les miles man
Posted on 7/8/25 at 5:49 pm to tgdk11
quote:I still disagree with you. The offense was too bad. It drags the whole team down. The offense did little to nothing in either Alabama game or the Georgia championship game. I’ll take 2019 LSU for best all time team.
Meant to say all around best football team I've ever seen. Not the best each phase of the game, culmination of the 3
Posted on 7/8/25 at 6:19 pm to Jimmyboy
quote:was Les a character? Yes.
The interview after ole miss was epic. What a character love Les miles man
But he was also a moron who ran an antiquated offense that held us back from our max potential.
Did he win a lot of games? Yes.
But, given his elite recruiting, he should've won a lot more.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 6:25 pm to atltiger6487
No doubt but still a top 5 coach to me all time
Posted on 7/8/25 at 6:26 pm to JimTiger72
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77-34*
Wrong
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Held LSU back while Saban brought Bama back into the golden era
Largely true.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 7:28 pm to Tiger Ugly
Lea Miles won his fricking opening games.
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