All the angst over Les Miles is BS. He is 4-7 in SEC W over last 2 yrs. Granted the west is
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Something tells me the boosters have forgotten the Jerry Stovall, Mike Archer, Curley Hallman, and Gerry Dinardo years. Hell, except for Dietzel and Saban, most seasons of LSU football look like Les Miles' record.
Saban-envy is real contagious...it's spread from Southeast Alabama to Baton Rouge and Athens...
They have clearly forgotten themselves. Most seasons of LSU football, less Saban and Dietzel, can't hold a candle to Miles. McClendon won fairly regularly, but he only won one SEC title and couldn't beat Bear, so they ran him off for Bo Rein, who died in a plane crash before he ever coached a game, then Stovall (one winning season from three), then Arnsbarger (three good years and one SEC title, then Archer (two good years and then two bad with one shared SEC title) THEN Hallman (four straight losing seasons making six in a row), then DiNardo (three winning seasons followed by two losing seasons and then Saban. No major bowl appearances from 1987 through 2000. Sounds a lot like UGA post Dooley and pre-Richt.
Sugar Bowl after 2007. His last outstanding season was 2012. He's has 4 really good teams: 2002, 2005, 2007 and 2012. He's had 1 bad team: 2010. He's had a couple that leave you saying: So what?: This one, 2014, 2009, 2006. All the others got about as much as they could.
I'd argue that this team is really bad. The only team they truly handled was a South Carolina team that just lost to the Citadel. Outside of that, I'd say that Richt coached teams are perennial underachievers. He's gotten less with more than just about any other coach/team in recent memory. Too much talent passes through Athens for there to not be more hardware on display at Butts-Mehre.
Really bad teams lose to other really bad teams. Really bad teams don't win close games against average teams, such as Mizzou and Auburn. You can put GSU in there, as well. Above average teams do that, which is what we are this year. Would have been 10-2 or possibly 11-1 without the injury. Sure, the schedule was easy. Alabama would have still smoked us in the SECCG and we'd have wound up in the Citrus Bowl, which is about where we'll wind up if we beat Tech. Maybe the Outback. So, you're a Richt sucks, fire him guy? And replace him with? That's the other part of the equation. LSU is about to pay through the nose to run off Les Miles, who is a slightly more successful version of Richt, if you believe the foks "in the know" around here. He has a better class lined up than Richt at this point. I think they've lost their feeble minds.
Agree that we've underachieved, given the talent. So has Miles. So did Ole Bobby Bowden, Richt's mentor, who had more than anyone for two decades and had to cry his way into the 1993 NC after ND beat them in Week 12. So did Mack Brown.
What is the difference between 10-2 or 8-4? Nothing in this situation, you still won nothing and embarrassed the alum by not competing in the two biggest games of the year. Damn it, it's not the wins and the losses. It how we lost. That's the rub. You can quantify that when you look at Richts record.
We don't compete, which is absolutely no fun to watch!
We don't compete, which is absolutely no fun to watch!
Too many candy asses out there look at 9-10 wins as a success season, all the while ignoring the fact that for most years, the schedule has 9-10 wins built in! You can hose down that stank ass wildebeest you brought home from the bar and paint er up and soak er with perfume, but the next morning you're still dealing with waking up next to a stank ass wildebeest .
There is not a damn thing about this team that even comes close to above average. We've beaten two cupcakes and escaped a GSU team that we should never struggle with. We've beaten Vandy, and we didn't beat them all that convincingly. We beat a woeful Missouri team with an offense worse than our own in a field kicking contest. We barely beat a terrible Auburn team. The only teams we crushed were Kentucky and South Carolina, two terrible teams in their own right.
Will I take the wins anyway we can get them? Absolutely! However, we got trucked against the only two good teams we played and we lost to a mediocre at best Tennessee team despite leading 24-3. I'm also not convinced Florida is all that good. The record is incredibly deceiving. Vandy and Florida Atlantic played them far tougher than we did. There is absolutely nothing about this team filled with very talented players that is above average except for maybe the defense. The defense was very good with the exception of the Tennessee game, and they were good despite their youth and despite the fact that they were on the field all day and put in bad positons.
You can't use logic with Richtites. You're fighting against a religious ideology. It's like trying to reason with ISIS.
Logic is logic, pal. Sorry you didn't read it. But, hey, the Democrats will take you.
At the risk of having to call the Department of Redundancy Department on you, look at their record, look at the records of who they have lost to and the records of who they have beaten. Average is 6-6. Get a Republican to help you with the math and the logic from there.
A guy like you would have fired Ferentz up at Iowa because he hadn't had a good team since 2009 when they beat Tech in the Orange Bowl. Until this year, anyway. They're 12-0 playing for the right to go to the playoff next week. Worst case is they'll wind up in the Rose Bowl, which isn't a bad consolation. He's as good as they're going to get at Iowa. Richt is as good as we're likely to get at Georgia in the immediate future.
