LSU Fans Beginning To See Les Is Not More When It Comes To Coaching

LSU fans are beginning to show some division. The loyal fans who praised Les Miles as the second coming of a Bengal Messiah who could continue to lead this team to more greatness are now divided.

Some still see him as the great recruiter, which he undeniably is, and a great coach. Others see him as a great recruiter who doesn't have a clue what it takes to get a team to the end of the regular season undefeated and focused.

Yes, we all know he has a ring on his finger you can point to, but he won that with players who were still disciplined by Nick Saban standards and conditioned into shape both mentally and physically by him.

Tonight, I ran across a familiar name on an LSU forum. His real name is Jim Nall and he goes by Maximus. He's no Johnny-come-lately, he's been a member of that forum for over five years and posted over 93,000 posts there, mostly positive ones. But I saw tonight he has finally had enough.

His post, at http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/messagetopic.asp?sp=16201050&b=1&s=1&p=16168594

And it says:

Year 5 of Les' program, all of his recruits in yet we're: - still having senior WRs negating big plays because they can't line up on the line of scrimmage correctly like 7th graders

-Still running meerkat to make sure everyone is confused and we can kill any drive that we accidentally get going because of sheer talent by one of our studs
-Still have no idea how to manage the clock or your timeouts -Still make ZERO halftime adjustments and look like absolute shite for the second half because other teams have actual coaches who make adjustments. Les announcing to Wolfson after halftime that the offense and defense were perfect and he needed to change nothing in the 2nd half was very reassuring.

-Still have players completely out of shape, dropping left and right like flies from injuries and conditioning AND being completely out of gas from the start of the 4th quarter on.
-Have a kid fly in to block a punt at the worst possible angle for the 2nd week in a row because hey if he can get away with it vs Tulane than surely it will work against Alabama, right? right?
-Still have no clue which QB on your roster is the one you need to win a game for you.
-Still have as much of a grasp on when to go for 2 point conversions and when not to as the average Bengal Belle.

Can't wait til all the Miles Marching apologists come in here to tell us that Miles is the man to keep this program at the top (which it no longer is at BTW) and that he outcoached Saban but we WUZ ROBBED by dem mean refs. Everything positive we did in that game was the result of either great individual efforts by great players on mediocre to bad play calls (see Shepard, Scott, Jefferson, Toliver, Ridley) or just horrible plays by Bama's shitty ginger QB.

How excited are you to know that no matter how much talent we can accumulate (if the 1985 bears are put back in a time machine, granted college eligibility and all sign with LSU) we will still be GUARANTEED to lose at least 2 games a year? I'm pretty pumped.

(End of Maximus' post)

I was saying as early as two years ago that once Nick Saban's players all departed, the magic would be gone from LSU. Not because he can't get talent, but because he can't develop it and get the most from it.

Les may be licking his chops just waiting for the Rich Rodriguez firing so he jump ship and get out of a conference where he is so badly over matched. Not by talent, but by coaches who know what to do with it.

And the talent pipeline will soon start drying up. Coaches are already telling recruits that if you want a chance to win a minor bowl and learn from a coach who is considered second-rate by most NFL coaches, go play at LSU. If you want to win championships, you might want to look at (insert your name here).

It's time for LSU to face the fact they are loaded with as much talent as they'll have for a long time, and if all they can do with it is settle for second tier status, that's just fine for the rest of the SEC.

But the LSU fans must now come to grip with the fact that Les is not more when it comes to coaching ability.