LSU Fans Planning "March against Miles"

[Dukie]

I'm a (very) casual LSU fan, and they have every right to be upset. Miles' preparation of his team to manage end-of-game situations is criminal. Do y'all remember Ole Miss-LSU last year? Don't criticize the fans if you don't. Sending Jefferson back in for third down after you yanked him for Lee and Lee engineered that last drive? Sending in three subs for third and goal with 30 seconds left and the clock running? If June managed those games the way Miles did (imagine BLM being sent back in at the end of some game last year), all of us would be calling for the coach's head, and rightly so.

Their AD, however, is a joke (they "stole" Alleva from Duke and everyone in Durham was glad), so he'll do nothing.

[RednBlue11]

this scares me if you're a representative of "the casual LSU fan" that those die-hards will be drinking out of a tub of flavor aid very soon.... despite having an undefeated squad and a National Championship.

wack-jobs.

[westexSMU]

Hey LSU Fans : So your offense sucks right now, so what ? Your 5-0 right now and your in a rebuilding year no question, but you have a great Coach with a proven track record. He will get it straightened out. Just look at Texas. Their offense is pitiful. Terrible QB play at this time, UT is 3-2, and may soon be 3-3 after playing at Nebraska this week. They got blown away by a fairly weak UCLA team, but they are not talking about a "March against Mack Brown" because it would be nuts at this time if they did...

[ReedFrawg]

I'm a (very) casual LSU fan, and they have every right to be upset. Miles' preparation of his team to manage end-of-game situations is criminal. Do y'all remember Ole Miss-LSU last year? Don't criticize the fans if you don't. Sending Jefferson back in for third down after you yanked him for Lee and Lee engineered that last drive? Sending in three subs for third and goal with 30 seconds left and the clock running? If June managed those games the way Miles did (imagine BLM being sent back in at the end of some game last year), all of us would be calling for the coach's head, and rightly so.

Their AD, however, is a joke (they "stole" Alleva from Duke and everyone in Durham was glad), so he'll do nothing.

I agree with you...Miles is a moron. How do you let almost 30 seconds run off the clock at the end of the game on Saturday? Did they have no plan as to what to do on 3rd down if they didn't score on 2nd down??? LSU has won in spite of Miles ...not because of him...

[fivemon]

I would not put all the blame on miles, that qb had no idea what was going on (which is partly coaching, but any normal qb would immeadately line up the players.

[George S. Patton]

They do have some serious clock management issues. They got a huge break against Tennessee last week. To their credit, they took advantage of Tennessee's lack of organization.

But that's a problem.

What's worse is that Miles can't talk.

I guess their fans don't want to wait for the Ls to pile up so they can do this.

I'm willing to start a march against Tim Brewster at Minnesota. What a clusterjob that is. That's another program who can't run a two-minute offense. That crap against Northwestern on Saturday was just silly.

[Harry0569]

Interesting blurb about how teams take on the personality of their coaches (LSU and Minnnesnowta are mentioned)


Well, it took one month - and five weekends - for one of college football's most amazing yet enduring truths to emerge: Though players come and go every four years, the schools that play college football remain remarkably similar from year to year, adopting the textured personalities of people. It's always a mind-boggling encounter with reality - just how can endlessly fluid teams exhibit the same tendencies and produce the same cringe-inducing moments with different players and coaches, year after year?

Yes, it's true that some programs - think Michigan State for the better and Georgia for the worse - defied the progression of the past 10 years with their performances this weekend. Air Force also snapped a seven-game skid against Navy (though the Falcons were far more sluggish than many expected them to be), and Iowa State scored 52 points (!). For the most part, though, the identities of the nation's FBS programs were reaffirmed in week five:

Clemson was Clemson. Dabo Swinney hasn't transformed the culture in the Palmetto State. That was a Tommy Bowden-esque display this past Saturday against interception-happy Jacory Harris, who failed in his attempt to hand ACC leverage to the Tigers... because Clemson and Kyle Parker were worse. Of course! That's what Clemson does.

North Carolina State was a Tom O'Brien-coached team playing at home in a huge ACC game. Again, no explanation necessary.

If you saw Washington State's four-down sequence from the UCLA 1 in a 28-28 tie, followed by the Bruins' 72-yard run and subsequent touchdown, you'd know that "Couging it" is still a part of a Pac-10 fan's vocabulary.

Army blew a turn-the-corner game against Temple... just as it did last year.

LSU is still coached by Les Miles, of course (talk about your psych wards).

Arizona State once again fell short in an entirely winnable game against a good opponent, largely because of its own unforced errors in key situations. Nothing new there, no matter the coach in Tempe over the past several years.

Kentucky dropped a road SEC game that was there for the taking. Stop me if you've come across that tale of woe over the past few decades.

Minnesota still has the darndest time finishing off wins. In all fairness to Minnesota Athletic Director Joel Maturi, who has royally messed up the coaching situation for the Gopher program, Glen Mason did have problems in the fourth quarters of games before Tim Brewster came along.

Let's recall, too, that Texas A&M played entirely within character on Thursday against Oklahoma State.

The more things change, the more our old friends manifest the same psychic problems. These are people we've come to know over the course of many years and, in some cases, multiple decades.

This is some kind of sport, where schools act like living, breathing human individuals. I'll never cease to be fascinated by this dynamic.

[leopold]

Interesting blurb about how teams take on the personality of their coaches (LSU and Minnnesnowta are mentioned)

Whoo hoo!! The Ponies have pulled out the checkbook and become competitve again!

I'm a (very) casual LSU fan, and they have every right to be upset. Miles' preparation of his team to manage end-of-game situations is criminal. Do y'all remember Ole Miss-LSU last year? Don't criticize the fans if you don't. Sending Jefferson back in for third down after you yanked him for Lee and Lee engineered that last drive? Sending in three subs for third and goal with 30 seconds left and the clock running? If June managed those games the way Miles did (imagine BLM being sent back in at the end of some game last year), all of us would be calling for the coach's head, and rightly so.

Their AD, however, is a joke (they "stole" Alleva from Duke and everyone in Durham was glad), so he'll do nothing.

They are absolutely f@%!ed up and lucky as all hell. And I saw Ole Miss last year as well and am aware of Auburn the year before.

But they are still 5-0. You don't call for your coaches head, boo your players, are protest publically when you are 5-0 - NOTHING good comes of it. It's not just a matter of class, it has practical ramifications; You distract and insult the players you are claiming to support, you turn off potential recruits who wonder 'why go to a school that wins and gets booed' and if you fire the coach halfway through the season and he pulls a couple of upsets then you look stupid AND are in a hole.

WAIT TILL THE END, THEN GO AFTER HIS JOB, if need be.

[smupony94]

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[RednBlue11]

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being incorporated in the he rally to restore fear?

[smupony94]

SMUPONY94 Plans March against PonyFans.com

being incorporated in the he rally to restore fear?

Stephen Colbert personally called me

[RednBlue11]

you area blessed man

[EastStang]

The only thing LSU had going for it, was Tennessee was more confused and inept than they were.

[ReedFrawg]

I would not put all the blame on miles, that qb had no idea what was going on (which is partly coaching, but any normal qb would immeadately line up the players.

You mean the QB who had been on the bench through the entire drive up to that point but then got thrown into the game on 2nd down??? That was 100% coaching. Players were unsure coming on and off the field.

[RGV Pony]

anyone think that Fulmer wouldve lost the game with 13 players on the field?