Dear Les:
I have watched the Les Miles Era unfold at LSU with a mixture of weeping, headaches, stomach aches, angry text messages, drunken rants, lost bets, and the occasional sublime moment. (The 2007 Sugar Bowl will always remain in my heart.) As your official LSU bio suggests, your success has been notable: 22-4, impressive victories in the Peach and Sugar Bowls, etc, etc, yada, yada, and oh yeah, having your football stadium and facilities being turned into a refugee camp and dealing with slightly distracted players in the fall of your first season. You talked a 2-loss LSU into a BCS game last year, and sent four fine young men into the first round of the NFL Draft.
However, Les, along with the high points, there have been some terrible lows. Most saner LSU fans will give you a pass for the collapse against Tennessee in 2005. That team was emotionally and physically exhausted. The epic loss 7-3 against Auburn last year? That sucked, but that was one of the hardest hitting, most ridiculously brutal football games that I have ever been privileged to watch. Almost losing to Ole Miss last year? Questionable, but it was an almost. The terrible loss in The Swamp last year? Yeesh. The offense fell apart. However, as (f*ck) Florida did end up winning the national championship last year, you get another pass on that.
However, I think I can speak for all LSU fans when I tell you that the era of your free passes is over and done with.
Don’t f*ck this up.
Sincerely, the Mean Lil’ Black and Gold Girl
October 2, 2007 at 3:42 am |
Yoor Knot A Reel Phan. Give you a pass for Teh Tennessee Debacle? While wearing a ridiculous looking Playskool’s My First Headset? Not. Bloody. Likely. Miles had a difficult time being edumahcated into SEC footballl. Luckily, Pelini wasn’t such a slow learner. Miles will be forever reminded of his loss to the Vols. And well he should be. I’ll give him his loss to the Nat’l Champion…and his loss to the only team that beat the Nat’l Champion (gawd I hate Auburn) but Sabanizing aside…he’s got his team right where he wants them. And if he wants to appease certain Bengal promoters…he needs to prove his ass can cash checks his mouth has been writing. We’re convinced of Pelini…and more impressed by him than Saban and Muschamp. NFL’s complicated defenses aren’t what the NCAA doctor ordered…and yet Bo has been stifling with his own order of “…and a side of turnovers with that?” I’m a believer in Bo…Les has yet to impress me…just like he’s been struggling his last 2 years. Miles has shown me that he can play well with players, and that he can coast on his own. Tiger fans need to see a convincing win against a true champion. Aside from VT’s rolling over, we haven’t seen that yet. I’m hoping Florida will give Miles’ detractors just what they’ve been craving.
October 2, 2007 at 3:58 am |
Agreed. We all need to see something more from Coach Miles than we’ve got the last two years. I don’t see how he’ll ever get a better shot than this Saturday.