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Why start at 2001? I started at 2000 (Saban's first year at LSU) and ended in 2016 (most recent season). I looked at the final AP & Coach's Poll for every season and found:

6 times LSU finished in top 10 in either or both polls.
7 times LSU finished 15th or lower in either or both polls (including 4 seasons unranked).
4 times finished ranked between 11 - 14

Again, LSU finishing outside of the top 10 is the case more often than finishing inside, which I only brought up in response to the poster saying LSU was "used to being 1-10".

Your information was incorrect and I was correcting you.

Again, LSU finished Top 10 SEVEN times, not 5 times or 6 times from 2001-2011. That's an 11 year span of Saban/early Miles. From 2003-2011, 6 times in 9 seasons. After the 2011 season, we haven't finished Top 10 the last 5 seasons, so again, pretty easy to see why Miles was fired. We were used to being Top 10 more times than not previously. 6/9 times from 2003-2011, 7/11 times from 2001-2011. Precedent was set, Miles blew it up in the second half of his tenure because he couldn't do what we had been doing a lot for around a decade previous to 2012.

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And if it was just "Saban's players", then how did Les manage to finish Top 10 in 2010 and 2011 with zero guys saban recruited on the roster? this was always a dumb argument. Our recruiting actually improved under Miles vs. Saban. It was a matter of poor coaching, not talent.

This post was edited on 5/8/17 at 3:58 pm