re: What's your honest opinion of Miles?

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Let's just be brutally honest, here. Although there are quite a few good recruits that come out of LA high schools each season, most of them just don't pan out.


Hey idiot, La. is consistently ranked at the top of states with the most players in the NFL per capita.
LSU is in the top two or three college teams with the most players in the NFL also. Damn you're a dumb MF.

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I'm not saying that there haven't been some good players from LA and I'm not saying that Saban hasn't found a few that have actually played meaningful time, it's just hard.


That must be why Saban was so adamant about putting up a fence around La. when he became the coach at LSU. He still recruits La. players very hard and would have much more than 9 players if he had his way.

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That is because there is something about Louisiana players that just make them naturally inclined to be losers, laid back, French cultured loafers and not best suited to play football.


How many starters does Bama have from the state of Al.? I quickly glanced at the depth chart and only counted four or five starters. Must be something about the fat, lazy, redneck culture that makes Saban shy away from wanting to keep them at Bama.

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So, to be truthful, we can't blame Leslie's morass completely on him. It has a lot to do with what he has to pick from.


Idiot. LULZ

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I going to compress your stupidity and reply to it all at once, instead of wasting my time and individually quoting each response, like you chose to do with me.

I was talking about college. Collegiate athletes from Louisiana who play for the Corndogs, or other collegiate teams, are usually busts. It's hard to find a few good ones here and there.

Of course, Saban being familiar with LA found Collins and a couple of others during his tenure at Alabama. But, for God's sake, Alabama could have taken any recruit from Louisiana at any time they ever wished to during the practical whole history of their program and only chose to take NINE, 9, IX, EVER, before Saban.

That tells you something about the general sorry attitude and lazy persona of the great majority of Louisiana football players. It's just who they are, not really their fault or their parents fault, etc... it just is.

It's always been that way. Man, I'm only saying that maybe it isn't the fault of Les Miles that he is not a very good coach. It's just the state of Louisiana and it's culture.

Prenons du bons temps!

Good recruiter, that alone in college football makes your team pretty good.

A player's coach, player's love him and play hard for him.

Comes across like an absolute buffoon in interviews.

condescending son of a bitch.

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How many starters does Bama have from the state of Al.? I quickly glanced at the depth chart and only counted four or five starters. Must be something about the fat, lazy, redneck culture that makes Saban shy away from wanting to keep them at Bama.

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Sometimes I wish Saban would sign more players from Alabama, but when you are a well established national brand, it's inevitable that he'd make the move to recruit nationally. I've got no problem wih it 'cause it works.

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Eitla

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Let's just be brutally honest, here. Although there are quite a few good recruits that come out of LA high schools each season, most of them just don't pan out.

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Disagree 100% and with your response post, too. Louisiana is always loaded, and I am not sure about the point about the nine LA players you think Alabama has recruited over the years. Until Nick Saban arrived, we hardly recruited nationally, and not much further than adjoining states at best.

As to CLM, I think he is a great guy and a great defensive coach but he has never fielded an offense worthy of the LSU defenses. I like LSU more than any school outside of my team, but even Saban has evolved in his thinking about offensive play. Les has not evolved.

good coach ... not great ... gets enough talent to contend every now and then for titles ...

he's not going to hire an oc and give him the reigns, so i don't know how the offense will improve ... saban ain't the world's greatest offensive genius, but he does stress details/technique as well as anyone else ... miles doesn't do that, imo ... sims wasn't a qb recruit, and spent time at 4 different positions before settling in at back up qb ... he's turned out ok under saban ...

I think he is an extremely lucky coach.

LSU has seriously been one of the most boring teams to watch in quite a while as far as offense is concerned. And to me they have underchieved overall with as much talent as they bring in year in and year out

I think LSU's record next year will prove that the problems they've had this season have been less about scheme than youth. It pisses me off that so many LSU fans are quick to write off Miles even though he has turned in winning football teams with a huge amount of players leaving early. Growing pains are a constant part of football, and LSU is no exception to that rule.

Think about the difference between the '08-'09 LSU teams and the '10-'11-'12 LSU teams. I know this will be ignored because I'm a "gump" or whatever, but Jesus, a few of y'all need to grow up. It seems that the LSU players have done that a lot faster than some of the LSU fans on this site.

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Don't tell me about Bama's history. Bryant recruited nationally better and more than any other coach before him.

He had a very solid reason for not even bothering to hop, skip, and jump over to Louisiana and it's basically exactly what I have laid out.

He stated that they were too much trouble for too little reward.

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So, pre-1983, Coach Bryant recruited better than any other coach before him? Better than the national draw at schools like Notre Dame? Okay. And somehow Louisiana players "were (and in your opinion, still are) too much trouble for too little reward"?

This is just garbage. I'm glad Coach Saban doesn't agree with you, or no Cam Robinson or Landon Collins or Cameron Sims or Denzell Duvall. What you think may have been true in the 1970s is far from true today.

I like Miles.