re: Is it SEC Championship or Bust for LSU in 2016

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Losing to Bama and some other team and not making the SEC Championship will be it for him. I don't think he can survive losing to Bama again unless he somehow makes the SEC Championship despite the loss.

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Beating Alabama and winning the SEC West would certainly help, but that isn't necessary to save his job. For purposes of saving his job, he better look at Arkie and Ole Miss. A loss to Alabama is understandable, and a failure to win the West, even for five years as it has been, is understandable. Losing to Arkansas and Ole Miss in anything other than an anomalous upset is not. Any coach at LSU who cannot beat those two teams at least 2/3rds of the time deserves to be fired. Right now, Miles is 13-9 against them in his 11-year tenure. Even a sweep this year would not get his record against them to where any decent coach in his position should have it. A split or losing both should get him fired. Will it? One would hope so, but LSU is always stupidly lenient with coaches.