re: At how many of your schools is 13-10 in the SEC acceptable?

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You're fricking embarrassing. Cherry picking years is for auburn.

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Well we are 2-8 over the last 10 SEC games

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Perfect timing.

Now you're bookending cherrypicking.

Saban was 14-10 in conference play at MSU, right before LSU hired him.

13-10 sorry

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this movement to fire Coach Miles is purely driven by emotion.There has been very little logic inserted into any of the arguments that I have heard

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I've been a Miles hater for years. I've dreaded watching the misuse of talent, lack of fundamentals, inability to manage a clock, unawareness of timeout strategy, ineptness of QB development, the plethora of penalties, mystical play calling and design, predictability from formations, lack of creativity to maximize talent, making a first down an elusive stat, difficulty in getting a play called, etc. etc. etc. And none of that cropped up only in the last year or two. I've been watching that nonsense since he got here. Sometimes the silliness worked, but it never distracted from these incompetencies of the Miles era.

His two best teams, 2007 and 2011, were awful at times. The 2007 squad dropped two games in inexplicable fashion and he only got a shot at the title because it was a fluke year for all of college football. His 2011 team had an amazing defense that allowed his offense to flourish late in games, but I also saw games that season where first-half production was non-existent in embarrassing fashion.

Is that logical enough for you?

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Let the man finish the season, evaluate his performance logically and then make your decision.

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Yet, I can't argue with that. I know keeping the guy for the rest of the season will only produce more of the same inconsistency and mystery. But, I think your statement is fair. I honestly wish Miles would resign and save our program from soiling itself by being undignified in its divorce from him.

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Saban was 14-10 in conference play at MSU, right before LSU hired him.

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I hated the Saban hire at the time, and declared him a failure when he lost to UAB.

Saban at MSU had an almost identical record as Dinardo at LSU, and lost their head-to-head match-up.

I saw it as a lateral hire. I was obviously wrong, which only shows what a roll of the dice a coaching hire can be.

I was thrilled the morning I woke up to the "Miles to Michigan" report on ESPN the day of the SEC title game in 2007. I called a buddy of mine to celebrate his departure. Little did I foresee that by the end of that day, we'd be playing for a national title and would "have a great day."

College football is crazy, and that's why I like it, win or lose.

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Other coaches will see what you did and want no part of your knee jerk reaction

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A good coach will recognize a great opportunity, not worry about how they might be fired if they frick up. However, the coaching fraternity is a real thing, so LSU's admin should be careful in how professionally they handle this.

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"how many of your schools thing losing 5 straight to bama acceptable?" that is the root of all of this.

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It's definitely a problem, but not the root of all of it. Finishing 94th or lower on offense six out of seven years is part of it. Being a combined 5-5 vs. Ole Miss, Arky and Auburn under their current coaches is part of it. In the last four years, he has not won a single game as an underdog, and has lost six times as a favorite. It's not just Alabama he's not beating.

He is almost a carbon copy of Charles McClendon. When we got rid of Mac, the program did better over the next nine years than it had in his last nine. That was even after the coach we hired to take his place was killed in a plane crash before he ever coached a game, leaving us frantically having to find a replacement in Jerry Stovall.

Miles, like McClendon, will go down as one of the great coaches for LSU, but it's time to say goodbye. He's had more than ample opportunity to show that he could be flexible and change his offensive style, and he has steadfastly refused to do so. He is reaping what he sowed with his stubborn refusal to admit that it's not the 1970s any more.