BengalBrian

Trevor Story plays for an old friend of mine who coaches at Irving High. He reports that the kid is an excellent shortstop with some power (6 HR's last season). He was MVP as a sophmore in the highest classification in Texas and hit over .400 this past season as a Junior.

I know one thing for sure...I will not apologize for you any more Books...you are beyond help when it comes to pessimism and negativity...can we fire you instead?

found these posts on other sites and thought they were excellent and needed to be posted here:

(sorry they are long, so if you are one of those here who cannot read more than two sentences, don't read this; I did edit out some to shorten):

I like the Ensminger hire. He has good experience at major schools across the southeast, he is a former player who we know will do everything he can to win here.

And what exactly were people expecting us to hire for the TE's coach that would wow them? Hall of fame NFL tight ends like Kellen Winslow or Mike Ditka? Did they think that maybe we would get Saban or Jon Gruden to come in an coach tight ends?

Do they think this hire is going to make or break this team?

Give me a f______ break.

This guy is a good hire for this program, the s___ we are reading on the internet only enforces what we have been saying all along.

People will go to any length to spew negative s___ about Miles and the team now.

I guess the next thing will be that the grad assistants we bring in for this year suck or that the student trainers we have shouldn't be there. How about the team doctor, the fact that James Andrews isn't the team doctor shows that Miles really sucks and he needs to go.


The Truth About Steve Ensminger
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After reading all of the negative posts all over the place regarding Steve Ensminger returning to LSU, I felt it was about time somebody actually told the truth about the situation.

Steve has been hired to be the TE's coach at LSU, not the Qb coach. He was hired because he was hands down the best interview of the seven people interviewed as per the coaches.

....... He decided to leave the security of that job, risk his family's financial future, to come to LSU and pursue his dream job KNOWING the pressure cooker he is walking into under Miles....

How about someone standing up for someone who would run through a wall to get to Baton Rouge after Miles wouldn't even grant him an interview even after Tommy Tuberville even called in a recommendation. How about standing up for someone that actually played for LSU and has a part in the tradition??

Yes, Steve coached at Smith Station H.S. in Alabama last year. After no interview from Miles - after passing on several offers including following former Auburn DC Paul Rhoads to Iowa State. He stayed for several reasons - 1) he had two years left to be vested in Alabama - this cut it in half, 2) his youngest daughter was entering her senior year of high school, and 3) Tommy Tuberville was a good bet to take him with in 2010 wherever he landed.

As fate would have it, Tuberville lands Texas Tech. He's smart to keep the air raid offense - has to hire from the Mumme, Leach, coaching tree and settles on 29 year old Neal Brown from Troy as OC who played for Mumme and Leach at Kentucky .......Needless to say Tuberville couldn't stick Steve down Brown's throat and Brown was a little wary so Tuberville hires Steve as offensive quality control (in the box for the game) and high school relations. Steve could have easily stayed put at Texas Tech as long as Tuberville was there and gotten his benefits from the state of Texas (He would have been vested in texas retirement system with two more years there).

This brings me to Steve Ensminger as a coach. Would this be an exciting hire if he was offensive coordiinator?? No! As tight ends??? It's a solid hire. He is a good x's and o's coach. He knows the game and more importantly knows the RUNNING GAME. The offenses he has been affiliated with have usually been good running teams. He gives them an extra voice on offense. He gives them a position coach who help get back the aggressive edge on the line of scrimmage. As much as everyone wants to talk about Jordan Jefferson, if LSU doesn't get better on the line of scrimmage and finish higher than 11th in the SEC in rushing this year - we'll be looking at a whole new staff a year from now.

Steve is a good recruiter, not a great one. ...... This staff doesn't need another recruit only guy - they have the talent - they need to cultivate it.

The bottom line is that is a good hire but it's the TE coach! What's the last great TE hire? How many staff's are made or lost on this hire??? A memo to Tiger fans - Jon Gruden, Tony Dungy, nor Bill Cowher were interested in this position.

I'm tired of the negativity around this place. It's the same reason half the ex-players want nothing to do with this program - the 10 percent of the fans that are flat out assholes. The guy mentioned earlier on this board who posted on Sonny Shipp's board. What does he know about anything? He's part of the problem! Who the hell is Sonny Shipp and does he have a clue about how to put a jock strap on correctly?

How about someone applaud a former LSU player who is rolling the dice because he wants a chance to come to his dream job and try to fix the situation and not run to flippin' Conference USA to coach special teams. How about someone say something positive about this program because like it or not Les Miles is the head coach next year.

I thought everyone knew that the problems with our defensive line not materializing fell at the feet of Ex-Coach Lane. He was a recruiter and nothing more. That has been the information from players and coaches that has materialized over the past year. He was a terrible defensive line coach, as evidenced by Wood's obvious improvement in only one year under Coach Haley. We should continue to see improvement now in our defensive front.

Woods has said that if he had had four years under Haley, he knows he would have been a much better defensive tackle than he was at the end of this season. He is too good of a person and will not say anything bad about Lane, but the presumption from what he said is that he learned nothing from his previous line coach that helped him to improve and prepare for the NFL. Note that Francois failed to improve from his Soph to his Junior year under Lane as well.

Injuries did hamper Alexanders play (severe knee injury) and Woods did not reach his potential. However, from all accounts some of the blame for the D line's failures to improve can be traced to Lane's tenure as d line coach.

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...To those on here who called bullshite or this was just someone trying to juice up the crowds for the Bash or just saying something general to sound like I knew something....all I will say is four words to you:

Ferguson,
Boone,
Fobbs,
Copeland


Congrats Coach Miles and company...great finish. Not enough can be said about how you stayed on kids throughout the process, even when it looked like you had your class full and did not need to be doing so. It paid off and you had contingencies in place to pull in kids at the last minute like I have not seen before here at LSU.

admit you were wrong. Trevon not only considered switching but was prepared to do so, until we had signed four WR's. Only then did he stick with his auburn commitment. Obviously to have said there was no way he would change to LSU was wrong.

past signing day. Wright is in.

Sorry I could not elaborate last nite on Fobbs, Copeland and Boone....parents asked that it be kept quit.

Rx'd.....you wrote this:
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"Well, you can act like a immature douche or laugh at this post like it was intended to do.

Obviously I'm not saying that a fb group means anythign, I'm just trying to give some comic relief in these last few days."

You wasted your time...if it was "some comic relief" you wanted, all you had to do is type the words: "auburn university tigers...uh, I mean, um, war ea...uh, I mean, plainsmen..."

That would have brought a much better laugh.
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Haley is supposedly tight with his Dad, is all I know. I cannot say more than that on here. I can say that there is a very mutual respect between the two and Haley has us in a position where we need to be with this kid. It is up to the kid now. It is a tough decision for a 17 or 18 year old to make, especially when they have the type of talent and size he has. This is a life changing decision.

so, saying he is all over the place is not entirely accurate or fair. He has numerous schools he likes and respects. Even mature adults sometimes, faced with several options of what to do are torn about what to do. Give the kid a break. He is doing it the right way and weighing all his options, likes and dislikes and thinking about what is the right fit for him.

Hope he chooses us, and I hope he sees that he can play early here, but with so many coaches telling him what he wants to hear, sometimes a kid will make a decision not based on the real truth of the matter.