re: How can anyone honestly say Miles got out coached?

Wait what? As you said we are severely limited at QB. I agree. Where I take issue is that you seem to suggest poor ole Les is saddled with it, that it was something totally out of his control.

Les is responsible for recruiting including QB's, Les is responsible for ensuring at every position inducing QB there are kids developed enough to execute an even modest passing attack. Les is responsible along with yet staff to develop QB's.

If as you state we are limited at a QB, Les needs to look in the mirror.

If Miles had a handle on the d, Bama would never had moved the ball. LSU wins.

I thought the worst coaching decision of the night was made by the guy who decided it was a good idea to keep bombing away at arguably the best secondary in the nation and kept coming up empty. This, despite the fact that the defense had proven that it could be gashed and the running back was averaging 4.5 yds a carry.

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Miles didn't get outcoached at all. He and Saban both called conservative plays and made sound decisions. I think Les and his staffs inability to develop QBs, and the ineptness on offense because of our poor QB is what helped us lose. Les has a big weakness in football strategy as it relates to personnel decisions, tendencies and exploiting opponets weaknesses

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That is getting outcoached, just not during the game.

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I think you just described Saban.

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No, I didn't. Saban has his teams ready and prepared to play. Hell, going into last season he's won three of the last five national titles. Saban gets about the same talent as LSU, but he is able to utilize that talent better. That's a fact.

Last year all the talk on here was how great Cam was at working with Mett and developing quarterbacks. Did he suddenly forget how?

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We've been running down their throats all game and all of the sudden we need to pass for the whole OT series?

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I swear this board is bipolar ... read one post and it says we ran the ball no matter what. Read another and it complains that we didn't run in OT. I can say with 100% certainty that this fanbase will never be satisfied.

I think Mett was so good and had worked under different programs to develop. Remember for the majority of 2012 he was terrible. He put in the work with OBJ and JL and they became good. But you have to see through the numbers. He was only throwing it too OBJ or JL, he was locked in, he didn't make many progressions. The TE has been non-existant for almost a decade, which is troubling given the prolific rise of TEs in the Pro game, the same Pro game our OC came from and offensive style we run. JL and OBJ were just too good to be shut down.

I get the argument that all the skill players are young, and kudos to Grimes and his boys, they are really coming along, Pocic will be a 1st rd talent. But I feel like the argument is moot because we have had experienced teams marred with the same problems.

Eventually our guys are gonna be juniors or possibly seniors and we will overwhelm them with talent, but again, overwhelming with talent means lackluster coaching and poor development especially if we keep making the same mistakes that we make every single year in the Les Miles tenure. We have had the same problems under different OCs and experienced/non experienced QBs and players. That trend points to one man an it's Les.

LSU's coaches called a great game. They got exactly the type of game they wanted, a low scoring slug fest, the type of game LSU could win with a severely limited QB.

The only thing you can second guess is the play calling in the OT. LSU had avoided putting their fate in the QB's hands the whole night and that might have been a good time to start. It's almost like knowing a TD was needed caused a little panic.