Les Miles to Birdland.
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or It all depends on his OC hire. If he tries to run his pro style offense he isn't going to last long.
Big-name hire, but not a good fit, IMO. We’ll see. Maybe he’s had a revelation or two on offense.
Looking forward to some added weirdness in the conference, at least. The pregnant walking sweat gland in Ft. Worth will enjoy the company.
Looking forward to some added weirdness in the conference, at least. The pregnant walking sweat gland in Ft. Worth will enjoy the company.
Good to see Kansas still doesn't care about football.
We’ll sure... but who’s a good fit for Kansas?
I don't think so. I think many people just got fooled by the "Mad Hatter" hype at LSU, which made him a much bigger name than he ever should have been.
Think about it. During the time when Mack Brown was a national punchline due to him being thoroughly embarrassed by Stoops annually, Mack was undefeated against Miles at OSU. I mean Mack was literally Coach Klein to Bob's Coach Red. Yet he still owned Miles.
Then Les went to LSU and lived large off the house that Saban built, until that wore off and he became exposed for the clueless idiot he is.
Meanwhile, the OSU program has been much more relevant under Coach Mullet, than they ever were with Miles.
I never fell for the ESPN "Mad Hatter" bullshit hype. I said that was a terrible hire, and that LSU would live to regret it.
Now, all that being said, the only benefit Kansas gets is name recognition thanks to false hype, but that won't get him far at Kansas. He's going to have to actually coach, which he has no clue how to do. The man is a simpleton.
Mark Mangino?
KU will never be anything special in football, but as weevil has argued, their only chance for moderate, sustained relevance in this era is by focusing on offense first. They’re not likely to be able to recruit the athletes to have a consistently strong defense in the most offense-minded conference in this golden age of offensive football.
Miles is great if you’re hiring for name recognition, but his offenses have mostly sucked for a long time, and his recruiting ability at a big-name program with a talent-rich state all to itself probably isn’t going to carry over to KU as much as they hope.
Welcome back, by the way.
If the main criterion was name recognition, yes. Fool’s gold, IMO. They tried that with Weis already.
I agreed with ya until the last line. Kansas achieved higher levels of success in Big 12 football than A&M ever did.
Now THAT's funny! Need to find a way to work in the constant hiking up of his pants and nervous mannerisms and that will describe Patterson to a T.
Really can't believe Miles took that job.
But if he can turn KS into the Vanderbilt of the Big XII, that would probably be a good thing.
Let him have all the two-stars he wants, and let him cobble together some six win seasons.
It helps the Big XII if KS is respectable.
But if he can turn KS into the Vanderbilt of the Big XII, that would probably be a good thing.
Let him have all the two-stars he wants, and let him cobble together some six win seasons.
It helps the Big XII if KS is respectable.
Come on guys. We're serious about getting the football program turned around, but the state of the program dictates that we're not going to be able to hire Saban away from Alabama or any other such ridiculous coaching hire. However, if you had asked me a year ago, I would have classified this coaching hire as one of those ridiculous examples. We're not at rock bottom right now. We were pretty much there under Charlie Weis, but we're not far above it right now. If Miles is able to get us up to a .500 team in conference, we're way ahead of where we are now. I'm excited by this hire and I think all KU fans should be too.
If I were a KU fan, I would be concerned if Miles tries to run his pro style offense like he did at LSU. IMO KU will never have the personnel to run this type of offense like LSU did. He needs to run a spread offense to have a reasonable chance to keep up with other teams in the Big 12. 3 yards and a could of dust ain't gonna cut it for KU in the Big 12.
I think you're overlooking the fact that the #1 problem at KU right now is the scholarship situation. We don't even have our full allotment of scholarship athletes. The #1 job for Miles and his staff will be to get our recruiting situation worked out. We'll be far better off just by getting that corrected.
For me, it's not about whether KU can hire the "big name" or not. It's about fit. And Miles, with his heavy reliance on ridiculous defensive talent for wins at LSU and his consistently underwhelming offenses (despite great talent there as well), just strikes me as a poor fit, especially in this conference and at a program where he just isn't going to be able to assemble anything close to the defensive (or offensive) talent he previously had. From my perspective, KU was far too focused on the name and not nearly enough on the fit.
It may all work out great, of course. But Miles is going to have to hire an OC who will run an up-to-date spread offense effectively, and then he's going to have to let that OC do his job rather than constantly meddle with and muck up his offenses.
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The recruiting numbers will sort themselves out. The reality is, no coach is going to be able to recruit the kind of players at Kansas like you'd get at a Texas, OU, a&m or LSU. If Miles can implement a high powered spread offense and successfully recruit some 3-stars, that's about as much as you could ask for, IMO. Those same kids in a pro-style offense will fail in the Big 12. Surely Miles gets this.
The thing that Lester better understand right off the bat is that arguably his most important player on his team is his qb. If he trots out one of those SEC scrubs he was so fond of, he gone real soon. He better have a qb who can throw and throw real good because he isn’t going to have a shut down defense in this league. Chucklz at Tua setting an Alabama td record at 31
Hold up MM..... John Riggins went to Kansas. You give the mad hatter 22 John Riggins clones and he'll cause havoc!
I'm still waiting to see if @12375CAT is hot or just crazy--- or both. She uses all prime numbers, you know.
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