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LSU has fired football coach Les Miles and offensive coordinator Cam Cameron and promoted defensive line coach Ed Orgeron to interim head coach, the school announced Sunday.Miles firing, first reported by the Baton Rouge Advocate, comes one day after LSU lost 18-13 at?Auburn?when referees overruled what had appeared to be a game-winning touchdown. Replay showed that LSU did not start the final play before the game clock hit zero.Decisions like this are never easy ones to make, athletic director Joe Alleva said in a statement Sunday night. Coach Miles has done a tremendous job here and hes been a great ambassador for our University, which makes this even more difficult.However, its apparent in evaluating the program through the first month of the season that a change has to be made. Our commitment to excellence and competing at the highest level is unwavering, and our goals for the remainder of this season havent changed. We have an obligation to our student-athletes to put them in the best position to have success on the football field each week and we have great confidence that coach Orgeron will do just that.Sources told ESPNs Chris Low that the decision to dismiss Miles was made late Saturday night after the Auburn game.So ends the 12-year reign of one of the quirkiest and most popular coaches in SEC history -- one who was as famous for his oddball behavior like eating grass as he was for winning games at an impressive clip.Miles expected to contend for a national championship with a veteran-laden team this season, but a 2-2 start was enough to bring about the end.?The coaching change is a move that to some degree was 10 months in the making.Texas A&M defensive coordinator John Chavis, who was Miles defensive coordinator for six seasons at LSU, told ESPN on Monday that he sensed toward the end of his tenure that power brokers were plotting to force Miles out as coach.Its always sad to see a man and a coach the caliber of Les get pushed out, said Chavis, who left for Texas A&M following the 2013 season. Hes a Hall of Famer and a legend in the state of Louisiana. I was blessed that he gave me an opportunity to coach at a place like LSU, but I cant say Im surprised that hes gone. They were trying to fire him when I was there, and I told him so.Orgeron, 55, is a Louisiana native who began his college career as a lineman at LSU.He was head coach at Ole Miss from 2005 to 2007, compiling a 10-25 record. He was the interim coach at?USC?in 2013 when Lane Kiffin was fired. Orgeron led the Trojans to a 6-2 record that included a win over No. 3 Stanford. He left?USC when the school chose Steve Sarkisian as coach.Coach O brings new energy. He is pumped up. I am excited to play for Coach O, center Ethan Pocic said. Its not easy. College football is a business. The best thing I can do is do whatever Coach O asks us. Hes our coach now.Miles survived a November coup attempt last year, when consecutive humiliating losses to Alabama, Arkansas?and Ole Miss nearly led to his dismissal. Many Tigers fans arrived at the emotional season-ending contest against?Texas A&M?expecting to see The Mad Hatter coach his final game in purple-and-gold, only to learn after the Tigers 19-7 victory that LSUs administration had decided to keep Miles in charge.Then circumstances quickly seemed to turn in Miles favor.The Tigers wrapped up the 2015 season with a resounding bowl win over Texas Tech then lost just one underclassman -- far fewer than the norm in recent years -- to the NFL draft, allowing LSU to return a whopping 18 starters for the 2016 season. Miles also made a well-received hire, nabbing defensive coordinator Dave Aranda away from Wisconsin, and signed ESPNs No. 3 recruiting class in February, with LSUs 19 ESPN 300 signees matching the best total for any program since ESPN began compiling recruiting rankings a decade ago.However, the fire under Miles seat reignited as soon as the 2016 season started, with an impotent offensive performance against Wisconsin producing a 16-14 upset, the Tigers first season-opening defeat in Miles 12 seasons in Baton Rouge. The offense had looked a bit better since Danny Etling supplanted Brandon Harris at quarterback early in Week 2 but fell flat again versus Auburn. The Tigers scored just one touchdown on the Plains, and Etlings last-second touchdown pass to D.J. Chark was waved off once replay officials determined LSU did not start the play in time.Blame Miles issues on insufficient quarterback recruiting and development or on a general lack of offensive innovation. The bottom line was simply that Miles won less frequently in recent years than he did in the early portion of his Tigers tenure.Miles posted a 75-18 record (41-15 SEC) in his first seven seasons at LSU -- a stretch that included three SEC West titles, two SEC titles, a BCS championship and another title game appearance.It was that second BCS championship game appearance, when then-undefeated LSU lost to Alabama in a rematch from earlier in the season, that many Tigers fans circle as the turning point in Miles tenure. Alabama won 21-0, but the score hardly describes the level of humiliation that accompanied the Tigers loss. LSU finished the game with 92 yards of total offense -- far and away the worst offensive performance in BCS title game history.Since the Tigers fell face-first on that enormous stage, LSU has lost more than three games in each full season and failed to win a division or conference title. The Tigers winning percentage in that five-year stretch -- 70.9 percent overall and 61.8 percent in conference play -- was well short of the consistency Miles displayed in his first seven seasons (80.6 percent overall, 73.2 percent SEC).The biggest problem in recent years came in division play, especially when it came time to face Alabama. The Tigers went 2-7 against Ole Miss, Arkansas and Alabama over the previous three seasons and havent beaten Alabama since the 2011 regular season, a stretch of five straight defeats to the Tide.Those losses to Nick Sabans SEC powerhouse sometimes came in heartbreaking fashion -- on a last-minute AJ McCarron touchdown pass to T.J. Yeldon in 2012 or a blown late lead in an overtime loss in 2014 -- but the result was always the same. Once again, the Tigers had suffered a loss to their most-hated rival and occupied second-tier status in college footballs toughest division.That was supposed to change this season with Heisman Trophy contender Leonard Fournette leading a roster loaded with future NFL players like cornerback TreDavious White, safety Jamal Adams, linebacker Kendell Beckwith, edge rushers Lewis Neal and Arden Key, and receivers Malachi Dupre and Travin Dural.But the poor start was apparently enough for Alleva and LSUs power brokers to pull the trigger on this long-debated move. They dispatched a coach whose 114-34 record and 77.0 winning percentage are best among modern-day LSU coaches and match up with the most successful coaches in SEC history.Miles is 16th all time in wins as an SEC coach, one shy of Johnny Majors (Tennessee) and Frank Thomas (Alabama). 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It might be a slight surprise for some of you to see Jackie in that company, but lets get into the legacies of each in what makes for a tough ranking between the three of them.Rogers Hornsbys case can effectively be boiled down to the 10-year stretch of extraordinary performance he put up at the outset of the live ball era starting in 1920. Through 1929, Hornsby hit .382/.460/.637 with 770 extra-base hits while winning seven batting titles. If you like WAR, hes No. 1 there as well. Its a case for all-time dominance that rests on the unquestioning assumption that what you see on the page is all you need to know, because very few of us alive today saw him play in his prime.And while the same factors are in play with Hornsby that are also the case with Lou Gehrig or Honus Wagner -- playing in small, unintegrated leagues with poor competitive balance -- on their face the numbers are unimpeachable. If you want a case built on reading a stat line and going no further, Hornsby is your guy, even if it means skipping over a few criticisms of his indifferent defense or a personality that contributed to teams readiness to ditch him in the back half of his career, at a time when free agency didnt exist.But if you like numbers, Rogers Hornsby provides. Hes the statistical choice.Joe Morgans case is a variation on that theme. Hes the greatest second baseman in the history of the game since the game was fully integrated. He ranks fourth all-time in WAR among second basemen behind Hornsby, Nap Lajoie and Eddie Collins, fourth behind them in peak WAR, fourth behind them in Jay Jaffes JAWS metric blending peak and career value.Hes second all time among second basemen in stolen bases and first in walks. Evaluations of his defense rate him among the greats. In The Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James referred to him as the best percentage player in baseball history, citing his defense, base stealing and walk rate, while ranking him the best second baseman in the games history. With Johnny Bench, Tony Perez and Pete Rose, he was a part of the offensive quartet thhat made the Big Red Machine one of the greatest teams of all time, winning back-to-back MVP awards in 1975-1976.ddddddddddddHes the analytical choice, and all other things aside, hed be my guy, but for one thing.Second base is where Jackie Robinson played most of the time. Take a step back from the numbers, because this isnt that kind of argument. It cant be, because Robinson played just 10 years, far too few to rack up the counting stats that might flesh out a career in this kind of conversation.As fans, we ask of athletes what they ask of themselves: Greatness, at its simplest. To rise to every challenge their sport presents them with. To be excellent. And in the broadest of broad strokes, how many baseball players faced the challenge Jackie did, breaking baseballs color line? Who could conceivably have done it better? I know Ive upset some of you with my disinclination to hallow the great numerical accumulators of the games pre-integration era, but in part thats because, of all the things ever done on a diamond with a stick and a ball, there is no one thing greater than what Jackie Robinson did, for the game or for history.Jackie doesnt have the numbers. He was asked to do something more important, and he delivered. Its why he belongs in a conversation about who the greatest American athlete of the 20th century might be, in the company of Ali, Jordan, Jackie Joyner-Kersee or Jesse Owens. Its a conversation that doesnt include Hornsby or Morgan, not to slight them in the least.If you want to tell the story of baseball, you can tell it without mentioning a great many of the great players weve talked about in #MLBRank. But you cannot tell that story without Jackie Robinson. And if you were going to reduce the game to one team, one starting nine, the people who should be the imperishable example on some field of dreams, one of those nine men has to be Jackie Robinson.At this level of greatness within the game, there are no wrong answers. But in this trio, Jackie Robinson is consciences choice, and its the credit of the game that it gave him to us, not the other way around. ' ' '