Hmm....there's probably valid parallels there as well.
When Miles was fired I agreed it was probably time, and nobody had been a bigger defender than me. I thought the average fan got it mostly wrong, though. He was defined by no longer beating Alabama starting in 2012. For various reasons I didn't think that was such a knock, and I recognize that zebras blatantly took the 2014 game away from LSU, which would've gone a long way toward buying some goodwill.
IMO the correct thing to ding him for was the Alabama Hangover. In the final seasons there were too many instances of good LSU teams that hinged their entire reason for being on beating Alabama, and when that didn't happen, they folded. i.e., why he needed to be let go, imo, was not for losing to the Gumps, but rather for losing too many times to Ole Miss and Arkansas which came after. No way those LSU teams should've lost to those other teams, and no doubt in my mind that they packed it in after Alabama and went through the motions until they destroyed some hopeful bowl opponent. He had lost his ability to motivate the team post-Bama, and his 10/11-win seasons became 8/9 win seasons unnecessarily.
Today's average LSU fan, I think, sees Bama the same way Texas sees OU. It's not analogous, imo, and I think admin finally arrived at (probably) the right conclusion, for the wrong reasons.