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Miles getting reamed by Fox

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BAMA JAMMA

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Oct 28, 2007
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..and so it begins :biggrin:

http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/story/7482072

LSU's dance with disaster finally led the Tigers over the cliff. In a sport where the averages even out, LSU needed to play above-average football and not allow yet another SEC slugfest to be reduced to a handful of snaps. Sure enough, the averages gained their revenge and the sports gods exacted a measure of brutal justice for an LSU team that consistently failed to maximize its potential.
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Miles is a stand-up individual who does a great job of handling a lot of the duties of a head coach. From this big-picture perspective, the man is a good coach.

However, when championships are there to be won and statements are to be made, Arkansas ambush made one thing perfectly and overwhelmingly clear: Les Miles can't strategize his way out of a paper bag.
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In the aftermath of October's amazing last-second win over Auburn, a firestorm erupted over the way Miles handled that late-game situation. Anyone with a few brain cells knew Miles was enormously lucky to escape with that victory, clinched on a touchdown catch by receiver Demetrius Byrd on a wheel route with one tick left on the clock (three ticks left if the clock had been properly reset, but that was a mere technicality).

But there's a funny thing about victory achieved in spite of bad game management and decision making — it tends to diminish criticism. There were surely tens of thousands of Tigers fans who knew Miles butchered that Auburn scenario a month ago, but still swallowed their comments or reserved judgment (or both) because the home team nevertheless managed to win.
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There's plenty more :biggrin2::BigA:
 
yeowch, no punches pulled in that one.


Again, Miles handles many dimensions of a coach's complete job description with admirable poise and professionalism, but when the matter of late-game management is up for discussion, the LSU coach is Les than merely mediocre — he's absolutely horrible.



Michigan couldn't afford to have Les Miles match headsets with Jim Tressel if it expects to win. The Wolverines will surely be scared by what they saw today, or at least they ought to be.
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Seems now maybe they are seeing that it is Nick Sabans talented players winning in spite of Miles' less than stellar game management.

Michigan couldn't afford to have Les Miles match headsets with Jim Tressel if it expects to win.
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I would match Saban against Tressel. :wink:
 
This Is Yankee Media's Attempt To Keep Miles Away

One thing that the predominantly Yankee sports medium cannot stand is admitting they need a Southerner to solve their football problems.

The second thing they can't stand is admitting they overlooked somebody from the North who went on to success in the South and thus needs to come 'back home' and fire up the faithful.

Hence, Miles obviously has some flaws in Yankee minds. (I'll add that it's funny to me that they never considered those flaws while talking about his dashing and daring approach of 'going for it' on five fourth downs in the Florida game - uh, like he could have done anything else!!).

I happen to think Miles is a Coach Fran-style coach who will flame out when he actually has to put together a team that he recruited and then coach it. He also never understood the politics of the SEC very well, which is why he was reduced to begging the Cotton Bowl after they'd locked us up in 2005.

Sure he has LSU at 9-2 this year. What record do you think recruiter Saban would have with those guys?

I don't think they'd have lost but once at most.

Oh and btw - Houston Nutt's idiotic coaching is what made that an overtime game in the first place. What imbecile starts with the ball close to midfield and 47 seconds left with one time-out....

......and then not only tries, but fails to run the clock out.

If LSU had gotten a flag that enabled a game-winning FG, Nutt would never have made it to the showers before Hawg callers were burning him at the stake inside Red Stick.
 
He seems to be too colorful for michigan, but if michigan wants to start recruiting players of sec caliper then it would be a good hire. Miles can recruit and would more than likely take the entire coaching staff he has now with him. They would likely like a shot to coach at michigan and michigan would look great on a resume.

If I were michigan I'd hire him even though he's made some stupid decisions. Miles would bring speed in the big 10 and the big 10 is seriously lacking in that catagory. Also big 10 games don't usually go to overtime because there is such a drop off between the top 4 and the rest of the conference.

Just an opinion.
 
Oh, but ask any LSU fan and they will tell you how happy they are with the job he has done the last 3 years, what with the only 6 losses,all the bowl wins and top 5 finishes and such. They're perfectly happy with Lester. He's leading them to the promised land, you know.

What was that noise? I think I just heard the window closing.....
 
I thought the whole "I'm the head coach" thing was about the sideline warning? Didn't they say that Coach Miles had wandered all the way down to the 15 yard line? Can the head coach do that, or any assistant coaches? I'm pretty sure the players on the sidelines have to stay much closer to mid field.

Surely y'all don't think he made that statement because of a momentary identity crisis! He had a reason for emphasizing that.
 
Like I've said for the umpteenth time:

Lite football, from Louisiana - Great Talent.....Les Coaching!

Do I have to get permission from Miller Beer to put this in print?
 
Also, we really need to get off Les' back. He's having to play with the hand he was dealt - the leftovers from the Saban era. He lost with Saban's players. We've got to give him a chance to get his own recruits in and see what he can do then (tongue planted firmly in cheek). ********.
 
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