| FTBL Merged threads on Miles, LSU and Michigan

[Tideboy]

Now LSU fans can go back to pretending they love Les Miles.

LOL! That is GOLD!

 

[ACL11190]

Its crazy how LSU fans change so quickly.

Nick Saban leaves Miami.

LSU Fans- Ohhh come back Nick
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Nick Saban accpets Alabama Job.

LSU Fans- He isnt a good coach anyway Les is a way better coach.
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Les Miles looses to Arkansas.

LSU Fans- Les Miles sucks, a Saban team wouldnt have lost that game.
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Nick Saban is rumored to have interest in LSU job.

LSU Fans- We were just kidding about him being a bad coach, we want you back (We are desperate, we dont want a toaster oven as a coach)
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Les Miles stays at LSU ruining the chances of Spurrier or Saban coming.

LSU Fans- Les Miles is the best coach in the country, We won the SEC!! (Damn i really wanted Saban back, oh well i guess we have to stay with this idiot for a few more years, then maybe we can get Spurrier!!)

 

[imported_porkchop]

Its crazy how LSU fans change so quickly.

Nick Saban leaves Miami.

LSU Fans- Ohhh come back Nick
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Nick Saban accpets Alabama Job.

LSU Fans- He isnt a good coach anyway Les is a way better coach.
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Les Miles looses to Arkansas.

LSU Fans- Les Miles sucks, a Saban team wouldnt have lost that game.
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Nick Saban is rumored to have interest in LSU job.

LSU Fans- We were just kidding about him being a bad coach, we want you back (We are desperate, we dont want a toaster oven as a coach)
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Les Miles stays at LSU ruining the chances of Spurrier or Saban coming.

LSU Fans- Les Miles is the best coach in the country, We won the SEC!! (Damn i really wanted Saban back, oh well i guess we have to stay with this idiot for a few more years, then maybe we can get Spurrier!!)

Spurrier will be spending every day at Augusta before they ever get another shot at him. Spurrier has 2 or 3 more years in him at USC and he's done.

 

[rammerjammer]

Spurrier will be spending every day at Augusta before they ever get another shot at him. Spurrier has 2 or 3 more years in him at USC and he's done.
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I agree............5 years at the most.

 

[billfish]

I'm glad he stayed.

That way he can deal with his new F#@!$%g rival in Alabama!

Roll Tide

 

[imatigerfan]

Its too bad that you simply could not take his word at face value, because that is what has to happen now. So do you believe he's committed?

Can you really take any coaches word for what it is? I mean, coaches will say what they need to say. I don't really blame them for it, its just how it is. I don't think Saban is a terrible person for saying he wasn't going to Bama, he just had to do what he needed to do to get the job done. At the same time, I wouldn't trust any coach about what they said about where they were going to coach next year. I'm not even sure I believe Miles.

He left himself wide open at the end of the season. He could have met with the AD and the people at MI and said, "Make it seem like this isn't going to happen because right now my paycheck comes from LSU and I need to win." I wouldn't blame him. I also wouldn't be surprised if he signed a contract next week with LSU, I just don't trust any of them.

 

[bear facts]

Here is a blog entry posted by sports reporter, Terry Foster, of the Detroit News on Sat, Dec 1, 2007 at 2:12 PM.

If TF's comments are true, I can understand how Kirk Herbstreit could be misinformed, particularly if ESPN colleague, Desmond Howard, was feeding him with the same information coming out of Michigan.

A Done Deal Dies

The news that Les Miles is remaining with LSU is shocking to everybody, even some of his closest friends.

I was on the phone with one of Miles' boys Saturday morning and he was telling me some of the names Miles was bringing to Michigan. He sounded excited as ESPN reported this to be a done deal. The details were exciting and it sounded like Michigan was breaking the mode of Bo Schembechler and Lloyd Carr and doing something that would make this an elite program again.

We hung up and he called me back 15 minutes later and said there has been a major snag. LSU had sweetened the offer and he said that Miles had second thoughts. Money was the major factor but there was something else Miles got a bad vibe about.

He knew he was coming to enemy territory. He feared that he would never be embraced by Carr and that he'd be fighting that the entire time he was here. Miles wanted to retain some of the Michigan assistants because he respects their ability. However, he feared that he could not. They were loyal to Carr and he feared divisions within the program before he even got started.

Michigan was offering good money. It did not match the $3 million he will get at LSU but the Wolverines were willing to go as high as $2.4 million to lure him.

When you heard this was a done deal, trust me it was. But a man is allowed to rethink things and change his mind. Even Miles' closest friends were paving the way for him get relearn the community.

In fact a private meeting between me and Miles was being set up after he got to town. That is how close this thing was.

Now Michigan must start from scratch. Let's see how Blue recovers from this shocker.

I can be reached at Terry.Foster@detnews.com or 313-222-1494.

Link

 

[Swamptick]

Its too bad that you simply could not take his word at face value, because that is what has to happen now. So do you believe he's committed?

Can you really take any coaches word for what it is? I mean, coaches will say what they need to say. I don't really blame them for it, its just how it is. I don't think Saban is a terrible person for saying he wasn't going to Bama, he just had to do what he needed to do to get the job done. At the same time, I wouldn't trust any coach about what they said about where they were going to coach next year. I'm not even sure I believe Miles.

He left himself wide open at the end of the season. He could have met with the AD and the people at MI and said, "Make it seem like this isn't going to happen because right now my paycheck comes from LSU and I need to win." I wouldn't blame him. I also wouldn't be surprised if he signed a contract next week with LSU, I just don't trust any of them.

Good post. I agree. The way the things go with most of the sports media coaches are more or less forced to give half truths and lies during the season.