| FTBL Miles getting reamed by Fox

[Guest]

..and so it begins :lol:

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.

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.

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.

There's plenty more :lol:

 

[bear facts]

..and so it begins :lol:

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.

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.

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.

There's plenty more :lol:

Thanks for the read. Yep, the media sure is a fickled bunch, ain't they?

Honestly, if Les(s) knows what's good for him, he should jump all over the Michigan opening if the school offers him the position.

I don't ever see his stock being this high again should he remain coaching in the SEC. I know I have made this reference before, but if Miles stays at LSU, he will end up with a legacy like Mike Archer's.

 

[bamahd3881]

Funny stuff! There goes the Michigan job.

 

[Roll Tide Rev]

I can't stand the media....

 

[It Takes Eleven]

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.

The aftermath of LSU's narrow win over Auburn demonstrated, once again, that human beings generally lack the courage to criticize victors, and the same courage to praise losers. Les Miles' lucky escape in that two-Tiger tilt shielded him from an onslaught of outrage, even though the facts of the situation revealed — for all the world to see — that Miles just doesn't have a clue when it comes to late-game strategy. Many observers said that LSU defeated Auburn in spite of Miles' best efforts to lose the game.

Well, after this Arkansas debacle, the emperor in Baton Rouge finally has no clothes … and everyone can see as much.

He criticizes that coaches are only criticized in losses and glaring weaknesses are ignored in victory, yet he's doing the very same thing.

Courageous, indeed.

RTR,

Tim

 

[Guest]

I can't stand the media....

As much as I agree, they actually hit the head of the nail with this one. LSU fans seem to agree as well.

 

[Referee]

Michigan is one of the most coveted jobs and he would be a natural there. I just don't know if he wants to go through the entire selection process and it will be extensive...

 

[BamaHeat]

At least that media person tells it like it is!