ChuckieWoodson

September 26th, 2016 at 2:54 PM ^

Not to be a dick... but.. which ones did you think were really great?  Maybe it's because Les tries so hard to talk like Bo, that I envision him saying all of these in the same way and it's annoying.

ElBictors

September 26th, 2016 at 3:06 PM ^

I don't know if he's trying to sound like Bo, but Les does have an interesting cadence and tendency to pro-Noun-ce certain words with very -- de-lib-erate -- pause and pronunciation..

So I can also hear him saying these 'great lines' and while he's no Yogi Berra, there are some good ones on that list.

Tuebor

September 26th, 2016 at 3:09 PM ^

Miles won 77% of his games in his 11+ years at LSU. Had a drop off at the end but that is damn impressive, especially considering he did that while playing in the same division as Nick Saban for the last 9+ years.  By comparison the next closest SEC West team was Auburn with a 66% winning percentage over the tenure of Miles career.  Only LSU and Auburn have beaten Saban 3 times since the start of his tenure at Alabama. 

 

I'd have loved to have him back in '07 but by '11 it was clear that Harbaugh was the perfect fit. 

ijohnb

September 26th, 2016 at 3:32 PM ^

was a very good coach for a time.  It would not surprise me to see him as a position coach or a coordinator for a couple of years in the pros.  He doesn't strike me as a guy who is going to go after the next big college football opening and I really don't think the demand is going to be that great for him at his age.  I could see a soft landing spot where he attempted to lift a middling program to some degree of prominance, i.e. Minnesota, Kansas State, Boston College.  He probably has another 5-7 years of coaching in him if he wants. 

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Tuebor

September 26th, 2016 at 5:18 PM ^

I have no idea but I'd imagine that a Sun Belt team would be willing to take him and he can probably have Frank Solich's Ohio level success at a Sun Belt team.  Especially given his recruiting ties to the south after a decade plus in Louisiana. 

Tuebor

September 27th, 2016 at 9:10 AM ^

Yeah, but they have a coach in his first year, will that job be available?  I'd watch what jobs open up out of:

 

ULL, ULM, LATech, Tulane, South Alabama, Southern Miss, SMU, Rice, Texas State, UTSA.

 

If any of those jobs open up and Les still wants to coach, and wouldn't consider it too big a demotion he could do fairly well there.  But who knows, maybe he is done with coaching and is ready to move on to the FFCA with Gruden.

tspoon

September 28th, 2016 at 3:58 PM ^

Not so sure that Spurrier's time at SC(east) is all that instructive as a data point on any part of the rest of the college football world.

 

Here's a good piece from 2010 on South Carolina football in the WSJ (written by a Michigan alum):

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703743504575493794087297692

 

BTW, if you want to get a sense of just how bad it is to be a South Carolina fan, read the last two paragraphs of that article.  Creepy beyond words....

 

**edit: here it is, because that link is behind a paywall for most

>>Gamecock fans even have an explanation for their misery: the Chicken Curse. "I originally wrote that as a joke to show the power of negative thinking," said Doug Nye, the former sports editor of the now-defunct Columbia Record who is credited with popularizing the term. "But nobody read the last paragraph."

There's a feeling in Columbia that the Gamecocks' fortunes are finally changing. The school's baseball team won this year's College World Series, the school's first national title in a men's sport. And Mr. Spurrier has a fearsome running back, freshman Marcus Lattimore.

But South Carolina has seen this movie before. "I keep thinking he's going to break his leg," says Mr. Conroy, "because of the Chicken Curse."

 

Gitback

September 26th, 2016 at 3:41 PM ^

As a manager during his time here as the O-Line coach I got to see more than A few classic Coach Miles moments.

One was when our O-Line came walking off the field during practice after a particularly lazy set of downs. He comes running up to the entire group, lifts his t-shirt up, starts rubbing his nipples with his fingertips and yells "Hey! Guess what boys?! I could be at the beach! I could be at the beach!"

The other one was during a game, a lackluster three and out had just occurred and the lineman come trotting off the field. Les calmly walks up to our center and just sort of nonchalantly says "hey... Rod Payne... Do me a favor son..." Then he EXPLODES into a pantomimed blocking stance and screams "BLOCK SOMEBODY!!!"




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Esterhaus

September 26th, 2016 at 3:44 PM ^

It isn't worth a separate thread. Some Brady Hoke-isms from this past weekend's Oregon loss to Colorado.

"I didn't think this was a quarterback we needed to tackle and spy with," Brady Hoke admitted postgame. "But we didn't tackle well."

"We've got to do a better job getting off blocks, rush lanes are part of it, and I need to do a better job coaching," Hoke said.

"Right now we need to find ways to get a little more pressure on the quarterback while keeping him contained."

"You just go back to work, there's no magic pill, but there is a work ethic that you want to have. As a defense, there's a way you want t play, and at times we are doing that. Then there are too many times when we're not."

http://oregon.247sports.com/Article/Brady-Hoke-says-theres-no-magic-pill-to-fix-Oregons-issues-47766878

 

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Swazi

September 27th, 2016 at 3:25 AM ^

I doubt he will be a revelation as a DC, but he will get more than one year. That defense was an absolute train wreck for a few years at least before Hoke got there.




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LSAClassOf2000

September 26th, 2016 at 4:10 PM ^

I was not nicked. I came up gingerly, but kinda walked it off and avoided a baton twirler as I got to the bench

I am going to have to find some way to work this into an incident / accident form, if I should ever have to fill one out.