OT: Great Les Miles Quotes
Just stumbled across this on the Twitter. Some really great ones in here.
September 26th, 2016 at 2:51 PM ^
in the upper quadrant of speed." Lol
September 26th, 2016 at 5:43 PM ^
Holy hell this is a funny read. Well worth it. He's kind of a cross between Ricky Bobby and Yogi Berra.
September 27th, 2016 at 5:38 AM ^
cheerleader clipped me, nice.
September 26th, 2016 at 2:52 PM ^
Also this. http://detne.ws/2dwIbI6
September 26th, 2016 at 2:53 PM ^
someone may owe Mgoteacher an apology.
September 26th, 2016 at 2:52 PM ^
"It was miserable, I hated it. But it was great fun."
Sounds like every family road trip in the history of ever.
September 26th, 2016 at 3:06 PM ^
Mine are always 2 outta 3.
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.
September 26th, 2016 at 2:58 PM ^
If you say "not to be a dick" you're probably being a dick and you know it.
September 26th, 2016 at 3:59 PM ^
Do or do not. There is no try.
September 26th, 2016 at 3:05 PM ^
Some of us try hard to be the biggest Dicks possible.
September 26th, 2016 at 3:44 PM ^
One could argue it's much better than trying your biggest to have a hard dick.
September 26th, 2016 at 3:05 PM ^
Maybe, but at least I'm self aware.
I thought all of those quotes sucked and the post was dumb and a complete waste of my time.
September 26th, 2016 at 3:28 PM ^
I think saying that you're not trying to be a d*ck and then proceeding to be one is the exact opposite of self-aware
September 26th, 2016 at 3:50 PM ^
Not really, as my hand was forced to share my true feelings on the matter. That, and apparently you've missed the subtle dry humor.
September 26th, 2016 at 5:03 PM ^
The more likely situation is that you're not very funny and you're actually kind of a dick. Being aware of your dickishness actually makes it worse.
September 27th, 2016 at 9:25 AM ^
Thank you for policing the board as you do. You're a modern day internet hero and an amazing assesor of personalities.
September 27th, 2016 at 3:28 AM ^
Your hand was forced to click on the thread and comment your displeasure. Mmmkay.
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September 26th, 2016 at 4:12 PM ^
I don't think you're fully self aware.
September 26th, 2016 at 4:31 PM ^
Now you're wasting our time. All evens out.
September 27th, 2016 at 10:11 AM ^
A damn strong team. That was all Bo.
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.
September 26th, 2016 at 3:08 PM ^
Les is classic
September 26th, 2016 at 3:09 PM ^
but then again who is?
September 26th, 2016 at 6:03 PM ^
Yogi Berra?
EDIT: I guess technically even Yogi Berra is not currently like he was, since he's dead. So maybe it's fair to say no one is currently like Yogi Berra was, even Yogi Berra.
September 26th, 2016 at 3:09 PM ^
Ever!
"I'm prepared for Ar-Kansas"
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.
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.
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.
September 26th, 2016 at 5:51 PM ^
Tulane would be an even better fit. They recently built a new stadium and that's a program that should be much better with all the talent in their state.
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.
September 27th, 2016 at 9:32 AM ^
If Les wants to keep coaching, it will be as the HC of a P5 program or in the NFL.
Like you said, he's won a lot of damn games. PSU, ND, Baylor, and USC would be smart to take a run at him.
September 27th, 2016 at 10:07 AM ^
Les Miles is turning 63 this November. I can't see any of those programs going after a guy that old.
September 27th, 2016 at 11:17 AM ^
He's a young 63. Wasn't Spurrier about that age when he took the SC job?
September 28th, 2016 at 1:13 PM ^
Spurrier was 60 when took the SC job, and his performance there was nowhere near what he did at UF.
At UF he won 81.6% of his games. At SC he only won 63.7%.
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."
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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September 26th, 2016 at 4:55 PM ^
Because you don't want to live in a van down by the river.
September 28th, 2016 at 3:47 PM ^
Calling out first team all-American and team MVP Rod Payne ... that's pretty strong work right there by Les.
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."
September 26th, 2016 at 3:56 PM ^
may not make it the year. I don't know what Oregon saw of him that convinced them that he was the right hire for that job. A d-line coach? Maybe. But not a coordinator at a high-level program.
September 26th, 2016 at 9:00 PM ^
One word: recruiting.
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September 26th, 2016 at 11:15 PM ^
He recruited well at Michigan because he sold us well. He's not a killer recruiter because he's Hoke.
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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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September 27th, 2016 at 9:16 AM ^
This, if a big program hired him as a DL coach and recruiting coordinator I'd say that is a home run hire. But as a HC or DC that is a stretch to me.
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.
September 26th, 2016 at 7:09 PM ^
Boy what I wouldn't give to have a baton twirler hit on me
September 26th, 2016 at 4:14 PM ^
the reference to a stiff dew.