OT: Les Miles on twitter

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Twitter = insight into all manner of medical / academic / psychological phenomena. 

Thank you for another intriguing moment in the life of "The Mad Hatter". 

He may be a bit crazy but you can't say he isn't entertaining.

It has to be. Pretty funny way to poke fun at the guy asking the question actually.

I love Les Miles. 

I try to hate the guy, but I just can't.

That is a classic right there.

I know this board had a mild disliking for him but he just made made my day. That was definitely not coaches talk.

is flipping great. Hah!

= fun for the whole family

Les Miles might just be the most entertaining coach in college football. He is to me.

Love the guy. Glad he's not our coach doing and being so wacky but he really fits in well in Louisiana. Anyone who's ever been down there knows that state is full of interesting characters and it appears that they have been rubbing off on him over the years.

How can anyone hate the guy? Assuming Bacon's account was correct, Miles is a diehard Michigan guy and would have been our coach had certain people at Michigan not been complete douche bags. If there is anyone I dislike, it's Carr, that arrogant prick.

Holy shit. 

I'm with you guys, I've never disliked Les Miles and always thought he was highly entertaining and unique.

"Do what you want!"

Anyone else notice that Les Miles' accent has gradually morphed into some kind of southern-midwestern hybrid hillbilly drawl? 

I stared in wonder until the second viewing, not quite convinced it was a joke.  Fantastically executed.  I'm going to begin a diet of straight  Zoysiagrass C4.

He is one nutty fucker.

How can someone hate a guy who eats grass on national tv?

"I dont read books":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3R4IrVjJLQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

That was awesome! Ill bet there will be no more questions with the word tweet in it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7rYywMY6oE&feature=related

Don't really know how to embed, but it's about a year old and pretty good. Some old guy asked him what it's like to be interviewed by a "sweet like thing like Erin Andrews"

@ATLWolverine

Carr is arrogant and, at times, can be quite a prick.

Have you ever seen him in interviews? I have, many many times. He came off so smug/pretentious he made the most arrogant suckeye fan look humble and nice. I used to cringe when he was interviewed at half time during games and during the post game conferences. He talked down to people. Talked to people like they were all idiots and he was THE GREAT Lloyd Carr. I remember one interview in particular when the reporter (at half time) asked him a legit question about a knuckle head call on Carr's part, and Carr looked at him like he was going to stab him to death, sneered and walked off. His demeanor reminds me of Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life.

As far as what he did for this program? Well, if what Bacon said in his book is true, he brought in RR only to sabotage him/stab him in the back and set the program back for three years. Not to mention that he competely sabotaged the Les Miles hire, Carr and Martin. Stay classy Lloyd.

As far as his coaching, I never found him to be a great coach. With all the talent that Michigan recruited year in and year out, we ought to have been competing for NC at least every other year. Instead, we underachieved relative to the talent we had. Carr was good at recruiting, and surrounded himself with some talented coaches/recruiters, but as far as his coaching goes, he reminds me a lot of Mack Brown of Texas. Like Mack, Carr had a plethora of talent at his disposal but severly underachieved with it. The share of a national championship in '97 was nice (it was my sophmore year) but with a top 5/top 10 class every year, the talent was there for a great coach to be in the hunt for a NC on a continual basis (Tressel achieved that at OSU. I have lost all respect for Tressel, but he is a great coach, unlike Carr).

By way of tweet. That is just too damn good.

WHoopdie doo...so he is in the college football hall of fame. That makes him great? The college football hall of fame = hall of great to hall of pretty good. Bear Bryant was great. Barry Switzer was great. Frank Leahy was great. Yost was great. Tom Osborne was a great coach. I would not put Carr in the same group as these guys, and others. He is not even close. Just because he is in the college football hall of the greatest to the pretty good does not make him great.

I think A Beautiful Mind is based on Les Miles' life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9oMeOf8Xx4&feature=related

@Reader 71

If you really think that Carr is a better coach than Tressel than you are most likely in the delusional-Michigan-fan-I-have-my-blinders-on minority group (I would wager to say that most professionals/commentators/announcers, when asked to give their sincere opinion (off the record) would tell you that Tressel was significantly better). Don't get me wrong, I lost pretty much asll respect for Tressel as a person when it came out that he was lying/rigging raffles, etc., but as a coach he is far superior than Carr. You can see that in his: wining percentage, Big 10 Championships, wins over Michigan, NC runs, the amount of players that he developed and put in the NFL, etc. To say that Tressel won only because he cheated is, quite frankly, total BS. It sounds like sour grapes from a fan from the opposing team. The fact that Tressel did lied to the NCAA about tat-gate has nothing to do with his recruiting abilities, his play calling on the field, his ability to develop high school talent into NFL caliber talent. The bottom line is that Tressel was hell of a recruiter (he owned Ohio. Before Tressel, Michigan used to pluck players like Woodson out of Ohio), he brought in top notch high school talent, he then developed and utilized that talent, and along the way collected a lot of Ws, and then sent that talent on to the NFL. So he did not report that some of his players got free tatoos. That has nothing to do with making calls on the field (God, how many times was Carr outcoached by Tressel. He completely owned us) and developing players. Carr had so many top level recruits that ended up mediocre or complete busts because he failed to develop them adequately, especially towards the end of his tenure. The loss to App State, among other sub-par performances and losses, shows how out of touch with reality Carr was. Carr was able to recruit top talent but could not develop that talent. He, along with Mack Brown, is one of the most undeperfoming coaches (relative to the talent he had). Unlike Carr, Tressel was able to bring in top high school players, develop them and, at least, get to title games/BCS bowls.  As for Carr's coaching, God I remember watching games with my buddies and being able to predict his run-run-pass (every now and then throw in the double reverse) play calling. Carr's offenses were boring vanilla, predictable. The only reason why we won in '97 was because of that beast defense which, incidentally, Mattison helped to put together.

You are right, Lloyd did some good things at Michigan and outside of the university. He really was a chearleader for Mott's, which was pretty awesome, and was generous with donating, but the point is he did come off quite arrogant especially when interacting with the media. He had this I-am-better-than-you-bravado, especially with the media. In many instances, he was right down mean. I am not saying that the media does not always deserve a snark remark/silent treatment but, on at least several occasions, Carr came off right-down disrespectful/mean. I remember watching a Michigan game with my law school buddies (none of them went to U of M and none really followed Big 10 football) and I remember, following his half-time interaction/belittling of the reporter, my friend turning to me and saying "wow, your coach is kind of a jerk". Another time we were watching a game, which Michigan happened to lose, and after the game Carr totally blew off the other coach. When you are a coach at a major university you have to act with respect and dignity when interacting with members of the media and other coaches. I am sorry. That is part of the job. You are the spokesperson for the team. I think for most part Carr was probably respectful with regard to other coaches but I know that he was a jerk with the media (other than, maybe, Jim Brandstatter) especially when pushed on controversial topics, or knuckle head calls he and/or his staff made, etc.. People have their not so good days every now and then but Carr was consistently Mr. Henry F. Potter. With Brandstatter who threw him softballs and compliments, he was very nice, but other than that he came of bad. Ohh, and Bacon's Three And Out certainly did NOT improve my view of Carr. He sabotaged Les Miles from coming to Michigan (for whatever personal reason), then he brough in RR only to undermine him (the mass exodus of players which Carr encouraged). Instead of helping RR to transition to Michigan, etc.

I have spent the better half of my day thus far watching Les Miles youtube videos. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWE5SJuMSlo