re: Did Miles say he'd be honored to play Alabama again?

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wasn't trying to be funny. I was just stating a fact. 

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Ok, but why did you choose that particular fact when discussing events in the upset win on the road in "The Game of the Century" in which he outcoached the best coach in the country in LSU's only undefeated SEC Championship season in over 50 years.

Why throw out the fact that makes him look silly? If you were trying to be funny, that would be one thing. It was quite a funny moment. But the fact that you automatically go to the one negative from such a historically great night in LSU's history is the reason you're a joke on this board to many

I guess it's obvious from your name why you didn't throw out a fact like he also had to overcome his starting quarterback completely shitting the bed and looking like a freshman dumpster fire again, so he had to turn to his backup QB, who wasn't very good either, and still managed to patiently brawl his way to an upset road win against perhaps the best defense of all time and the best coach in the country.

Yeah, better to go with the trip and fall after the run out of the tunnel entrance that we all love so much as your takeaway fact from the game

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Voters/media screwed Ok State out of the opportunity they deserved (as they showed in beating a quality Stanford team). Prior to their bowl games people didn't expect Florida to beat tOSU in 2006, Texas to beat an all time great 2005 USC team, or tOSU to beat an all time great Miami team in 2002. 

You just can't know unless the games are played and it sucks for Ok State their coach was too young and dumb to understand how to campaign 

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Exactly. It really is a shame.

I've always believed and argued that the BCS was created to ensure that conference bowl tie ins would not prevent the opportunity for the best teams to play each other. LSU and Bama had already played. The BCS system was not needed to provide that matchup.

The system was designed to protect a Big 12 Champion OSU from being stuck in the Fiesta while SEC Champion LSU was tied to the Sugar.

OSU had the #2 offense in the country (better than Oregon), and didn't get a chance to prove their worth against LSU's great D the way Ohio State did against one of the best CFB teams of all time in Miami in 02, VY did against another all time great team in USC in 05, and Florida did in 06 against Ohio State. It truly is a shame.


frick Tracy Wolfson and CBS for asking that question just seconds after the game ended.

I fully believe if Miles had time to consider the ramifications of his answer he would have said something like "That's a long way away, we have several games left against great teams, and there are several great programs around the country that would love to earn the right to play the SEC Champion in a great game like tonight. I'm focused on making sure that the team representing the SEC will be wearing purple and gold and we took a big step toward that goal tonight in a game that I think should be an instant classic. Now we're gonna go play our asses off the next few weeks!! "

Love me some Les Miles, but I really think his spontaneous attempt at a respectful answer to an unfair question kept the door open for Bama, and Saban and ESPN ran through it.

If he coach speaked it instead of talking from the heart in a very emotional moment, OSU is in New Orleans on 1/9 imo. It's the biggest mistake of his LSU career imo bar none.


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