re: Let us talk Les Miles for a second....

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i was U.S. Navy Submarine Force.....and if you "do anything...something" in an emergency you will surely die.

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I'm not going to sully up your service to this country...I'm not familiar with submarine protocols....but from the land of 11B's I can say we were trained to act swiftly, decisively, and to seize the initiative in potentially lethal situations.

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we were trained to act swiftly, decisively

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and somehow you interpreted this as "do something...anything"? I'm guessing you were quickly reassigned to the crew that cuts the grass at the base softball fields...

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You're assuming that any action is a sign of panic...I cant buy this.

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You are asserting that in times of sress ANY action will prove beneficial?
"Do something..........anything" is a coherent plan of action? Come on man. You just keep digging your hole deeper.

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Another good point...I suggested the OT as a proper venue to discuss this topic, but as usual Choctaw's and Gray's need to be "right" overrides any sense of prudency.

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You're the one that started us down this ridiculous rabbit hole.

And color me shocked that you ignored a bunch of posts AGAIN.

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If I jumped off a cliff, would you follow me over the edge dumazz?

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Oh look, another insult. And I didn't, so good job on being doubly irrelevant.

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I made an innocuous reference to the military and your crew went off the deep end in some kind of semantic frenzy.

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Probably because what you said was stupid and was in no way analogous to what the topic is.

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Are you surprised?

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Surprised that you continue to dodge posts, make insults, and post irrelevant crap? No, I'm not surprised.

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I suggested the OT as a proper venue to discuss this topic, but as usual Choctaw's and Gray's need to be "right" overrides any sense of prudency.

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If your motives are so superior, why did you continue along this line?


Let me see if I have a sense of your wisdon:
1. You didn't approve of Miles' hire. But you have managed to live with our disappointment up to a point.
2. You think that Miles would be best served if he had heeded the direction that you and a few others voiced on the Rant.
3. The doctrine of "do something....anything" is a valid course of action.
4. You have no urgency regarding being "right" but you continue the dabate.

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If your motives are so superior,

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What does this even mean?? Wrong connotation.

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Let me see if I have any sense

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FIFY

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wisdon

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The last thing I wisd-on was a camp fire a few weeks back.

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You didn't approve of Miles' hire

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Could have stopped right there.

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You think that Miles would be best served if he had heeded the direction that you and a few others voiced on the Rant.

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I'm not in a position to offer the man advice. Just saying there's always room for improvement.

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The doctrine of "do something....anything" is a valid course of action.

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Let me give you an example even you can understand: You're moving across open ground when suddenly your unit starts taking insurgent fire from all over....people are dying around you....according to your line of thinking....you should just sit down on the ground and analyze the situation....maybe take some time to meditate on the meaning of life.....as opposed to lets say....return fire, look for cover, call in CAS, hit the ground, grab your buddy and run, etc (all of which could be considered collectively as "doing something...anything") I think my course of action in this case might have some validity.

4. Da-bate is something I throw at bass on the river on Saturday mornings.

Come on LNCH...this is weak even by your standards......besides let Gray fight his own battles....he's a big boy.

Stay tuned...I'm getting back to your original question(s).

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tduecen put a beaten dead horse on a line, cast it, and this thread will survive on the 1st page until fall practice

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Its something to do between weekend series..K? Basketball season is over so what's the harm?
No problems!

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Are you telling me we made no adjustments during the year? And you know this for fact? Not to mention the fact that we were blowing the doors off everyone not named Alabama. What ship was there to right when we were averaging 40 points a game?

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We are talking about the 08 Malveto fiasco right?

First off, we weren't averaging 40 pts a game...try 31.
Second, the defense wasn't improving as the season went on. We gave up 50 spots twice in the middle stretch of the season and 31 three straight at the end of the season.
We lost 3 of the last 4 games and 5 of 8....damn near six...with the exception of the Troy miracle.

The only thing that saved the season was blowing out GT in the bowl game. Had we lost the bowl game, the heat on Miles might have been turned up.
A 7-6 season after the 2007 NC would have looked really bad considering there was still considerable talent on that team.

What I don't get is, why not go after a DC when Pelini left. There was time. It wasn't like he quit in the middle of the season.
To that point, I hadn't questioned a single solitary thing Miles had done.