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2007: The inside story of the greatest season in college football history
Posted on 7/26/17 at 9:34 am
Posted on 7/26/17 at 9:34 am
Good read from Spencer Hall at SB Nation.
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Hello. This is a project all about the 2007 college football season, the wildest season ever. We've included dozens of interviews, stories, and other fun stuff in this package (take a look around!), but first, let's talk about Les Miles. Maybe the problem with every other team in 2007 was this: they insisted that things make sense, while Les Miles and LSU never did. In a season of gambles and black swans, Miles was wearing a ghillie suit at the roulette table. It’s not that he had planned it that way, mind you. It’s just what he always wore, and one day, the perfect moment would come along for the outfit. Consider that LSU might have had another unfair advantage from the start: being three teams at once. One was the LSU that destroyed Mississippi State and Virginia Tech to start the season, a physically superior crew of crowbar-wielding sprinters and trench monsters so frightening, they scared poor Michael Henig of Mississippi State into throwing six interceptions in a single game.* *Full disclosure: by the time he threw his fifth, everyone watching wanted him to throw six, because...well, his public failure had come full circle to a kind of valiant achievement, hadn’t it?
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Posted on 7/26/17 at 9:51 am to JBeam
Love it. Thanks for posting. My favorite part...
re: "have a great day" speach...
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He had told ESPN to kiss his arse and made ESPN show it live on ESPN.
re: "have a great day" speach...
Posted on 7/26/17 at 9:53 am to JBeam
Cant think of that season opener without thinking of this:
Posted on 7/26/17 at 9:54 am to JBeam
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When Miles was done with his speech to a room of baffled and bemused reporters, he appeared again exactly where and when he was supposed to appear. He had told ESPN to kiss his arse and made ESPN show it live on ESPN. He proclaimed in what was suddenly the thickest of Ohio accents that he had a "damn strong football team."
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Miles punctuated his speech with the most truculent "have a great day" ever. Later, after the national championship and grown men from the Bayou running naked down Bourbon Street, the Tigers would put the phrase on the back of their equipment truck, so the whole world could kiss their gear’s arse as it rolled down the highway.
Damn I miss that crazy SOB.
LSU GOAT! 
Posted on 7/26/17 at 9:57 am to JBeam
Great read! 
I'm even more pumped for the season now. Let's Geaux!
I'm even more pumped for the season now. Let's Geaux!
Posted on 7/26/17 at 9:57 am to S
He would have been kicked out of the game for that hit, now. I get what they're doing with the rules, but great moments like that in history will start to fade. (And yes, it's great because he knocked a guy's helmet out while protecting our QB.)
Posted on 7/26/17 at 10:28 am to JBeam
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In a season of gambles and black swans, Miles was wearing a ghillie suit at the roulette table
Posted on 7/26/17 at 10:56 am to JBeam
That was a fun and crazy season.
Posted on 7/26/17 at 11:11 am to TexasTiger89
rewatching the "have a great day" speech, man that was awesome.
Les walks off and Skip is sitting their laughing, then the crowd asks the chancellor if he wants to answer questions since Miles told them "there will be no questions" and he stands up and says "what he said" and they all walk off.
It really was a big F U to ESPN.
Les walks off and Skip is sitting their laughing, then the crowd asks the chancellor if he wants to answer questions since Miles told them "there will be no questions" and he stands up and says "what he said" and they all walk off.
It really was a big F U to ESPN.
Posted on 7/26/17 at 11:15 am to JBeam
We were easily the most talented team in the country that season. Worked out in the end but was frustrating to watch.
This post was edited on 7/26/17 at 11:16 am
Posted on 7/26/17 at 11:29 am to JBeam
For a Florida fan, Spencer loves him some LSU and Les Miles.
Posted on 7/26/17 at 12:01 pm to JBeam
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peak example was running back Jacob Hester. With a corps of fearsome locals, LSU’s leading rusher would be a fullback with male pattern baldness at the age of 22.
L-O-L
Posted on 7/26/17 at 12:48 pm to Sampson
Head on over to SB Nation.com they've got a ton of articles about the 2007 season that are making me think back to then
Posted on 7/26/17 at 12:56 pm to JBeam
I think he had some mistakes in that article. Was a good read besides the few missayings
Posted on 7/26/17 at 12:57 pm to jrodLSUke
and grown men from the Bayou running naked down Bourbon Street,
---Typical not-from-here Commentary about how we celebrate big victories. Nobody from LA does this stuff. I remember they said N.O. would have riots if the Saints won the Superbowl. Didn't happen. We know how to party unlike Northerners who turn over police cars to "celebrate" SB or World Series wins.
---Typical not-from-here Commentary about how we celebrate big victories. Nobody from LA does this stuff. I remember they said N.O. would have riots if the Saints won the Superbowl. Didn't happen. We know how to party unlike Northerners who turn over police cars to "celebrate" SB or World Series wins.
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Posted on 7/26/17 at 1:33 pm to JBeam
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Nov. 23: Les Miles tops LSU’s first triple OT loss as No. 1 by losing in triple OT at home as No. 1 to unranked Arkansas, whose head coach, Houston Nutt, leaves three days later for Ole Miss, where he replaces Ed Orgeron, who eventually replaces ... Les Miles. The Tigers are undefeated in regulation.
Posted on 7/26/17 at 1:46 pm to JBeam
Check out this video
it shows all the upsets throughout the year. I don't think we will ever see anything quite like 2007 ever again
it shows all the upsets throughout the year. I don't think we will ever see anything quite like 2007 ever again
Posted on 7/26/17 at 6:39 pm to LSUButt
Pussification of football.
Posted on 7/26/17 at 9:13 pm to My2ndFavCivilNgineer
awesome.
ULM- 21 Bama-14
Man what a crazy season.
ULM- 21 Bama-14
Man what a crazy season.
Posted on 7/26/17 at 9:47 pm to My2ndFavCivilNgineer
Thanks I just spent 30 minutes watching that. Awesome.
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