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LSU would be nuts': College coaches chime in on the Les Miles reports
Posted on 11/24/15 at 10:24 am
Posted on 11/24/15 at 10:24 am
Posted on 11/24/15 at 10:27 am to BooDreaux
I expected college football coaches to applaud the LSU administration for forcing out the head football coach.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 10:28 am to BooDreaux
Click-bait title. Everyone else surveyed had a more measured response. Wonder if that same "SEC Assistant" is the guy that chimed in how easy we were to scheme against in preaseason.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 10:28 am to BooDreaux
Yeah. Let's keep a .400 win percentage in November rolling.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 10:29 am to BooDreaux
none of them are head coaches. 1 sec asst. the rest a bunch of no ones. What a stupid article, the media is just worthless nowadays
Posted on 11/24/15 at 10:30 am to BooDreaux
We're in year 11 with Miles and we're still a completely unprepared team. We're still having clock management/time out issues. We still refuse to attack defenses at their weakness. We still don't have the depth built to sustain "down" years. There's been a steady decline the last 3 seasons. I don't really give a frick what the other shitty coaches think.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 10:30 am to White Tiger
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Yeah. Let's keep a .400 win percentage in November rolling.
LOL! Yeah because carving out a single month helps your shitty point.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 10:31 am to nofear67
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LOL! Yeah because carving out a single month helps your shitty point.
Why doesn't it? November is the most important month in college football. No one gives a frick if you're rolling Eastern Michigan in October.
This post was edited on 11/24/15 at 10:32 am
Posted on 11/24/15 at 10:32 am to BooDreaux
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"I think LSU would be nuts to make that move right now. I mean geez, how many games does the guy have to win? When we hear about a prospect in Louisiana liking our program, our first question is always, 'Do Les Miles and his staff want this kid?' Because we all know prying one of their hometown guys from them is nearly impossible." -- Long-time SEC assistant
Of course other SEC coaches are going to say stuff like that. They don't want to lose any opponent that's so easy to outcoach.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 10:33 am to BooDreaux
Notice they'll all anonymous.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 10:34 am to BooDreaux
Do people not get it?? Yes, he was good, yes he one a championship, but now, his stubborn arse attitude and unwillingness to adapt and change along with a very BLATANT decline over four years is the reason this is happening.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 10:45 am to BooDreaux
Saban criticized Alabama for firing Mike Shula before accepting the job.
It is standard company line for coaches to criticize the firing of other coaches.
It is standard company line for coaches to criticize the firing of other coaches.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 10:54 am to BooDreaux
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"There is no such thing as job security in this business. The guy has national and SEC Championships, recruits at a high level and is one of the most popular coaches in the country. Look at what they (LSU) have accomplished with him there. It would be absurd to get rid of him right now. So what they lost a few games. This is football--it happens. I hate the amount of turnover we have in this profession. It's not fair. Every college coach I know is the hardest worker I know. This is all we do. It's not fair that families have to constantly relocate, sell our houses, find new schools for our kids....
Wahhhhhhhhh
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What other profession does this happen to?
How many other professions gets paid the amount of money y'all get paid?
This post was edited on 11/24/15 at 10:54 am
Posted on 11/24/15 at 10:55 am to maine82
lol...not fair...as you are making $4.5 million a year. I feel so sorry for you.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 11:04 am to Ritual76
If you make the right hire and LSU wins nothing else matters. Case in point:
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Bottom line: you cannot make these decisions based upon what other head coaches say in public and what media personalities think is fair.
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Over the past seven days it has been about as ugly as it gets in the papers and on the local airwaves after the slippery, slimy Saban slithered off to Tuscaloosa last Wednesday to accept an eight-year, $32 million deal to coach Alabama. The announcement came two weeks after he emphatically told South Florida reporters in a news conference that, "I'm not going to be the Alabama coach." It became as bold-faced a lie as any football coach has ever uttered with videotape rolling and pens poised to record his every word. It has since earned him the moniker in these parts as Nick Satan, liar and loser.
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Among the most appalled was Don Shula, who's son Mike was fired as Alabama's head coach after the 2006 season, just a year after his 2005 team finished 10-2, followed by 6-6 in '06. Shula, a man who always did his best to take the high road and duck public controversy in 26 honorable seasons as the Dolphins Hall of Fame head coach, couldn't hide his utter contempt for Saban, willingly offering his opinion to every available camera in town. He publicly called Saban a "quitter" and "a failure" and said, "my reaction is that Saban in two years was 15-17. I don't think that will be any great loss."
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And while Shula was a guy who almost always made himself available for comment as one of the game's more accessible head coaches, there's also no question Nick (The Not So Slick) Saban's media relations were mostly a disaster from Day One on the job.
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Saban was able to get away with such foolishness during his days as a head coach at Michigan State and LSU, where the home town press surely was a tad friendlier to the local college football team and far more compliant in going with the program set forth by the martinet in charge. Saban likely will use the same Neanderthal policies at Alabama, where he was greeted like a conquering hero when he showed up to take the job last week.
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Over the last week, I've heard Saban lambasted on the air and in print as a loser, a liar, a bum, a cheat, a wimp, a fraud, a failure, an egomaniac, a hypocrite -- and that was the good stuff. ESPN radio and television talker Dan Le Betard, also a sports columnist for the Miami Herald, wrote that the bottom line on Saban's departure was that he "couldn't impact the pro game with all his genius and all his arrogance and all his condescension and all his coaches and all his self-help infomercial yammering and all of Wayne Huizenga's money. So he fled."
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For two years here, Saban also had babbled incessantly and rather condescendingly about the importance of honor, integrity, loyalty, mental toughness and accountability. How's this for honesty, loyalty and integrity?
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Saban didn't even have the stones to tell his own Dolphins assistants face to face that he was leaving. Instead, he gave them the news by speaker phone.
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Liar and loser seem to be the operative and most appropriate media phrases, save for the Tuscaloosa crowd. Still, a couple of losses to Auburn down the road, and it may apply there, as well. We can only hope.
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Bottom line: you cannot make these decisions based upon what other head coaches say in public and what media personalities think is fair.
Posted on 11/24/15 at 11:07 am to maine82
I think it was Doering who pointed this out...
If go demand a raise 5 min after concluding a good season don't be surprised when they demand a head on a pike 10min after a bad one.
But anyone thinks this is about W-L over any time span, the month of Nov, this season alone, or by the way about just what happens on the field even is participating in self-delusion (it's ok, everybody does at some point) or is just misinformed. Yeah, maybe we're too close to it. But maybe some that think we're "nuts" hasn't looked close enough. Both, or either, are possible.
If go demand a raise 5 min after concluding a good season don't be surprised when they demand a head on a pike 10min after a bad one.
But anyone thinks this is about W-L over any time span, the month of Nov, this season alone, or by the way about just what happens on the field even is participating in self-delusion (it's ok, everybody does at some point) or is just misinformed. Yeah, maybe we're too close to it. But maybe some that think we're "nuts" hasn't looked close enough. Both, or either, are possible.
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