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re: Wright Thompson: The Obsession of Les Miles
Posted on 11/14/12 at 8:56 pm to thekid
Posted on 11/14/12 at 8:56 pm to thekid
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8-8 vs top 5 teams at LSU...
I love how .500 against the top 5 isn't good enough for some people. It'd be one thing if he was 1-1, but damn, sixteen games against top 5 teams in seven years...
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Posted on 11/14/12 at 9:01 pm to PoliticLA
Wow, what a great article...
I think it is an excellent explanation of how important those "risky" calls are to the confidence and attitude of the team...
All the negative rantards love to call Miles an idiot when they don't work but give him no credit for when they do work...how many games did those plays help us win?
When he wins its because of superior talent and our locked up Louisiana recruits and he is lucky...it drives me crazy how idiotic these arguments are...
miles is a great coach, top 5 in the country, and if you can't see that you have no knowledge of college football...but if you need proof just look at his record...
I think it is an excellent explanation of how important those "risky" calls are to the confidence and attitude of the team...
All the negative rantards love to call Miles an idiot when they don't work but give him no credit for when they do work...how many games did those plays help us win?
When he wins its because of superior talent and our locked up Louisiana recruits and he is lucky...it drives me crazy how idiotic these arguments are...
miles is a great coach, top 5 in the country, and if you can't see that you have no knowledge of college football...but if you need proof just look at his record...
Posted on 11/14/12 at 10:23 pm to thekid
I read the article itself and I do no believe my eyes. CLM out on the field with a whistle in hand in shorts in front of two LSU players? I thought he doesn't COACH players?! I'm confuse. Isn't he just an administrator ? What this about breaking down plays by plays? He's not an X and O guys according to the rantard experts.
Posted on 11/14/12 at 10:41 pm to jdg91878
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frick ESPN and their fricking trolling piece. Nothing about how bama didn't even deserve to be playing in the mulligan game. Let's write a story on that; how okie ST got fricked and won their conference and political bullshite got the Gump cheating bastards in that game.
all gottdamned day
Posted on 11/14/12 at 10:53 pm to BayouFann
Very good article.
Posted on 11/15/12 at 2:15 am to PoliticLA
"The pressure of a major college football program is well-known for all it destroys, leaving broken families, burned-out coaches and a textbook worth of neuroses and paranoia. But it creates something too. In response to the threat, and as a protection from it, a bubble forms. A separate and safe place, the eye of a storm. A coach survives the rise and fall by trying to create a world free of emotional tides. I read Miles the same list I read his wife: "1, 1, 3, 5, 5, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 1."
"Those were really exciting games," he says. "Those were fun games to play. The bad news is, Where's the championship? You just played a great team, right? You didn't win anything but the right to play another great team." "
Miles gets it.
"Those were really exciting games," he says. "Those were fun games to play. The bad news is, Where's the championship? You just played a great team, right? You didn't win anything but the right to play another great team." "
Miles gets it.
Posted on 11/15/12 at 8:31 am to stho381
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Miles gets it.
I believe he does. I can get real upset with the man after losses. Especially 1/9 and this past Alabama game. But, he knows what he's doing , and he is a good and honorable man. I'd take him over Little Nicky.
Posted on 11/15/12 at 8:39 am to PoliticLA
Wright Thompson is a fantastic writer, and narrator for that matter.
With that said, I wish Bobby and T-Bob would jump in the lake.
With that said, I wish Bobby and T-Bob would jump in the lake.
Posted on 11/15/12 at 8:47 am to PoliticLA
Just read it, real nice article... You dont think about the pressure coaches like this are under and who can handle it... really cool stuff this.
Posted on 11/15/12 at 9:02 am to stho381
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"Those were really exciting games," he says. "Those were fun games to play. The bad news is, Where's the championship? You just played a great team, right? You didn't win anything but the right to play another great team." "
Miles gets it.
And this is also a major distinction between the standards Miles has to meet to be considered "great", and the standards Saban has to meet.
Saban doesn't have to worry about "winning for the right to play another great team". Miles does. Saban can lose his biggest home games EVERY SEASON, and still get another shot, or have the media prop him up for another chance (see 2011 and 2012).
Miles also has the standard of having to beat top teams from the SEC East as well. Saban doesn't have to worry about that. Saban has to prep for ONE big game a season, and if he loses it, no big deal. Miles has to prep for 3-5 big games a season, and faces possible elimination with a loss to any of them. IF Miles loses, he has to wait his turn for others to lose out. If Saban loses, he simply gets automatic consideration, you know, because he's Saban.
You frickers here that bash Miles have no clue what you have, and on top of that, indirectly support the double standard he has to live by.
Posted on 11/15/12 at 9:07 am to EZE Tiger Fan
Great article, would read again. I am starting to like the things Wright Thompson does. Ghost of Ole Miss was a good film.
Posted on 11/15/12 at 9:42 am to DanglingFury
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And Fury, I thought I was your favorite writer. And I'll be drunk at your tailgate this weekend.
sweet, we've become a haven for writers this year apparently.
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I loved meeting him because I'm a Wright fanboy, but I thought he was a little stuck on himself. Maybe he held it against me, that the first thing I said to him was "are you trying to look like Wright Thompson for Halloween?"
He said "yeah," then "big leagued" me.
because you didn't have the chest to ask him about Sri Lanka like i and apparently Miles did. great minds....which btw you would've known about him if you would just join twitter already.
Posted on 11/15/12 at 10:24 am to PoliticLA
wow, great read, thanks for posting.
Miles stands in shoes that I am sure most, even all of his critics are incapable of filling. Those, Saban included, who understand these shoes, have much respect for him as a man and a coach. I'm glad he is the coach at LSU. I can think of a long list of coaches I'm glad LSU doesn't have.
Miles stands in shoes that I am sure most, even all of his critics are incapable of filling. Those, Saban included, who understand these shoes, have much respect for him as a man and a coach. I'm glad he is the coach at LSU. I can think of a long list of coaches I'm glad LSU doesn't have.
Posted on 11/15/12 at 10:36 am to PoliticLA
Good read, thanks
Posted on 11/16/12 at 9:26 am to PoliticLA
Just got around to reading this...I bet Wright Thompson had a good time with Les. This is just fricking hilarious:
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Normally when Miles watches football, which happens only during LSU's bye week, he's hilarious, jumping up and stomping toward the television to scream at officials, throwing an imaginary flag or yelling at fellow coaches to go for it on fourth down. As Bob Stoops rants at a ref on this rare free Saturday, Miles grins and says, "Give 'em hell, Bob!"
Posted on 11/16/12 at 9:34 am to El Eh Shu
I bet Miles would be cool as shite to have a beer with and watch a game.
Posted on 11/16/12 at 9:49 am to PoliticLA
Thanks for posting that. I wish everyone who is a Tiger Fan would realize how special this man is. 
Posted on 11/16/12 at 9:50 am to jdg91878
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frick ESPN and their fricking trolling piece. Nothing about how bama didn't even deserve to be playing in the mulligan game. Let's write a story on that; how okie ST got fricked and won their conference and political bullshite got the Gump cheating bastards in that game.
The BCS did what it was designed to do. It put the two best teams in the championship game. Do you really think that Okie St was better than Bama? If you do you don't know jack shite about football. Bama was clearly the second best team at the end of the season and they were clearly the best team after the NCG.
Second, explain how Bama cheated?
Posted on 11/16/12 at 9:53 am to LsuTool
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I bet Miles would be cool as shite to have a beer with and watch a game.
Yep, and if it was Saban, I'd probably have to leave the room or stomp his pompous backside into the ground.
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