re: Can someone give an example of Miles poor game management

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No, please do.

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I'm trying to understand why you're limiting this to time screw-ups prior to 2008, and I figure its probably because with so many since 2008, its hard to remember all the ones prior to 2008. But, as I said, Auburn 2007, as has been discussed, is an obvious example. But the perfect example, particularly in light of last weekend, is the 2005 Tennessee game. And before you get your panties in a wad, I'm not talking about the timeout after the interception, which although it was high comedy, wasn't relevant to the outcome of the game. I'm talking about right before halftime when the clock was running down after we completed a pass in the field of play. Russell was looking to the sideline for what to do. Half the staff was signaling clock the ball, which would have made sense. Unfortunately, at the same time, members of the field goal unit were running on the field. Now, Russell, who's admittedly no genius, doesn't know what to do because there are about 17 or 18 people on the field, so he can't really spike it. So the clock runs out and we get no points, which in a game that went into overtime is kind of big. What made this even worse, and is particularly relevant to the cluster**** that happened at the end of the Ole Miss game, is that some of the field goal unit was running in from around the 30, and other members of the unit were running in from around midfield; which meant with the clock running down, our staff didn't even have our entire field goal unit standing together ready to run out on the field. Sound familiar. Also, in something eerily familiar, at the half time interview, Miles completely threw Russell under the bus and blamed the screw-up on him, when it was mostly, if not entirely, on him and his staff. Some things, apparently, never change.