re: Wright Thompson: The Obsession of Les Miles

I love one of the picture captions:

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Miles is the only coach in SEC history to win 11 games five times in his first seven years.

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And a large portion of LSU "fans" call this guy names and want to fire him. SMH.

In to read later

good article. thanks enjoyed it.

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PoliticLA

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I agree with this. Until clm can beat NS, he will have open wounds that do not heal. The team will have difficulty winning the SEC West let alone the SEC.

That said, clm and LSU got jobbed big time by the CFB ptbs. No way 'bama should have been in that game. How can any of those talking head pundits explain that the game of the century a couple of months earlier did not matter. It was a corrupt beauty contest and the gumps were the predetermined winners if the ptb had anything to say about it. clm was unlucky. He should have had his second NC win or at least played Okie state for it.

His upright character in this case did him no favors when he said he would be honored to play them again. Are you kidding me? Honored to have to beat them twice in one season to be declared champs while the gumps win one and claim all the chips. That is a misplaced sense of honor so far as I can see it.

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...

"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.

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.

Good read, thanks

Thanks for posting that. I wish everyone who is a Tiger Fan would realize how special this man is.

If this was supposed to make me feel better about losing on November 3, it didn't.