re: Do you think Miles ever showed real interest in Michigan job?

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I agree with your opening lines... but the line above is just CRAZY talk. It took a ridiculous amount of luck for us to fall into that BCS-CG. To think that Miles was thinking about the SEC CG is one thing, to think that he was thinking about the BCS CG after 2 losses and BEFORE even playing the SEC CG is borderline retarded.

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You completely misunderstood my post, which looking at it again is actually my fault. I wasn't clear.

Miles was absolutely only focused on the SECCG that morning, that is why he said "ask me AFTER", basically saying, we'll talk about all of this tomorrow but right now I'm focused on getting this team an SEC Championship.

But later that night, with LSU winning and Missou and WVU losing, it immediately became clear that LSU was going to face OSU for the title, and that is when everything changed, imo. He then became totally focused on the BCSNCG, and I believe all communication was cut off by Miles.

Sorry if my original post wasn't clear


I do disagree with your comment that it took a "ridiculous amount of luck" for LSU to get back to #2.

I've posted about this a lot over the years, and the bottom line is, LSU needed Pitt to beat WVU, that was the ONLY real upset we needed, and as soon as Pat White got hurt, it wasn't even be that big of an upset really.

Sure, we needed Missou to lose as well, but just because they were ranked higher than OU didn't make it an upset. OU was actually favored to win that game and had already beaten Missou earlier that year. Everyone knew OU was the better team, and was much more experienced in big games than a Missou program that came from nowhere, as they weren't even ranked until October.

If you look at the rankings, the other teams ahead of us were Georgia, Kansas, and V Tech. Yeah LSU had dropped to #7 after losing to Arkansas, but that was the pollster mentality of dropping a team right after a loss, but we were always going to be able to move up again after the SECCG. Once Missou and WV lost there was never any way that Georgia was going over the SEC Champion, or that Kansas would go over anyone, or that VT would go over us after we beat them by six touchdowns.

Pitt beating WVU was all we needed that was "ridiculously lucky". And in a rivalry game like the back yard brawl, with Lesean McCoy running against an always suspect WVU defense, even that isn't crazy to think that an upset could happen. Especially with all of the pressure on WVU in a game where they were suddenly playing for a shot at the national title. When Pat White went down, I think most people watching that game had a feeling it wasn't Rich Rod's night.