re: All Those Groovy Les Miles Trick Plays

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Great thread


Should add the Early pass to Flynn at Bama in 07


Also was the Copeland rumble down the sideline against Bama in 2014 some sort of fake?? Maybe just a 4th down conversion? I can’t remember exactly but it was badass

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the second onside kick which Brandon LaFell recovered before the last drive and the clock debacle

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This is the best onside I’ve ever seen.

Lafell caught it in stride and picked up another 10 yards or so


Unfortunately it led to the clock spike disaster which turned a sizable portion of the fans against Miles for good.

Had that amazing onside kick not been successful it’s a kneel down loss that no one really feels too bad about given the way that season had gone to that point.

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the clock spike disaster

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I picture Les as a kid, lying in the grass, at high-noon, with a magnifying glass in hand, and a watch on the ground, and using the sunlight to melt the clock (the way other kids did snails). This would foreshadow what was to come. I think he really enjoyed torturing clocks.

The Mad Hatter

I would love more fake kicks and punts. Keeps the other team on their toes.

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The Peterson end around in 2010 was genius.

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Up there in the list of my all time favorite moments in Tiger Stadium.

Now this is a list I can get down with

Man I loved those years

My favorite onside kick of all time was lsu vs aubie 2001 bc those fricking frickers stomped on the tiger eye and fricked up the playing conditions, plus the year prior that fricker tuberville was smoking cigars on the sideline and passing them out to the whole team… with 9/11 delay and all the bad bad blood, sec west title on the line the first time I ever remember other than being at notre dame in like 95 or 96 and getting stomped and then not being allowed to go to the Florida game I was so ready for this.

That penalty caused kickoff to be pushed forward to I think 45 of Auburn side of field. So with lsu electing to receive the ball at the second half they kicked a fricking onside to start the game and Michael Clayton got it!!! I was at that game all one of the first games I was able to go alone with my buddy while our dads were at another part of stadium. I still got some of that grass in a box somewhere.