re: AP: Les Miles has a new contract w/ LSU that includes both a raise and extension

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everyone's gotta look out for themselves but i lost some respect for les today.

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Your sig quote contains...
im shaking your tail feathers, i got big balls
...and You lost respect for LES???

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Why would Arkansas throw that much money at Les after that abomination of a game last week in Fayetteville? Dumbarses

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According to Les they didn't.

I think what some people fail to realize is that what Joe Alleva said is absolutely correct. It's not ALL about winning championships. Les took a successful program, made it his own, lived through some growing pains, and has now built a stable, consistent program that contends for championships. Remember, LSU was not eliminated from the SEC title game hunt until last Saturday (ok, theoretically once they lost to Bama it seemed a long shot at best).

There are probably about 115 programs in the country that would love that sort of consistency from their top money-making athletic team.

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Sounds a whole lot like America and Obama. Guess I'll just have to live with the changing America.



You should have been getting use to it because America was changing long before Obama. You just failed to notice for other reasons I guess

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Not sure who you're replying to here.

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He's laughing all the way to the bank.

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And guess who carries the burden on that joke? Not LSU. Not TAF. That's right, season ticket holders who regularly attend games and buy concessions, merchandise, etc.

ETA: I need to take lessons from Les, and tell my boss tomorrow that our competitor offered a position to me for more money. I'll completely make the whole thing up, and walk out with a raise. I'll even make sure to spread it to our vendors, clients, etc. so that they spread the rumor back to him to make it sound real.

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And guess who carries the burden on that joke? Not LSU. Not TAF. That's right, season ticket holders who regularly attend games and buy concessions, merchandise, etc

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It's really easy to give up your tickets

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Godamn!!! Another fricking extension and more money. At this rate in five years he's gonna have a fifty year contract for 500 million dollars! frick! All anyone has to do is cough in his direction and he gets more money and a longer contract.

Y'all don't see a problem with this? Really?

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Question -- when Saban was here, did you have a problem with it when he pulled the same shite?

For the most part, head coaches are a commodity. When a coach out distances himself from the "commodity" spectrum, such as Saban, Miles, Meyer ... you have to pay market rate for that 'better than commodity' coach.

Get over it. I can't believe there are this many dumbass LSU fans that can't see the forest because of the trees.

Would ya'll feel better if we had an AD "playing other programs" like those dumbass Arkansas fans feel like Jeff Long did to LSU, meanwhile he can't get a half-decent coach to sign up to be his guy? Would you feel better if we were on our 2nd crappy hire after having one leave in the middle of the night like UT? Would you feel better if the program slid into obscurity like UK.

Or maybe you'd feel better if Miles had completely shite the bed in 2008 and then went SEC winless in 2009 and he'd been fired then... all the while his program was under NCAA investigation?

Yes, I want BCS championships too. Yes, I was disappointed by 1/9 too. But the LSU Football program is in great hands and I am enjoying how this program is in the top 5 almost every year. For every Perriloux and Mathiu flame-out, Miles has recruited 10 Montgomery's, Mingos, and Peterson's. Relax and enjoy this period of exceptional, yes I said, EXCEPTIONAL LSU Football. Or, you know... go cry in Auburn's beer with them.

There are simply too many spoiled brats that have entered this fan base that make us all seem like uneducated hicks.

This is good news.

Any word on a dollar figure?