re: caller asks about miles to ole miss

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Les Miles is a perfect example of refusing to change because you believe you're right versus actual results. We all admire uncompromising men because they're brave. But it is the ability to change and compromise that can make coaches some of the all time greats.

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In Miles' case that wasn't stubbornness. That was stupidity. He obviously thought he was smarter than everyone else, but he wasn't, he was more stupid than everyone else, except for Rickdaddy, that dude is the smartest ignoramus in the world.

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You are trying to conflate two decisions into one. Firing Miles was unquestionably a good decision. Hiring his replacement was a completely separate decision. Whether it was a good one has nothing whatsoever to do with whether firing Miles was a good one.

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Actually, that's just Rickdaddy trying to hijack another thread and turn it into another pissing contest between Coach O and Less Miles because he is obsessed with hating Coach O.

Dude, don't make finebaums point valid in your post trying defending miles, thats what you just did. You look like a complete fool.

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When you fire a guy who is still winning, you are taking a serious gamble and its only a good decision if the guy you bring in is more successful than the guy you fired.

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You still aren't getting it. Those are two separate decisions. Miles wasn't going to change and we weren't going to reach our potential with him, so he needed to go, period. Then, we decided to hire Orgeron, which may or may not turn out to be a good move, but has nothing to do with Miles needing to go.

If you're standing in the path of an oncoming truck, it's a good idea to move out of the way. If you decide to move into the path of an oncoming train, that's not a good idea, but still doesn't mean you should have stayed in the path of the truck.

No Les was stubborn. Everyone knows the game changes and you have to adapt but Les refused to do it because he was either stupid or stubborn and I don't think he was stupid.

It would make no sense for Ole Miss to hire Les Miles. Les Miles took an elite program and led them into irrelevance.

Would be like the ridiculous move South Carolina made hiring Will Muschamp to resurrect their program. He couldn't at Florida, how can he do it at South Carolina?

Sort of like LSU hiring......well.....nm

there are some real knuckleheads on here. oh, i'm an idiot cause I don't know what stubborn means.

please look the word up in your dictionary. it means willfully obstinate.

what I said is that it's beyond miles willful control.
let me give you a golf analogy. you know the worst thing you can do is try to hit the crap out of that golf ball! when you do that, you end up "swinging from the top" and send off some gorgeous slices. you know you shouldn't do it, you make up your mind, and try to exercise masterful control over your will to not swing so hard. instead, as you start that swing, the joy of "power" arises, singing through your whole body, and you swing like hell. you tried your best, you wanted a nice, smooth swing, but you couldn't do it. you were not stubborn. you were out of control.

can any of you eggheads understand that?

Yep. His "style" produced 114 wins over 11 seasons. What other teams achieved that over a similar period?

".....Yep. His "style" produced 114 wins over 11 seasons..."........

Just think what that number could have been??????