re: Les Miles never ceases to amaze me

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There are a lot of Schools that would sell their soul for a coach that could give them a good 5 to 10 year run!

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Name a power 5 school that has hired a man 60+ years old.

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Saban loses to an inferior team every year.

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Wrong..not this year he didnt. Clemson was every bit as good as Bama this year.

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If that dude quit K-State tomorrow, I GUARANTEE you schools (and their would be some big time programs) would be busting his door down to come take over their programs.
The man is 14 years older than Lester and can coach circles around him and would be hired up in a NY second if the opportunity presented itself.

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Miles has a much better resume (Snyder 3 top 20, 0 top 10 finishes since Miles era) and ridiculous to even bring this up.
tRant would've never even hired him back like State.

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I'm simply pointing out that the age excuse where Miles is concerned is total BS.

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Yes, of course it is. Ignore those who say differently because they claim to have the ability to read the minds of every Athletic Director in the world. BUT, their confidence in their own mental powers is amusing, because it's so absurd.

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Look butch Davis was hired at 65 this year a

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Thank you for pointing this out. I didn't know this.

No problem, there was also a 79 year old hired at a smaller school this year. This fantasy that his age has anything to do with it is just ppl who knight for him doing what they've always done, make excuses for him. Guys like Nick Saban Bill Bellicheck, Mike Shannahan, Steve Spurrier, Bill Cowher and Tom Coughlin are all older and could have pretty much any job they wanted, college or pro.

You're on the rant, some of these ppl have huge issues, especially with the truth. They also have no problem ripping on 18 year old kids but throw a fit if you second guess grown men millionaires.

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EyeOfTheTiger14

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You didn't answer my question.

That's not the point. Those guys are always contacted about jobs they just don't want to coach anymore, or like you said have jobs. It doesn't eliminate the fact that guys like Pete Carroll (65) can have any job they choose. And you can't judge this on a 1 year timeline. Off the top of my head I know Bill Walsh at Stanford, Lou Holtz at USC, Barry Alvarez at wisky (twice over 60) and Steve Spurrier at USC were all 60 and hired at power 5 schools so saying it doesn't happen is wrong.

Ok you're still not picking up what I'm putting down. Spurrier isn't interested in recruiting and coaching right now. If he was he'd def be in demand. We are talking about a certain level of coach, their age and what types of jobs they'd be in demand for. Coughlin was contacted by Jacksonville this winter Shannahan was coaching a couple years ago and was contacted for jobs until it was known he would he assisting his son. Pete Carroll at 65 is about as hot a candidate as could he if he left Seattle and there were rumors he's starting to get tired of NFL players so it may yet happen even at an older age. The point is Miles commands none of this, hell like I said Butch Davis (65) got a job this year. Even small schools who Miles was reported to be in contention for have taken other guys yet an older Davis got one. Les Miles's resume is better than he is, there's no coach on earth who has his credentials at a place as big as LSU who wouldn't have been 1st on the Texas list and every other program out there. Yet he's at home twiddling his thumbs an making stupid statements hoping someone is dumb enough to buy his same old line.