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Posted on 11/3/10 at 4:06 pm to Topwater Trout
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so your saying
No, 'my saying' would be something recognizable that I've said repeatedly like 'for the love of Billy Cannon'.
What I am saying is that your lack of reading/listening comprehension skills makes YOU, not Miles, look like a moron.
If you need to take a course to understand what he said in that press conference then any middle school in the GBR area should help out.
Park Forest was pretty good back in the 70s/80s not sure where to send you now.
Posted on 11/3/10 at 4:16 pm to Broham
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who are a little bit nicked and will probably be playing with greatest health this Saturday."
So they're nicked, but at the same time they'll be playing in there greatest health
Posted on 11/3/10 at 4:17 pm to UGATiger26
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He makes 3.8 million/year. He is the CEO of this program
Correct
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He has responsibilities to be reasonably straight with the media and fans
He is. He answers the questions truthfully but without a lot of 'meat'.
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I know people will say "He doesn't care what you or the media thinks."
No, he said it and I applaud him for it.
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The media isn't being too kind to him right now due to how he answers to the media.
Again, he doesn't care. He cares about his football team.
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Obviously, this isn't a football democracy or something, but they are, after all, the fans.
No, it's not a democracy but tell me one time that Miles has disrespected the fans.
His job is to give us a winner, he does.
I'd prefer you just say thank you and not question the man about how he gives you that winner!
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I don't think anybody expects him to come out and say something like this
Did you skip the thread and jump right to my comments?
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throwing players under the bus (I don't know who told him to clock it)
You really don't know what you are talking about and I really don't have time for this whole DISHONESTLY EDITED VIDEO argument but you are wrong.
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How in the hell would the media translate "Our receivers need to improve their blocking" to Miles abuses his players?
Miles said they need to improve; you just have no READING/LISTENING COMPREHENSION so again, Park forest.
Have a great day!
Posted on 11/3/10 at 4:17 pm to SouthernMan
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No, 'my saying' would be something recognizable that I've said repeatedly like 'for the love of Billy Cannon'.
What I am saying is that your lack of reading/listening comprehension skills makes YOU, not Miles, look like a moron.
If you need to take a course to understand what he said in that press conference then any middle school in the GBR area should help out.
Park Forest was pretty good back in the 70s/80s not sure where to send you now.
I generally have great comprehension skills. I must have missed the semester on idiot speak b/c not only am I having trouble understanding what Miles says I am having a tough time understanding what your saying. I went to St. Aloysius and at this moment I am really grateful I didn't go to Park Forest b/c apparently that's where you learned your reading and comprehension skills. I actually tend to believe they didn't teach you anything since you have no concerns with how our head coach speaks.
Miles answers a question and my reply is WTF did he say? As do most educated people in this state.
Southernman says I don't know what he said and i really don't care look at his win loss record.
Posted on 11/3/10 at 4:17 pm to SouthernMan
You miss the point. Fans are sick of this dumass circle talk. Just answer the question Coach Miles. For the money you make you should be able to.
Furthermore, if you are trying to keep the opponent in the dark as to what your game plan is at least inform the players. Also, teach em to catch a pass and find a QB worthy of playing for LSU.
Furthermore, if you are trying to keep the opponent in the dark as to what your game plan is at least inform the players. Also, teach em to catch a pass and find a QB worthy of playing for LSU.
Posted on 11/3/10 at 4:30 pm to SouthernMan
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Miles said they need to improve; you just have no READING/LISTENING COMPREHENSION so again, Park forest.
Ok, so quick question: If Miles was saying what you claim he said (they need to improve) then why does it take him an entire paragraph to convey this thought? That's the point I'm trying to make. By trying to be all cutesy and PC, he makes his answers way more complicated and rambling than they need to be, and it makes him come across as confused. Kind of like how he seems on the field. No wonder the media is teeing off on him.
Maybe he thinks the smart fans and media will understand him, but his emotionally fragile players won't?
This post was edited on 11/3/10 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 11/3/10 at 4:32 pm to lsufan9193969700
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NO, I understood the Canterbury Tales
Original or translated? I'm assuming you don't speak Middle English.
Posted on 11/3/10 at 5:26 pm to Broham
Our WR's have the want to block harder
they have the want to play their best game of the year
they have the want to play their best game of the year
Posted on 11/3/10 at 5:38 pm to UGATiger26
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The media isn't being too kind to him right now due to how he answers to the media.
oh so this is new this year? Come on. The fanbase's vocalism is killing our respect AND our ability to be taken seriously. You should know by now that the media doesn't really watch what happens, but rather tries to make a story about it- the LSU fanbase is not protecting its own, and that's where this comes from.
Posted on 11/3/10 at 5:51 pm to alange
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the LSU fanbase is not protecting its own, and that's where this comes from.
I protected Miles for years. The vast majority of the football world has viewed him as an idiot, albeit a lucky idiot, for many years now. I defended him against one verbal slam after another. Now the viewpoint is practically every single person outside of LSU views him as an idiot and the majority of the LSU fanbase views him as such.
I defended him after Auburn and other clusters. I defended him after the two headed DC cluster. I defended him after the 113th ranked offense stacked with 4 and 5 star talent. I stopped defending him after Ole Miss last year because that was indefensible. Still, I did not criticize him. After UT and now Auburn this year, along with another 112th or so ranked offense loaded with 4 and 5 star talent, it has just gotten kind of tiresome, sad, ridiculous, and ultimately deflating.
So here we are...4 pages into a thread trying to figure out what Miles was saying with a few remaining defenders. I understand why people criticize Miles. I understand why people defend him to the end. Its just unfortunate.
Posted on 11/3/10 at 5:58 pm to alange
quote:so it's really the fan's fault.... yeah, we're responsible....
the LSU fanbase is not protecting its own, and that's where this comes from.
Posted on 11/3/10 at 6:08 pm to Broham
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"I guess what I'm saying is I'm in the key piece of my season where the big plays have yet to have been made.
Miles even has no clue and is guessing at what he is saying
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As I go into the next game, I look for those plays to be more important than anything that we've done in the past, and to say that I have any opinion to this point that would be finite would not
The bold part is we have to make big plays in big games life this. I have no clue what the rest of it is.
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ally, I'm expecting this receiving corps to do the things that they've done in the past, and that is rebound and play like hell and play well
I guess he is saying he expects the recievers to do all the good things they have done in the past and grow and rebound from what they did bad at.
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In many instances there is some developing going on,
Refering to QBs
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and there are some guys, in my opinion, who are a little bit nicked
Jarret Lee
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will probably be playing with greatest health this Saturday
He will be healthy.
So overall, I feel like listening to Miles is like trying to figure out one of those mazes on a kiddy menu. It is just a jumble of lines and stuff that makes no sense, but it can be worked through. Overall I think Miles finds it funny, thats the only explanation. I guess its more fun for him to say "will be playing with the greatest health, rather than to say "hell be healthy and ready to go this weekend."
But anyways
Posted on 11/3/10 at 6:38 pm to Topwater Trout
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I generally have great comprehension skills
debatable
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not only am I having trouble understanding what Miles says I am having a tough time understanding what your saying.
Not surprising
The explanation of what you highlighted
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makes YOU, not Miles, look like a moron.
is that it is YOUR (not you're) inability to understand what a well educated and thoughtful man says in plain (if somewhat cryptic) English means that YOU, not him, have the problem.
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I actually tend to believe they didn't teach you anything since you have no concerns with how our head coach speaks.
Again, I possess at least a middle school comprehension level so I get it, sorry they didn't help you with that at St. Aloysius.
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Miles answers a question and my reply is WTF did he say? As do most educated people in this state.
Having grown up in the great and beautiful state of Louisiana and then having completed my education (both secular and practical) elsewhere I know exactly what you mean. It's just reversed.
Think 'Swamp People'. (Great show, btw)
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Southernman says I don't know what he said and i really don't care look at his win loss record.
No, Southernman says I've met and talked with the man, asked him questions at press conferences and usually don't have a problem understanding him, even when he uses a little coach speak AND I LOVE HIS WIN LOSS RECORD.
In all seriousness, if you didn't hear the press conference live don't try to read an out of context snippet from a literal transcript and tell me he's an idiot.
He is not, and frankly I'm sure you're (not your) not either but drop the Miles is an idiot crap.
This post was edited on 11/3/10 at 6:41 pm
Posted on 11/3/10 at 6:42 pm to Broham
he's just saying "somebody has to step up and make a play"
Posted on 11/3/10 at 6:48 pm to Broham
Oh Brother Where Art Thou! FINALLY I KNOW WHO HE REMINDS ME OF! Clooney's character.
Posted on 11/3/10 at 8:20 pm to SouthernMan
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debatable
How so? This coming from a man who thinks Miles is a genius
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is that it is YOUR (not you're) inability to understand what a well educated and thoughtful man says in plain (if somewhat cryptic) English means that YOU, not him, have the problem.
I erred in my typing so I am an idiot? lol Miles can't speak in complete sentences w/o using uhms throughout his thoughts and you think he is a genius.
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Think 'Swamp People'. (Great show, btw)
You lived in Baton Rouge and stereotype Louisiana to be a state full of the people portrayed on Swamp people. Let me give you some insight they did a casting call for the show and chose the "characters" to fit the stereotype that you are also apparently not trying to dispute.
[quote]AND I LOVE HIS WIN LOSS RECORD.
This is the best point you make and it is a good one. But you do realize that there is more to a win/loss record? And public perception is a very important part of his job. He is the face of the University.
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He is not, and frankly I'm sure you're (not your) not either but drop the Miles is an idiot crap.
I may be wrong but I don't think I have said he is an idiot but you may be right. I do not know him so if i have i was wrong but I do think he is viewed as one based on interviews and press conferences.
Posted on 11/3/10 at 8:24 pm to alange
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oh so this is new this year? Come on. The fanbase's vocalism is killing our respect AND our ability to be taken seriously. You should know by now that the media doesn't really watch what happens, but rather tries to make a story about it- the LSU fanbase is not protecting its own, and that's where this comes from.
At some point you have to make Miles accountable for his public perception not the fans.
Posted on 11/3/10 at 8:33 pm to Topwater Trout
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This coming from a man who thinks Miles is a genius
I didn't say he was a genius but he IS a well educated and VERY accomplished man.
Barak Obama is GREAT behind a Teleprompter and his ability to 'speak' well publicly got him elected as the leader of the Free world.
His inability to back up ANYTHING he promised got his party annihilated last night.
A leader has almost nothing to do with his ability to speak behind a microphone, though it is often mistaken for such.
Les Miles has developed a unique coach speak that sounds very odd in the deep south and particularly in the land of 'Swamp People' where they could have cast 1/2 the state (including much of my own family), it doesn't make him stupid and he clearly is not.
Look at his education and resume, no moron compiled that.
Posted on 11/3/10 at 8:36 pm to Broham
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"I guess what I'm saying is I'm in the key piece of my season where the big plays have yet to have been made. As I go into the next game, I look for those plays to be more important than anything that we've done in the past, and to say that I have any opinion to this point that would be finite would not. Really, I'm expecting this receiving corps to do the things that they've done in the past, and that is rebound and play like hell and play well. If they do that, that's just what I want to see them do. In many instances there is some developing going on, and there are some guys, in my opinion, who are a little bit nicked and will probably be playing with greatest health this Saturday."
Translation
"We are about to play the most important game of the season and our talent hasn't yet showed it's full potential. As we head into the Bama game, I believe these talents must be utilized to their full potential, because this game is more important than any game we've played thus far. Really, I'm expecting this receiving corps to execute the way they have shown they could and that is rebound (from the auburn loss) and play hard and execute. If they do that, then I will be pleased. Throughout this young team there is still some developing going on, and there are some guys, in my opinion, who suffered minor injuries and will probably be playing 100% this Saturday"
This is what I got from it... It's not that difficult really.
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