BestYearsofMyLife

It was certainly LSU related, and broke none of the guidelines....I think.

Found this a little earlier, brought back some really unpleasant memories. I was a Miles "apolgist" then, as called out in the following. A year later, I'm not so alone! BTW, the emphasis in the quote is mine.

Posted by MLA, on NOLA.com, last year in response to an article written after the Tennessee game LINK

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@Ponchatoula P, many of us here at LSU take no pleasure in criticizing Les Miles but we ARE concerned about the direction of the LSU football program. Les Miles past record has no correlation what-so-ever as to the future of this program. Need I remind you that we are 5-0 against no one ranked in the Top 25? Does anyone need to mention that we started out 4-0 & 5-0, respectively in 2008 & 2009 only to lose to Florida and finish 4-5 and 4-4? Beating MS St., Vanderbilt, unranked OOC teams and Louisiana sister schools is not what we pay our Coach $3.751 million (plus bonuses) a year, to do. We pay him to be competitive in the SEC West and compete for the SEC Championship, every year. But more than that, we pay him to represent this University and trust him with the direction of the program. We have become a joke in the National media... the only coverage that we have been receiving is negative, at best. We remain stagnate in the polls because we are perceived to be an incompetent program, even with the 5-0 record which we hear from Miles apologist over & over. We are also deeply concerned that recruiting has already began to suffer the ill effects of an impotent offense and deficient coaching. The elite athletes will continue to look elsewhere. You will not see me criticizing the players, but I do hold the coaches accountable. I am on record of being a huge supporter of Coach Tommy Moffit, Coach Chavis, Coach Cooper and Coach Robinson but Coach Crowton's offense has been going downhill and that is including the 2007 NC team when he took Jimbo Fisher's offense and immediately started making them worse... hence the losses to unranked KY and AR that year. We hear over and over about Les Miles 56-15 record but examine that record a little more closely and you'll see that he was 34-6 in his first three years, while swimming in Saint Nick's vast talent pool, and has gone 20-9 since. But more telling than that is the fact that he is 1-7 against FL, AL, Ole Miss & AR the last two years. And that our offense continues to be ranked at the bottom of the SEC. I don't need to criticize Miles you can pick up any periodical on any news stand in the country and you will be able to read an article on the coaching maladies at our University. But I feel compelled to make the feelings know of the many LSU supporters that are unhappy with the direction of this program. Remember that we you receiving your thousand dollar + bills from TAF and for Season tickets, next season.

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Come on man. Just noticing that someone is black is also racist? Jeez................

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i bet some of your best friends are black

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I don't know, I never really noticed

I don't post much, because usually many posters have already pretty much posted everything there is to post before I get a chance to read the board. But over the past few days, I have seen the "racist" moniker being thrown at a lot of posters, so I'll speak my piece.

In this case, it doesn't take "racists" to know which QB DID NOT get in a bar fight after breaking curfew. By the same token, it doesn't take "racists" to know which QB HAS been charged by a grand jury (not just by the police), with misdemeanor assault. All it takes is someone who can read, or see, or hear.

And it doesn't take a "racist" to be sorely disappointed in an LSU player's response to all the trouble caused, directly or indirectly, by himself. I believe JJ's "not my fault" attitude, his refusal to accept any kind of blame for what the university has suffered,is wrong.

I don't mean I expect JJ to admit any guilt in the assault charge; it is likely a jury will find him not guilty. I will even grant that a four-game suspension and loss of the starting job, with a trial and civil suit still to come, is pretty stiff punishment already.

But I wish JJ had showed the grace and class to embrace his individual responsibility (even if others were responsible also) and forge a new path for himself and the team. Maybe if he, just once, quietly and sincerely said something like: "I really should not have been there; I should not have been involved; and I will make sure it doesn't happen again to me or the team", it would be easier to accept him as a team player. I know that just about everybody I've talked to, and in my business that's a lot, would then have been okay with the way this has played out.

Anyway, as to the "racist' thing, it has been my sad experience that quite often the real "racists" are those who always bring up the race card when they can't fight any other way. Unfortunately, it appears this is true again in this case, for it wasn't "race" which got involved in the Shady's fiasco. It was JJ.

Anyway, for all you dogmatic JJ apologists, you can't have it both ways. Don't brand people with the derogatory and racist "redneck" out of one side of your mouth, and accuse someone else of being "racist" with the other. It really makes your mouth look funny.

Not likely! Google translated it from "Wonder if the Milesisms will make more sense in Spanish? Yes or no?" :lol:

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Jerry Lee's on Greenwell Springs Rd has about the best I've ever had

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Had some weekend of Oregon game, still best around IMO

I buy from Scallan's in Baton Rouge. They will split the backbone, cut off head, even season if you want it.

You're welcome.

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Updated Aug 24, 2011 12:58 AM ET
at the very top of the page

SEC Championship 2007, LSU vs. Tenn, Sat. 12 Noon, Fox Cable Channel 6 (and HD);
2011 Cotton Bowl, A&M vs. LSU, Sat. 3:30 p.m., Cox Sports (and HD);
2010 Alabama at LSU, Sun., 7 p.m., Cox Sports (and HD)

Yes.