LES MILES SAYS HELLO SHREVEPORT!!!
Waiting to get a read on Les Miles? We’ve got the word: flaaaaaky. Has sugar problems. Potentially born without a governor on his inner monologue, and not in that mad professor way like Mike Leach, but more like a sugar-crazed regional manager going nutsini at a quarterly reports meeting.
(”I WILL TEAR THIS PHONEBOOK IN HALF TO PROVE TO YOU HOW SERIOUS I TRULY AM ABOUT EXCELLENCE!!!”)
Miles dropped the F-bomb in reference to Alabama. And when we say the F-bomb, we mean fuck, as in “fucking Alabama,” the answer he gave to a question about LSU’s biggest rivalry. He can be confused for Godzilla. He lets it rip! He seems just a pace out of step with most public speaking situations, which leads us to our story.
Miles missed a trip to Monroe, Louisiana last week due to bad weather. Being the nice professional that he is, Miles addressed the crowd gathered at the dinner via cellphone. (Again, non-SEC sports fans. These are adults standing rapt around a cell phone talking about football. You don’t take this shit as seriously. You just. Can’t.)
Miles opening line to the crowd he couldn’t see? “I look forward to getting to Shreveport to see a lot of friends.”
HELLLOOOOOOO CLEVELAND!!!!
It’s ok, Les. Dangerous Toys did the same thing during the Monsters of Rock tour in Shreveport, and everyone was so hammered no one noticed. And they were HUGE, man.
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SKLM, do you know how long it takes us Alabamians to screw everyone in our family? We don’t have time for that other shit.
Comment by NewAZTiger — May 22, 2007 @ 4:33 pm
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I’ll agree that USC-UCLA can’t compete with Auburn-Alabama in terms of intensity of fans, but let’s be honest - who really does? I mean, if a blogger wants an easy way to add 50 comments to his post, he should either A) trash Alabama and praise Auburn or B) trash Auburn and praise Bama. Michigan and tOSU are a big rivalry, but trashing UM/tOSU and praising the other would not come close to producing the same result.
On the other hand, the rivalry means much more today than it did in 99-00 because both teams are much improved. I mean, even Auburn fans might have difficulty selling out their field if Paul Hackett coached their team.
Comment by Jeff from LA — May 22, 2007 @ 12:17 am
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SKLM: Agreed that the Cal and Stanford games are way below ND and UCLA as far as rivalry games, but the traveling fans give the game something extra compared to other Pac 10 teams (the schedule is set up so that each of the SoCal schools plays one NoCal team at home and one NoCal team on the road, so all 4 schools get a nice road trip every season). And while Stanford is a joke now, there are times such as when Willingham was coaching or when Elway was playing that they have been good.
Sandman: Part of your problem was that you were in Northridge, do people in the San Fernando Valley care about much besides producing porn? The other issue is that you were talking about UCLA fans.
I can only think of one USC game I’ve ever watched from a bar, that just isn’t a big thing to do in SoCal.
Comment by oc phil — May 21, 2007 @ 8:25 pm
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Yawnnnnn…..Pac 10 Rivalries:
#32: Interesting information. Pac 10 Rivals are quite predictable and based on reverse propinquity, whatever that means:
1. So Cal: USC - ucla
2. No Cal: Cal - Stanford (Cal has some sort of rivalry also with their little brother ucla, being part of the same statewide university system. However the hatred bruins have for USC is not matched by anyone else, by far.)
3. Oregon: Oregon vs. Oregon State
4. Wash: Wash, vs. Wash St
5. Az: Ariz vs. Ariz State
Comment by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me — May 21, 2007 @ 7:06 pm
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In the SEC it is simply “who your fanbase hates the most.” It can go outside of the conf. Historically it is the following:
Ala - Aub, Tenn
Aub - Ala, UGA, LSU
Ark - Ark is limited by geographic limitations. Has always viewed Texas as its rival (Tex has not returned the favor) Ole Miss and Ark had a heated rivarly during the 50’s and 60’s. Ark still feeling its way - LSU/Ark seem to building one but it hasn’t been in the conf long enough to figure out who it hates the most - right now it appears the most vile thing to the Ark fanbase is Houston Nutt.
LSU - historically LSU’s two biggest rivals were Ole Miss and Tulane time has faded both - conf is attempting to create a rivarly between LSU/Ark. LSU had a good rivarly with Fla and Ala. Over the past decade LSU and Aub’s rivarly has heated up.
Ole Miss - views LSU as its biggest rival but MS St is.
MS St - Ole Miss (claims Bama as a rival but see Ark/Tex above)
East
Fla - UGA, (Fla St), LSU
UGA - Fla, (Ga Tech) Aub
Vandy - geographically UT but really no fan interest means no rivals
KY - UT (see vandy above) - (Indiana)
UT - Ala, then Fla
So Car - clemson is its biggest rival
Comment by Bruce Dickinson — May 21, 2007 @ 4:37 pm
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But I’ll be honest, I lived there in 99-00, which was UCLA’s most recent heyday. Never talked to anyone excited about that game or any other, for that matter. In fact, I remember sitting in a sports bar in Northridge to watch the UCLA/Bama game in 2000, and only seeing 3 UCLA fans. Not that the place wasn’t packed: it was filled with Big 10 fans of every stripe.
OSU, Michigan, even an MSU fan…..made for an unsightly crowd by LA standards. Burly, unshaven, pasty white faces with bloodshot eyes…..and I don’t even want to talk about the men….
Comment by sandman227 — May 21, 2007 @ 4:27 pm