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LES MILES WANTS YOU TO HAVE A PLAN.

Les Miles' hurricane plan is probably pretty audacious. You might just pack the family into the car, stock up on some Aquafina from the nearest ravaged convenience store, and gas up on the way out of town. Miles wouldn't settle for that. No, he'd leave some element of chance in, like taking a lawnchair tied to 300 enormous yellow and purple balloons and just seeing where the wind takes him. (In 2007, it would have landed him directly in the middle of a pile of taffy and cash if last season's amazing Vegas streak translates to amateur aeronautics.)

In this PSA for hurricane awareness, the camera comes in from a fade, as if you're blind drunk or asleep and BAM! Miles in your house, lecturing you about hurricane planning. (Louisiana joke here.) He then does some passable cue card work, but what caught our eye was the play drawn up on the board.

Correct, junior coordinators: that's a fake field goal. Steve Spurrier just shanked a five-iron at the mention of that.

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you have to give to those wiley louisianaians . . .they are nothing if not subtle. the fake field goal hidden in the hurricane evac and the “have a great day” on the back of the tiger big rig. we’ll not miss their meaning.

by cscott on Aug 6, 2008 2:46 PM EDT reply actions  

Would we have them any other way? We would not. I fully expect Miles to take the field this year with custom purple and gold Truck Nutz dangling from his ballcap.

by Holly on Aug 6, 2008 2:49 PM EDT reply actions  

Running an option with your kicker as the pitch man? Testicles of adamantium, friends. It’s like his world is color, while we’re all seeing it in sepiatone. I couldn’t come up with that if I had a thousand mes and a thousand blank playbooks and a thousand years.

by White Speed Receiver on Aug 6, 2008 2:49 PM EDT reply actions  

The flip side annoucement with the LA Governer also has its own subtle puchline…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve_md3RhCkE&feature=related

You’ll note that the chalkboard behind them is blank. Les has a plan but the state of La. does not. Par for the course for those who witnessed their Katrina efforts.

by sullivan013 on Aug 6, 2008 2:50 PM EDT reply actions  

Miles has put together a damn STRONG PLAN.

by Biggus Rickus on Aug 6, 2008 2:54 PM EDT reply actions  

I want to know who put that play on the chalkboard…no way Les is that talented as an artist.

by zzgator on Aug 6, 2008 3:13 PM EDT reply actions  

Actually we were pretty shitty against the spread last year, IIRC.

by AP on Aug 6, 2008 3:15 PM EDT reply actions  

Tommy Tuberville’s hurricane evacuation plan? Bags of Golden Flake chips planted at the Alabama-Tennessee border

by Grimey on Aug 6, 2008 3:19 PM EDT reply actions  

That’s not a play on a chalkboard, Orson.

That’s actually alternate routes on backroads mapped out since the La. Dept. of Transportation ALWAYS works on the interstate during Hurricane Season & even when the contraflow plan is implemented early it rarely goes off w/o a hitch

by One And Done on Aug 6, 2008 3:27 PM EDT reply actions  

Florida’ new evacuation plan uses Ronnie Wilson as head of crowd control on I-95.

by hobeg8r on Aug 6, 2008 3:31 PM EDT reply actions  

Hurricanes? Pffft. App State have to worry about drowning in fast-moving mountain streams! Aghh, I’m drowning in a foot of class-2 rapids!

“You can’t swim by yourself, that’s dangerous! -Coco “Ewok” Hillary, WR Appalachian State

by FCSpeed on Aug 6, 2008 4:02 PM EDT reply actions  

I really don’t think that’s a fake FG. It looks like a 4-wide shotgun set. What they’re trying to accomplish in that play, though, only Les Miles and Trindon Holliday know. I have to imagine that play consists of Holliday using his 3.8 40 speed to fly to the end zone.

by WarCardinals on Aug 6, 2008 4:37 PM EDT reply actions  

Hard to tell, WarCardinals. If it’s a FG formation, it’s certainly unorthodox (normally it’s the outside blockers that are a step back) – but given that this is Miles, it’s certainly not implausible.

by SpartanDan on Aug 6, 2008 6:57 PM EDT reply actions  

Hell, that looks like the play Wottsomatta U. beat the Mud City Wranglers with in the last play of regulation.

Perfect Bullwinkle spiral.

by yoyofutbawl on Aug 6, 2008 11:38 PM EDT reply actions  

Fake FG? Maybe if Les has figured out how to get the defense to only put 6 on the line… The tip-off might be the kicker/QB standing directly behind the center (has George Blanda been given another year of eligibility by the NCAA?). It might be a fake punt, but there are no gunners. If you really want to know what the play is, watch the routes the receivers run – they spell out the word SUX!

by Duhhh on Aug 7, 2008 10:56 AM EDT reply actions  

One And Done @ 9 – Contraflow? We don’t need no stinking Contraflow!

by Studley on Aug 7, 2008 8:11 PM EDT reply actions  

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