Rut roh scraggy…gonna be a lot of mad Cajuns

Reading his lips it looks like he’s saying “DON’T spike it!” I can understand the confusion…

so that “dazed and confused” endgame strategy finally caught up with you, huh Les…

when I am having sex with my gf, Coach miles last words will begin rolling on an endless loop in my head…

“with every opportunity to win at the back end of the game, you like to finish with a victory”

Daffy: “Duck Season! SHOOT HIM NOW!”

I can’t imagine anyone doing anything so boneheaded at this level of play. Who’s that in the grassy knoll?

Facts and evidence do not matter to a “Michigan Man”. Stay classless Les!

The video is misleading. He’s not calling a spike…he’s looking at the Ole Miss player (who was acting as if he stripped/intercepted the ball) and calling that TT caught the ball, was down and it was LSU’s possession…He never looked at Jefferson for a spike. It does not become self evident until you watch the full footage to put it all in context.
 
I think the whole team was trying to figure out how a Hail Mary never got to the end zone. Chaos ensued and nobody was at the wheel. The best part of the full video is the Les Miles version of an AC/DC guitarist imitation…donkey hopping down the field Guitar Hero style…Sadly, that his is ill-formed gesture to “kick” the ball.

The blame is still clearly on him and his lack of game management.

I’m thankful for much this week – including the fact that I’m not an LSU or Jawja fan.

You think Les will get a Citizen Eco-Drive commercial now?

Upon further review, the ruling on the field stands; Les Miles is an idiot.

Is this show on before or after cops?

DON’T DO THIS!!!

Lester had himself in quite a box….but if he would have run straight on to the field and thrown a short elbow to one of the SEC’s finest, all hell would break loose, flags flying. Ample time to put the FG team on the field. 50k fine, wins the hearts and minds of the Baton Rouge literati.Still a makeable kick of around , what, 42? Or hard false start might do it with less style

/facepalm

Tangentially related, but does anyone know if the Klan actually showed up for that game? Or did they see some LSU tailgaters and ran away pissing their robes?

Why don’t LSU and Michigan just trade coaching staffs – no buyouts needed, everyone is happy(ier). Besides, imaging what kind of mutants Barwis could build with LSU’s roster and no pesky NCAA practice logs to fill out…

I seem to remember some kind of saying about the ratio of balls to brains.

Now what could that be…..

From Errol Castens of the Tupelo Daily Journal this AM: 9-10 Klan showed up to “rally” in front of Fulton Chapel (NOT the Grove and they sure as hell wouldn’t have been allowed in the stadium), faced with 250 or so drunk & disorderly Ole Miss and LSU tailgaters (probably the one moment anyone saw solidarity between those two fan bases EVER) and another 100 Ole Miss students wearing t-shirts that said “Turn Your Back on Hate,” who proceeded to, well, turn their backs to the Klansmen while reading the school Creed. The rally was supposed to last an hour…it lasted less than 10 minutes when the UPD forced them off campus.

Ole Miss students did us proud, but sadly all the media will report is the Klan was allowed at Ole Miss in the first place.

“What, you want me to spike it? That’s the dumbest thing I can think of, but if that’s what coach wants………….”

@ #6 – as a UGA and LSU fan, I am thankful for…well, nothing really. I would say my health, but considering I’ve probably had several small strokes this season, that’s shit, too.

@12

About 8 of them or so showed up at 10AM on campus, saw a large counter protest, and left after maybe 10 minutes. Police in riot gear had to escort them back to their cars.

Is there a Cajun word for “dumber than dirt”? Oh yeah. It’s “dummathandurt”.

And to the UGA/LSU fans this week, I hereby tender the immortal words of a Vol fan who said last week: “I read the obits in the paper today and thought, ‘Lucky Fuckers!’”

Ain’t college football wunnerful?

That Les Miles didn’t go crazy; that Les Miles went Les Miles!

This is why the SEC is so great – can you imagine this happening in any other conference? The last 5 minutes of the game and the post-game interviews are vintage SEC craziness.

That’s not a slap at the SEC, just pointing out you would never see something like that from Tressel vs. Paterno, Stoops vs. Brown, Carroll vs. Kelly, etc. Only in the SEC do you get characters like Miles and Nutt.

Typical Michigan Man.

It was high entertainment watching Nutt and Miles try to out-retard each other. Oh, and I’m pretty sure Tracy Wolfson has a sexual harrassment claim against Captain Giggity if she chooses to pursue it. Somebody, quick, subpoena Nutt’s cell phone records.

1959. 1972. Now 2009. This bloodsport of a series has seen some crazy endings. Shouldn’t have come down to this typical SEC wackiness at the end, without some questionable calls overturning 2 OM TDs in Q1.

PSUfanNYC, while the SEC certainly takes it to a level of refinement unseen elsewhere, I’m pretty sure the OK St / Kansas game could produce a similar type of coaching, um, influence.

This may be the most dramatic — and wacky — case of end-game time mismanagement we’ve seen, but it’s far from the first.

As others has pointed out, the game was really lost when so much time was allowed to tick away earlier in the drive — and again, that’s in line with what we’ve been seeing here and there all year.

I think increasingly elaborate offensive systems are part of the problem here. Teams get used to quite the song-and-dance anymore:

Play call is relayed from the box to the sideline, substitutions are determined and sent in, play is sent from sideline to huddle, armband secret-decoder is checked, team saunters up to the line and pretends to get set and be ready to go, they pop up again like prairie dogs and look over to the sideline for play changes, the quarterback goes back under center but then steps back again and points and gives instructions like he’s Peyton Manning, then either gives up and calls time-out or steps back under center for a quick snap to just barely beat the play clock…

No wonder time gets wasted, people make bad decisions, and all hell generally breaks loose when there’s just those few seconds left and everybody’s trying to compress this whole routine into a fraction of the time. The only surprise is that we’re surprised that the people in the middle of all this hurly-burly don’t always quickly perceive aspects of the big picture that are blindingly obvious to the half-drunk fan sitting on his couch.

That said, Les Miles is still clearly crazy.

Not just the fact that he screwed up on the timeout on the previous play. Ok. But he had that timeout to see there was 9 seconds left and plan for the next play. During that timeout, he could have said to his team, um team, if you don’t get in the end zone or out of bounds, we gotta kick it and I don’t know maybe HAVE HIS FG KICKER READY?!?. What was he doing during that timeout? Mmmmm, taffffyyyyyyy!!!!!

Les illustrates the razor’s edge between reliance on luck and appearing an idiot…to allow luck to enhance your performance you must have faith and know that what you wish to happen will happen. If/when luck refuses to make you look like a genius, you appear the exact opposite, or as Les looks now. He must have lost faith as he is certainly doing anything but manifesting positive results…metaphysics so early on Monday morning…I need another coffee.

Never seen so much hootenanny about something so irrelevant. The game was over no matter what Les decided. Blaming a loss on the inconsequential decisions in a single final second embodies not seeing the forest for the tree.

Just wondering… How are we sure this is that last play? Why would the players be walking so slowly and not jumping down as much on the sidelines because a hail maryish pass was just completed? Shenanigans?

I miss the Les Miles’ posts about taffy……………..