FEAR OF A WHITE HAT: WHY LSU COULD WIN THE MYTHICAL NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
by Holly Anderson on Oct 6, 2010 2:43 PM EDT
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Yes, this about covers it.
Fearless Leader's Evil Contrarian piece about LSU's title chances (yes, really; see: contrarian) is up and at 'em at the mothership:
A little bit of stupidity is simply mandatory if one wants to be happy day to day, one has to get at least a degree of stupid on, and be a successful person. Stupidity is therefore like alcohol, right? If a little bit is good, a lot has to be even better, right? And won't leave you vomiting uncontrollably in an alley wishing you were dead? What? You say this reminds you of a certain college football team? And would serve as a delightful segue of sorts?
Read it and weep, both from mirth and recognition of boggy, inescapable truth.
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"This is not you, most likely..."
I have never been summed up so accurately in one paragraph in my life and I say that with no intent of hyperbole and in spite of it, I feel no shame whatsoever…
Equal Opportunity Hater
404'd
The page you are looking for does not exist WHY DID YOU PUT LES MILES IN CHARGE OF HYPERLINKING THIS
The new year approaching, click in. Let’s facelift bar! Open the wardrobe is not yet found love after another the right clothes? So, also waiting for? Immediate action bar!
that would be fitting post to cap most of you rants.
/just sayin
MSState Football: You want INT's? We got 'em.
by CoastalCowbell on Oct 6, 2010 3:23 PM EDT up reply actions
Beautiful
The capstone visual of Les Miles eating a blizzard on the other sidelines with his fingers brings a heartfelt laugh after having soaked in all of this genius. Bravo.
Les Miles: Phil Steele had you pegged as a "fired ass" ever since the UNC debacle...
Why do you want to prove him wrong?
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
You can haz
The 2001 Saban LSU defensive playbook aka the gold standard of defensive football coaching
The new year approaching, click in. Let’s facelift bar! Open the wardrobe is not yet found love after another the right clothes? So, also waiting for? Immediate action bar!
10 years later....
Sabans methodology still holds true, as does his defensive philosophy. That is Sabans Manifesto, and you can go thru it and mark out the stuff that Les Miles leaves out and still wins games(more than half). If you can read that and apply it, you will be a better defensive player on NCAA ‘11….he still uses that same lingo. I can see why most of these kids recruited to play defense wash out, especially if they have ADD/ADHD, because that stuff is NFL level complicated. The offense goes in motion to confuse defenses, and if you haven’t got the right guy calling the def. formation, you get basically Bamas first half vs Arkansas. If it looked like a NFL chess match, it was. Plus his def is predicated on “arm strength of the QB” and Mallett has a cannon.
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
by mrpelicanpants on Oct 6, 2010 4:45 PM EDT up reply actions
agreed but
I think a bigger complement is to call any given vanilla playbook in the NFL “college level complicated.”
My mind just articulated the Tennessee checkerboard...
On the front of the bus in Freek’s image. Fkng brill.
Didn't notice that till you pointed it out.
Genius. Fucking Genius.
"In case you're wondering what the offense should look like, that wasn't it." - Urban Meyer
Still 404'ing
Whiskey bottle, brand new car -- oak tree, you're in my way.
-- Lynyrd Skynyrd
by An 'eer with a beer on Oct 6, 2010 3:47 PM EDT reply actions
OK got it now
Front page is still bad.
Whiskey bottle, brand new car -- oak tree, you're in my way.
-- Lynyrd Skynyrd
by An 'eer with a beer on Oct 6, 2010 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions
In a world gone sideways you need a sideways mind to survive
It’s a little terrifying how fully Fearless Leader gets Les Miles.
He is almost a fictional character
Les is the only coach Ive ever seen to turn himself into a cartoon!! I mean he is the George W Bush of coaching… A complete idiot that makes you wonder how he coaches in the first place… but never loses so how can you bitch?? I love it!! He is Wile E Coyote… but actually catches the Roadrunner!!!?? It is just great stuff year in and year out!! In these days filled with Reality TV he should definately get a show… could you imagine him having commentary on his film sessions? Breaking down what he was trying to do and what he was thinking about?! I would tune in every week!!
by Chi-Town Senator on Oct 6, 2010 4:31 PM EDT reply actions
You bout nailed it here, he is a cartoon type
But please, reduce the punctuation in your posts
Bull Sullivan "Toughest Coach there ever was"
by Another damn Dan on Oct 6, 2010 9:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Man
Every time it looks like he’s going to get hit by the bus, and every time he misses it.
Team Speed Kills -- SBNation's SEC Blog
If you're so inclined, follow me @Year2
I know, looks like he speeds up right at the end
Is it bad that I’ve watched that video about a 100 times?
by Screen Name 20 on Oct 7, 2010 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions
How do you like to think of Les Miles?
I remember a few years ago some mentally-ill guy on PCP or some similar fun substance got ahold of an 18-wheeler, and kept it going for a surprisingly long high-speed pursuit before crashing it into the wall and getting wrestled from the driver’s seat by state police, all the while screaming that the devil was trying to kill him. Les Miles is sort of like that, only with less self-awareness, way more PCP, and he will never, ever crash.
Hell, look at the history of La. politicians
They don’t just want a coach…..they want a show
LSU-Boise St. for the title
would be the highest rated college football game of all time.
LSU-Michigan would also be great. Watching LSU’s offense take the field against Michigan’s defense would be like flipping the channel just in time to hear the violins start playing in an obscure 1970s horror movie; you don’t know what’s about to happen, but you know it’ll be ugly.
Perhaps Orson used the wrong Flaubert quote
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in -
Gustave Flaubert
by tboneinSC on Oct 6, 2010 5:36 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
bro love
intended for tboneinSC, altho i guess Spencer deserves a squeeze, too.
by Illegal Smoke Machine on Oct 6, 2010 6:09 PM EDT up reply actions
LOL, what the hell was that?
Bull Sullivan "Toughest Coach there ever was"
by Another damn Dan on Oct 6, 2010 9:24 PM EDT up reply actions
The Les Miles Soundtrack
goes just like this.
If I had time, I’d mix it with some images. So perfect.
by ESS EEE SEE Speed on Oct 6, 2010 6:34 PM EDT reply actions
This little tidbit about Miles had me laughing even harder
Spencer, a masterpiece. In particular, the Oregon vs LSU and Kelly beaning himself in frustration had me laughing so hard I was spitting out my soda.
And then I followed this link from Rob Mosely to an SI article on the Stanford-Oregon game. It starts off with the usual stuff — Oregon scoring blah blah, but about a page in, there’s this absolute jewel of a story I hadn’t heard anywhere else about how the Ducks won QB Thomas from LSU. It just cracked me up completely. I fell off my couch laughing even harder. If it’s possible to pass out from laughing too much, I almost managed it.
Les Miles, yes you are a legend. I’m a bit thankful I’m in the safe environs of the PAC 10 and able to enjoy his brilliance from a detached distance. I don’t know what I’d do as an LSU fan, really, or even worse, Derek Dooley or the Tennessee fan base.
Darron Thomas was bayou-bound. The quarterback from Aldine High in Houston had relatives in Louisiana. His mother, Latina, wanted him to play in Louisiana. He’d gone to LSU’s camp two summers in a row and committed to the Tigers as a junior. “He was an LSU guy all the way,” recalls Bob Jones, who coached Thomas at Aldine. But Thomas’s affections were not completely requited. Even after he pledged his allegiance to Les Miles, the Tigers’ head man continued to recruit quarterbacks. Meanwhile, Thomas saw his position on recruiting websites change from quarterback to athlete.
On Nov. 23, 2007, Jones and Thomas were guests of LSU for the Tigers’ game against Arkansas—a triple-overtime 50—48 win by the Razorbacks. “Greatest game I’ve ever seen,” says Jones, “but Darron couldn’t enjoy it.” Before the game, Jones had delivered a friendly reminder to Miles: “Remember, whatever you do, don’t call Darron an athlete.” Among The Hat’s first words to Thomas that day: “Darron, you’re a great athlete. You can do a lot of different things.” …“I don’t want to go to LSU anymore,” Thomas told Jones soon after that. “I’m a quarterback.”
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1175409/index.htm#ixzz11cyb1zSn
good piece...but!
This logic is flawed and the antipathy of the Zen:
“You shouldn’t even be here: most of this reality is cold empty space, most people on the earth scratch out an existence on what you pay for a television, and the chances of any of those people getting together and successfully mating and creating you is so infinitesimally low you’d tremble with the kind of fear Kierkegaard would call fear if you knew how very small the chances of you being you really were.”
You have to be here, because you are. In fact there is a 100% chance of you being here, because look – there you are. If you weren’t here you couldn’t read this. And if you were someone else, there’s a 100% chance that is who you would be. What’s more, if you weren’t here, you wouldn’t know it. And if you were anything else but what you are, that is what you would be. Hail Discordia.
They decided against drug testing NCAA coaches
After they found out that Les Miles IS a drug, and the entire fanbase for LSU is alternately in and out of rehab throughout the season.
Say what you want about the ills of addiction, but I suspect that until it is experienced first hand, the rest of us will remain like the nerdy health teacher who admits he’s never tried the stuff personally, but still warns against it because he witnessed a friend ruin his life.
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