Post Game Chatter: The Bama Game

I didn’t believe you had it in you. Sorry Lee, I thought you did, but that crazy dance in a well protected pocket showed too much. Sorry Bama, you pricks had such a good time talking (singing, chanting) shit in the restrooms before the game like it was 1970 and you were not 18 mos from mediocracy, that I felt bad beating your butt. Turns out Bama is just really impressive in public restrooms – go figure.
Not going to apologize to Miles as I have not been calling for his head. Congrats to him. Crow still must go. Yesterday was just an avg offensive performance for a top 10 team – we need that every week not once every 7 game. We could be crazy F’n good.
Great day to be in Death Valley!

So many good choices there and no way Bama will not be on it I would think—RBR is a great site and I will watch, enjoy and not disturb.

Screw the apology and the platitude, I don’t need either.

They can just recognize greatness and shut the hell up for all I care.

Even if they were right about Miles not ever being able to beat Florida or Bama (ha) again, even if they were right that Miles couldn’t keep us on the level of competing for championships, the hatred and slander hurled at that Man from people who claim to bleed the same purple and Gold that you and i bleed is beyond acceptable to me.

One of the main reason’s a 7-1 (7-0 before that) team was the subject of so much scorn was because SOOOOOO much of it was coming from our own.

Well, to ALL of you (not those who were just concerned or had doubts) that wished evil upon the man and tried at every turn to make him look like a buffoon. Reach down, grab you a hand full of dirt and grass and shove it!

That’s what I say.

anything about it, but just going by his path as you wrote and from an article I read about his path to where he is now. Being an executive with a good job, He kept calling Bo several times who discouraged him at first more in the sense of “trust me you don’t want to do this, stay in the good place you are at kind of way” and then Bo said OK (Miles’ salary was very little compared to what he did have before but he was “thrilled to be in college football” as you say, and a like how they had something of a father and son relationship. Also, a man of character—I have supported Miles all along because he wins, recruits well, is a nice guy, is a lot of fun/crazy in a good way, ect. through the last two years and before, but he has kept his focus with his players who love the guy through the onslaught of negativity coming his/their way.

About Miles understanding that he’s part of the “greater whole.”

He seems genuinely humbled to be apart of the game. I love him saying he is “honored” to be on the sidelines coaching this team.

It heartens me greatly to see players like Russel Shepard and Kelvin Sheppard come so vociferously to the defense of their coach, who they clearly respect and admire. It makes me think that Les Miles is a college football coach for all the right reasons.

I consider Nick Saban and Urban Meyer to be the two best coaches in college football. However, I wouldn’t trade either for Miles for the simple fact that Miles remembers that this is supposed to be fun. And I really like that coaches such as Miles and Carroll remind you that you can have fun and still be a quality team, that a dour countenance and stern lectures about “the process” are neither sufficient nor even necessary to win a football game.

this is why I came to school here

I just got chills reading this, because I was at the ’03 UGA game and know exactly what you mean. I still get worked up thinking about that atmosphere, and miss being able to be in the student section every home game…

That being said, WAY TO GIVE ‘EM HELL TIGERS!!! I love this team. I felt like the ’03 team was a little like Ivan Drago from Rocky IV, where people just expected us to come out and beat the hell out of people, whereas this year, we’re definitely Rocky Balboa in that same movie. We almost appear to be an exercise of futility at some points, but go ahead and underestimate us. Laugh at us. Mock us. We don’t give a damn, because we WILL beat your brains in. I think it was Poseur who best compared Les Miles to Mickey O’neil of “Snatch” saying something along the lines of, “He’s a gypsy bare-knuckle boxing champion who, at any given moment, is capable of knocking you the fuck out.” Love it.

This is the time when we all need to let the players, coaches, etc, know how extremely proud we are of OUR program. Damn straight. GEAUX TIGERS!!!

Only means he’s watched some film on Sean Peyton. Peyton is the only other coach I can think of that has run a reverse on 4th & 1 (or short).

amazing when I saw D-Lo coming around.

There’s a great interview out there with John Chavis where he calls Les a “genius at football strategy.” He says he works at it and studies tendencies and knows all the statistics to the plays he calls… they aren’t just shots in the dark… being how Miles holds an Economics degree, is it really all that surprising that he would approach the game in a statistical manner?

Miles is routinely mocked for his “in game coaching failures”… perhaps he simply understands the game on a level that few others do? Maybe the decisions he make are actually statistically favorable, despite common misconceptions about the “right move”?