Sunday, November 22, 2009

LSU - Ole Miss

Ridiculous ending to a game that sent the nation media on a search for the short bus that Miles left Michigan with.

Before I comment more, like Alabama two weeks ago, Ole Miss did not deserve to lose this game and outplayed LSU for all but 2 minutes.

The positive:
1. Maybe this is the second nail in the coffin for Miles.

There is no excuse for a team with LSU skill players to be out played each time by teams with equal or less talented players. No disrespect to the "Hottie Toddy" fans, but LSU has many more talented players.

2. Ole Miss looked good for the second week in a row, maybe they will represent well in the bowl game. Even though, Snead still looks like he is regressing.

3. LSU players do not quit, no matter how unprepared they are for games.

The Rant:
1, Miles is an idiot and made matters worse with his post game comments.
During his press conference:
1. Deflected- Miles denied knowing why the ball was spiked. "I will find out"
2. Blamed others again- Said he told the assistants to run the ball with 1 minute to go.
3. Excuse-Blamed the missed time out with 26 seconds on miscommunication with refs.

Result
1. Video shows Miles signaling spike it to Jefferson. The offense had another play called and were ready to go, Trip WR's to right 1 one left.
The coach confused Jefferson and signaled him to spike it.
2. He admitted he let the 3 passes in a row be called, even after QB was nearly sacked on the 1st down
3. The missed TO is just as bad as his choking under pressure with the spike.

Some players supposedly reported that the fg unit was ready and Miles stopped them from going on the field. I could forgive him for this, if his lack of IQ on signaling spike with 1 second left. Maybe the fg team would have been late, who knows, but I do know the spike is the dumbest play since Booty threw a interception to UAB when forgetting the route was from his high school team 5 years earlier.

After listening to Verne Lundquist for 40 years, I am pretty sure that was the first time I heard him literally screaming at a coach for being unprepared.
I can stil hear him screaming "OH MY GOSH, What are they doing! What are they doing, should have run the fg team, Holy Cow, OH MY GOSH!"

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