Posted on 09/25/2016 4:44:29 AM PDT by C19fan
It took one game in the 2016 season for the feel-good period following Les Miles’s survival of an attempted coup to end. It took four games for the LSU head coach’s approval rating to dip so low that speculation about Miles’s future will loom over the rest of the Tigers’ games.
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La Tech lost to mighty Middle Tennessee St last night. LOL
An illegal shift does not stop the play the same way a false start does.
Also, with a running clock and less than two minutes to go, a false start penalty requires a 10-second run-off of the clock, which would have ended the game.
Miles earned his hot seat last night.
Just as that “credit card advertisement from Walton and Johnson Radio Show” said:
‘Les Miles, zero points.’
I agree.
I covered a political event several years ago for my newsblog and ran into the Prez there. Told him a Tech diploma was good for nothing but a job. His comment was he would have to write that one down and remember it.
You have to know, though, there is a sizeable contingent of Tech alum and fans who pine for an all-consuming football powerhouse, to the exclusion of academics, or anything else.
IMHO, intercollegiate athletics should be done away with, so higher ed can focus on its primary mission - educating future productive, working citizens.
Can you say Coach Herman?
Did you see the goal line stand by Texas A&M vs Arkansas? Now that was impressive.
Didn’t know who Tech played. Don’t keep up with it, never have, and likely never will. I think I’ve been to one or two Tech football games in my lifetime, and one (1) LSU game. Not one (none) Saints game.
We citizens of the US have a pathological focus on Bread and Circuses that would be better directed toward helping make self-government work.
But then, I’m a misfit, a wierdo, a nut. I don’t follow the crowd.
That’s only my opinion, tho.
Another JV showing by them.
Yup.
That was the one (in particular) that I was thinking about. (confused with the Auburn game)
WOW. What a final ONE SECOND ending to a game.
My husband replayed it 2-3 times . . . then frame by frame as LSU tried to snap the ball as the clock read OO:OO.
And to think son stayed home at his apartment to study vs. going to the game . . . he is my never ever leave a game early sports fan kid so this was his kinda game/win.
I am sad that somehow somebody set fire to the TP on one of the Auburn new Oak trees @ Toomer’s Corner.
WAR EAGLE~!!!!!
Hope this wasn’t an LSU fan, but it might have been:
http://www.businessinsider.com/auburn-university-toomers-corner-oak-trees-set-on-fire-2016-9
Also, the refs blew the call. Clock was to start on the snap. LSU ‘won’... sort of like OK State did a few weeks back. Apology but we still get the L:
b. The 10-second rule does not apply if the game clock is not running
when the foul occurs or if the foul does not cause the game clock to
stop immediately (e.g., illegal formation).
c. After the penalty is administered, if there is a 10-second runoff, the
game clock starts on the referee’s signal. If there is no 10-second runoff,
the game clock starts on the snap.
McElwain can join Miles.
What, the honeymoon is already over in Columbia?!?!?!?!
It's not like I didn't warn them.
Terrible clock management for LSU. No one was getting out of bounds to stop the clock, no sense of urgency to get the ball snapped!
Don’t they run time off the clock if there is an offensive penalty in the last minute?
Looks like it’s a done deal.
Les has been fired as of this afternoon. As a college football fan (mostly an objective observer), I can’t say I was surprised. His failure to adapt to the passing game was certainly part of the deal. He had the best recruits but the one dimensional adherence to the running game meant that the best receivers rarely got a chance to shine. QB development was spotty. And if you noticed last night, there was a decided lack of urgency on the part of the offense. Adios Les.
When even Alabama now plays much more up-temple football, now wonder why LSU fired Les Miles.
Ever see why LSU fans smell like corn dogs?
http://trackemtigers.com/the-telling-of-the-lsu-corn-dog-story-2/
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