He wants to keep coaching the team that proved to be the best team in the toughest conference in the nation. Smart man.
ON-FIELD PRE-GAME LSU SPORTS RADIO NETWORK INTERVIEW
Les Miles: “Absolutely. I’m staying at LSU. This is a place I want to be. This is a place my family is very comforatable. This school has everything. It has an opportunity at victory and competing at the highest level. Personally, professionally, socially, we have friends here. I respect the young men that I coach. Anybody that I have signed, when I tell them I am going to be here, I was sincere. I’m the head coach at LSU and I’m going to be the head coach at LSU.”
LSU fans don’t remember what it is like to have a coach who has integrity. Now with a SEC trophy in the case and the Saban-grief behind him, lets get on about the business of winning some national championships.
2007 = The Year LSU Lost No Games in Regulation But Found that 3OT Really Stinks!
In a show of class, Pelini was awarded the game ball in the locker room following a 21-14 LSU win over Tennessee. Pelini will become the head coach of Nebraska. Maybe he can bring some strength to the Big 12.
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Ask some folks in Stillwater what they think about Miles’ definitive pronouncement. “Stays”? Maybe, but don’t bet the homestead on it just yet…
Headed to the Super Dome!
The SEC is a fine football conference, and perhaps the best one overall over the last decade.
But it’s not obviously the strongest conference this season. An SEC division winner, Tennessee, was beat by a California team that 3-5 in the Pac-10. Alabama at 4-4 in the SEC loss to Florida St. who was 4-4 in the ACC. Auburn at 5-3 in the SEC loss to South Florida who was 4-3 in the Big East. Yes, the SEC also had some good non-conference games, such as LSU’s win over Virginia Tech.
Overall the SEC was 7-7 in games against teams from other BCS conferences. That’s the mark of an average BCS conference. With Alabama’s loss to Lou-Monroe the league even has a loss as embarrassing than Michigan’s loss to Appalachian St.
That was a great game! It could have gone either way, but both teams stuck in there and ultimately, it was LSU’s defense that won the game. It really could have been a blowout for the Tigers.
How many times did the offense get into scoring range only to be denied a touchdown?
People in Michigan are a bit bitter about Le$ Mile$ being shown the money and dissing his alma mater. I guess instead of his heart bleeding true for the maize and blue, it bleeds a solid green.
Here are some interesting BCS championship game stats…..
Conferences and records that have appeared or will appear in the BCS Championship game:
Big12 – 5 teams – Record:2-3
SEC- 4 teams- Record:3-0 with 1 to play
ACC- 3 teams- Record: 1-1 with 1 to play
Big East- 3 teams- Record: 1-2
Pac 10- 2 Teams- Record: 1-1
This is Ohio State’s third time to appear in the game and LSU’s second. Florida State has appeared three times, Oklahoma three times, USC twice, Miami twice, Florida once, Tennessee once, Texas once, Virginia Tech once and Nebraska once.
And another thing, MEL:
Five out of the 10 toughest SOS (strength of schedule) teams this year were in the SEC.
It’s a little annoying to me as a Big 12 fan that a Big 12 champ who wants to win it all will often have to play a road game. See 2004 – OU vs LSU in the Sugar Bowl. Hmmm. See 2006 – Texas vs USC in the Rose Bowl. Double hmmm.
Or 2008 – Ohio St at LSU for the BCS Nat’l Championship.
I know, there’s no conspiracy. Just an observation.
SEC fans like to talk about the championship game, especially last season’s. Why not mention the SEC had two other match-ups with the Big 10 last season and lost both of them?
How most SoS are calculated – by opponent’s record and opponents’ opponents’ records produces a bogus stat. For instance, playing Appalachian St and Kansas would likely give you a higher SoS than playing Virginia Tech and Oklahoma. Sagarin’s SoS, based on ratings instead of the above mentioned actually has two SEC teams in the top ten for SoS (South Carolina 8th, Florida 9th).
And even if SEC schools did have tougher SoS’s, it fails to explain how they were merely average against other BCS conference schools.
Les Miles = Integrity
He could have used the whole Michigan thing as leverage for more money in his salary. He did not.
Yes. I repeat. He did not.
Let that sink in.
The only increases he got was extensions to the years on his contract and the bowl incentives are kicking in because he led the team to victory.
Integrity. In an age of sports when there is very little on the national level.