Here is a short video from Rivals on the debacle that occurred yesterday afternoon between LSU and Tennessee. Les Miles has used 8 of his lives and he by far is the only 5-0 coach I can think of who is on the hot-seat...ever. This flying by the seat of your pants style of play may work in the MAC or WAC but not in the SEC where we all know, "letting the boys play" is common. And more importantly, football is religion down South.
Tennessee have fought hard for a team with not too much talent who are clearly in a rebuilding stage (and can't add). LSU can't run/pass/trip over themselves for yards. The last minute of the game was chaos. Players running on and off the field all while the time is ticking down. For LSU fans I wish I could tell you this is uncommon. But seen with the Ole Miss game last year, Les Miles just doesn't learn. He'll need to soon or he will Geauxing to update his resume soon.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/What-s-worse-than-Les-Miles-clock-management-T?urn=ncaaf-274100
Sorry I couldn't figure out how to make the link clickable. It's worth a look nonetheless.
- KA
To critique Tennessee as a team with not much talent is about as accurate as making a statement that the BCS will be competitive for the BSCNC.
ReplyDeleteA cold hard fact: Any SEC team could beat any other NCAA conference champion on any given day.
I wouldn't say that Tennessee doesn't have talent, they obviously have players that were blue chip recruits, but they are rebuilding.
ReplyDeleteUT has played another conference's top team, Oregon, in Knoxville, the ducks won 48-13.
http://www.utsports.com/sports/m-footbl/recaps/091110aaa.html