Was it you cgisclair ? :hihi: (excerpt from TigerRag) QUESTION: Coach, with this game coming right after Kentucky and another likely blowout coming after your past blowout … MILES: You don’t mind if I don’t buy your “likely blowout.” That’s just not something I can take very easily. QUESTION: I was going to say, at what point does it turn into practice on TV? At what point does the competition just stop being threatening? I mean, 21-0? 28-0? 35-0? Fourth quarter?” Miles let the question sink in and appeared to be growing angry but did not answer. At this point, LSU sports information director Michael Bonnette asked, “Who’s got another question?” Then Miles said, "I didn’t really understand it." And Bonnette said, "I don’t understand it either." Miles then calmy said, "I mean I understand what you’re saying – at some point in time you’re ahead. And when you’re ahead, that’s a good thing. And you know what, it’s never practice. I always like being ahead, and being ahead by a lot is not to be demeaned. And being ahead is what we try to do." Then Miles gradually grew angry and yelled the following words in bold. "And you only hope that this is a question that is just a simple question, and never would you like to come in on a Monday and say, 'Boy how about that question I asked?'" Miles said, then raised his voice considerably. "Because then EVERYONE would know that it was a DUMBER question the SECOND time you mentioned it!" Seconds later, Miles had calmed down completely and told the reporter, “Now I’m not mad at you. I’m just letting you know that you better prepare and you better prepare for each team individually and each team has strengths and weaknesses and you had best be prepared for their best shot." “They are not coming here for vacation. They’re not coming here to see Louisiana. They’re coming here to play their best football that they can muster, and we better play ours. That’s the only way you approach those games. And so, I apologize. No I understood what it meant. I just can’t buy it. And if you ever got to sit in these shorts or in these shoes, you'd not buy it either."
The teams LSU has beaten have a combined record of 11-28. Until we learn not to schedule only rent-a-win non-conference games (ULL, FS, Zona, & Tulane), he will get questions like this. I don't believe he is scheduling these game though, but Skip. Thank God next year we play VT. I think Tennessee has a good schedule with ND and Cal...
At the time we scheduled Fresno St and Arizona they were both pretty good programs. Heck, if you look at Virginia Tech, that is turning into a rent-a-win. They have no discipline and not much talent this year.
Exactly. Arizona, Arizona State and Fresno were good when they were put on the schedule. We just have bad luck of teams going south before they come to TS. If we would have gotten to play VT when the game was actually scheduled it would have been a good game. Again bad luck.
I don't unserstand how people either don't understand the rent a win or future scheduling. Always have and always will have rent a wins. It's one part of what makes college football work. Check out other teams shcedules with the same caliber of LSU and the schedules for rent wins look the same. That's why LSU doesn't go to Lafayette every other year to visit USL. We stay home get the gate and other monies, give them 600k and call it good. If your schedule doesn't look liket that. Then you are the rent a win. Then some of the teams we have a home and a home with fall off from previous years as some have stated. Pretty simple I thought. ND under TW was pityful and Cal doesn't impress me as a tuff team. We need to beat AU, Tenn, Fla, Bamma and win the SEC champ game. This year on the road. Now that is a tough schedule in itself. It would have been nice if 2 of these were at home but they ain't so the home schedule sucks and LSU should blow out these teams. PRoblem is we ain't winning on the road and champions do.
Part of a coach's job is to get the team ready to play each game. Part of that is to make sure they don't take opponents for granted. How many times have the Tigers gone against "rent-a-win" teams and lost? Remember Miami of Ohio? Questions like that work against Miles' efforts to get the team to take all competiton seriously. That's why he was upset with it. The big danger in a "rent-a-win" game is that we going into the game with the attitude that we have this win locked up. That's when you lose. LSU has done that more than once.
I don't have a problem with a rent a win or few. It is like a practice. ULL wil NEVER beat LSU EVER. But why not schedule a "powerhouse" or a team that will give us a good fight. Arizona and FS are decent teams at best, even last year we would have beat them. I would like to see LSU schedule a top 15 non-conference team a year.
