LSU coach Les Miles addresses fans at Baton Rouge Rotary Club Les Miles begins his opening remarks to the Baton Rouge Rotary Club (Trey Labat) Print By Trey Labat on July 30, 2014 at 2:07 PM, updated July 30, 2014 at 3:17 PM 0 LSU coach Les Miles addressed the Baton Rouge Rotary Club Wednesday afternoon in his last appearance before fall practice begins. Miles said the talk he gives to the Rotary Club is always his favorite of his appearance of the summer. "Because it's the last one," Miles joked. Miles entertained the crowd by joking about a recent family vacation to Austin before breaking down several football related items and fielding questions from the fans in attendance. LSU's defense will be fast, athletic according to Les Miles | Video Les Miles describes LSU's defense as fast, athletic group. The quarterback battle between sophomore Anthony Jennings and freshman Brandon Harris has been a hot topic among the LSU fan base since Harris clearly outplayed Jennings in the annual spring game. The competition between the two was addressed by Miles in both his opening statement and in many of the questions he took from the crowd. Miles said he will let the battle play out in camp until the last moment before making a decision and that he likes to wait to the last possible moment in order to give both players an opportunity. "I think you'll look forward to the competition between Jennings and Harris," Miles said. "Competition is the basis of good play." The two quarterbacks will get plenty of reps during fall practice, and Miles said he plans on separating the two between morning and afternoon practice so they can attempt to separate themselves. Recently at Southeastern Conference Media Days, Miles compared one of his other freshman, the highly touted Leonard Fournette, to Michael Jordan and Miles heaped more praise down on the chiseled tailback during his opening remarks. "Leonard Fournette is either the fastest or the second fastest guy on our team at 6-foot-1, 230 pounds," Miles said as he smirked. "He's going to get two A's in his summer classes and he's proved to be a quality young man." Leonard Fournette might be the fastest guy on the team | Video Les Miles describes the brewing quarterback battle and how Leonard Fournette might be the fastest player on the team. Fournette joins a backfield occupied by seniors Terrance Magee and Kenny Hilliard, with Magee being the more productive of the two last season. Miles complimented Magee on his team first attitude at SEC Media Days and when asked the question of who will receive the symbolic No. 18 jersey, Miles used many of the same qualities he's used to describe Magee in the past to paint the picture of the guy who typically gets the honor of wearing the jersey. "It's always been a guy who has embodied the program, worked hard, had a very quality outlook on team," Miles said. "Not necessarily the guy who's had everything go his way, but someone who has been there for the team." Miles also described what he deemed the long term plan LSU has in place for feeding and housing the various athletes of the program and making sure the student athletes are properly fed and taken care of. A new facility will be built where old Alex Box Stadium was that will double as high quality living quarters and eating facility for the athletes to get their meals at. "We try to feed them when and where they're hungry," Miles said. "This facility is my long term plan and it should be Joe Alleva's as well if it already isn't," Miles joked. Miles also had kind words for Alleva when describing his feelings of the recently renovated Tiger Stadium saying that Alleva did a great job "decorating the place." Once the public press conference was over, Miles addressed the media on the status of Jalen Mills, who was arrested earlier in the summer for allegedly striking a female. Miles said there was no update on Mills's status, but he was hearing positive things regarding the junior safety's status going forward. "It's a very unfortunate situation, somebody came to his apartment and pursued him and I just think it's unfortunate on both ends. We'll just have to see how it turns out," Miles said. LSU will begin fall practice on August 4 and the Tigers season will kick off on August 30 when they take on Wisconsin in Houston.
I never said he didn't have anything to do with LSU's success from 2000-2004, what I am saying is LSU was here long before him, and it'll be here long after, and Nick Saban's career was changed from mediocrity to stardom by LSU. I think Alabama has a lot to do with his current success. You wanna crown him, crown his ass, but what did he do when he didn't have the money or resources Alabama and LSU have? He was mediocre. He was mediocre in Miami too, in fact he was just as good an NFL coach as Cam Cameron was. So, LSU did more for Saban's career than Saban did for LSU's.
Not to mention that 07 USC team lost to a 4-8 Stanford team. And Georgia didn't even win their division, much less conference. Same thing with Alabama in 2011. Les sits all his starters in the SECCG and Alabama doesn't even make it, and shouldn't have been in that game anyway. So I agree with ya!!
Are you daft? They didn't win the national championship game! You have to finish in the top two. Georgia didn't. You are daft! See above. Since the advent of the BCS there is no such thing as a split national championship. The 2003 crystal football is in Baton Rouge, not half of it. So was the MacArthur trophy. USC came in third in the BCS point count. You can't win a national championship if you didn't play in the national championship game. All they won was 2 out of 11 polls. LSU won the other 9, got into the game and won it. You got nuthin, Bammer.
That's my point; why didn't Georgia or USC get an invitation to the title game? Or how about 1-loss Orange Bowl Champion Kansas? 2-loss LSU got the nod based on conference affiliation. It's a beauty pageant. The Associated Press has been around far, far longer than the BCS, and will be around now far after the BCS's demise. 2003 was a split; Southern California finished top-ranked in the AP Poll. Also.. not sure where the Bammer stuff is coming from.
Because they didn't earn enough BCS points. Look chief, the rules for the BCS were straightforward. It's about points based on a number of polls and computer rankings. Losses don't have shit to do with it, understand? So what? Since the advent of an accepted national championship process, the BCS and now the Playoff Championship, all polls are meaningless. The Opelika newspaper has a poll and Auburn wins it every year. Do they have a crystal football? Did they win the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME? It is sad and embarrassing for USC and their sycophants to claim half a championship they did not earn on the field. LSU owns the ENTIRE championship and we have the trophies to prove it.
