No, I am just making a fool out of a lame bammer poser. Nobody else tries to discredit LSU's national championships.
BOT: More on Les... Which SEC coach is most influential in social media? Radi Nabulsi - UGA Insider 12:25 p.m. EDT June 25, 2014 What would sports writers do without social media? How did we ever live without it? Did we actually used to work for a living? Luckily the dark ages of not having controversial tweets or bulletin-board material posted on Facebook are far behind us. Social media is not only wonderful for being snarky and ill-mannered, it can also be useful. In fact, college football coaches use the direct message functions to converse with recruits on a daily basis, bypassing a NCAA rule that prohibits the coaches from sending texts to prospects. Yes, it is against the rules to text a high school player, but a coach can talk to him non-stop on Twitter or Facebook. So which coaches are using social media to their advantage? There is no way to objectively measure the effectiveness when it comes to team management or recruiting. However, we can measure how much influence college coaches and their schools have in the social media world. Enter Klout. Klout is a company based in San Francisco that measures online social influence. The Klout app and website use social media analytics to determine a Klout score. From the Klout website: "The Klout Score is a number between 1-100 that represents your influence. The more influential you are, the higher your Klout Score." So who has the highest Klout score among coaches in the SEC? Coach / Klout Score / Followers / Number of tweets / Twitter account Les Miles / 81 / 133K / 727 / @LSUCoachMiles Hugh Freeze / 68 / 69.3K / 6150 / @CoachHughFreeze Kevin Sumlin / 68 / 59.2K 2024 / @CoachSumlin Gus Malzahn / 65 / 84K / 287 / @CoachGusMalzahn Bret Beliema / 65 / 85.6K / 1723 / @BretBielema Butch Jones / 65 / 120K / 4908 / @UTCoachJones Mark Richt / 64 / 113K / 442 / @MarkRicht Will Muschamp / 63 / 55.3K / 412 / @CoachWMuschamp Dan Mullen / 63 / 54.9K / 1998 / @CoachDanMullen Gary Pinkel / 62 / 48.3K / 3626 / @GaryPinkel Mark Stoops / 59 / 66.7K / 682 / @UKCoachStoops Derek Mason / 58 / 12.8K / 87 / @CoachDerekMason The Mad Hatter of Baton Rouge leaves his colleagues behind when it comes to social influence. Must be all the grass he eats.
This proves my earlier assertion that you may have not known who he was, but the collegiate football community did. "No wins against anyone with any importance?" Anytime a Michigan State team beats Notre Dame or Ohio State it's of importance. Both teams had down seasons in '99 so let's set them aside. We can't set aside Sparty beating Florida, or Penn State, or Illinois—all finishing in the top 25 in the AP in '99. Neither can we set aside Sparty's win against a top 10 Michigan. In fact, MSU beating a top 10 Michigan stands by itself.
Nonsense? You've just affirmed what I was saying. A "nobody" coach and an up and coming coach are two different things.
You're too busy worrying that we're bashing Saban and saying he's a bad coach. He's not, and we're not. I hate the guy but I can admit he flat out is a great coach. I didn't like him at LSU though, always seemed pissed off and reminded me of some of my asshole coaches. But was Saban a superstar coach that could demand money before LSU? No ... LSU made that for him. The talent and facilities he had access to here? It helped let him prove what we already knew at LSU, that he was a great coach. By the same token his success here obviously did help us, we're just saying not as much as the other way around.
Here's the thing, red. My reasoning applies to Miles as well. Now, it was a bit of a different situation with Miles because he'd thrown his hat in the ring for the Bama job twice. I knew who he was partially based on that. College football fans knew who he was due to the back-to-back wins over OU in '01-'02. (Moreso because that win in '01 when OU was coming off their BCSNC and were ranked in the top 5 going into the game—a game in Norman to top it off.) It was that 2001 win that made me take notice.
