I absolutely despise the icing the kicker bullshit, and I especially hate it when done after/as the ball is snapped, allowing the kicker a "practice" kick. However, you're incorrect if you think Miles is the "only coach in the nation" who hasn't figured out not to do that. Urban Meyer lost a game at Florida that way, among others, in college and in the pros. It's absolutely stupid, but Miles doesn't own a monopoly on this. He was in a damned if you do/damned if you don't situation there. If he doesn't take time outs, and they win, people would be pissed. If he does the bone-headed "icing" nonsense, win OR lose (as it turns out), people would be pissed. No win in that scenario.
LSU needs to leave the "protecting a lead" mentality behind. Time to start extending leads so we don't have to sweat out a quarter or more of "lead protection."
I think what he is trying to say is step on a throat and twist instead of pulling back and playing not to lose.
Well, to be fair, CUMs miscue was like 5 years ago, and most coaches have changed their ways since then. Hopefully, Les learns from this.
I'm a Miles supporter. That doesn't mean I agree with everything he says or does. I don't see Les learning much of anything new or changing the way he coaches. What you see is what we got in my opinion.
I can promise you no one would give two shits if he only used one TO to ice the kicker instead of two and the kicker made it. We'd be focused on much bigger issues, like, losing. What people do care about however is a HEAD COACH being dumb as hell and allowing the opposition to get a free kick in on the last play of the game because he doesn't know how to call timeouts correctly. It really seems all the Miles supporters can do is hide behind MooU missing a FG allowing us to escape with a win. MooU hits that FG and sunshine pumpers couldn't say shit because even they aren't stupid enough to think our 2nd half gameplan was on any level acceptable.
