Les Miles’ Huge Ego Finally Gets The Best Of Him
I love watching SEC football, but I must admit I can’t stand LSU. The main reason, in fact I think the only real reason, is because of Les Miles, the head coach. I don’t think I can count the number of times I’ve watched LSU get totally outplayed throughout the duration of a game only to end up winning on some combination of luck, luck, and dumb luck. However, even this is okay, I guess. But then they interview coach Miles at the end of the game, and he proceeds to explain just what an incredible football team they are, and how they had everything totally in control and that things worked out exactly like he planned it.
So, pretty much every time LSU loses, I’m happy about it. That included last weekend’s game with Ole Miss. Seeing Ole Miss win the game was excellent. The fact that, by winning, Ole Miss supplanted LSU as the second-ranked team in the SEC West was even better. But the best of all was watching LSU completely fail to call their final timeout in a timely fashion, wasting some ten to twelve precious seconds off the clock, only to actually get a first down on 4th and 26 with one second remaining on the clock, and then cap it off by squandering their chance at victory by trying to spike the ball on what would obviously be the final play of the game.
That’s exactly what they did. Apparently, Les Miles’ ego is so enormous that he thinks the laws of physics and even the nature of time itself does not apply to him or his team. You can see him after the game complaining that his play to spike the ball took the final second off the clock, but he should have nobody to blame but his own arrogant self.
He obviously disagrees, though. In the post-game press conference, he was more than happy to pin the loss squarely upon the shoulders of his sophomore quarterback, even though this video quite clearly shows Miles frantically calling for the spike and the quarterback incredulously and blindly following orders.
Hey LSU, I’d be happy to come and coach the team instead. You could pay me a much lower salary than his $3.75 million, and I can almost assure you I wouldn’t be so boneheaded as to let that opportunity pass away without at least trying for victory, nor would I be so low as to try to defer blame away from myself and pin it upon a player.
I couldn’t be more pleased. It’s about time he had to pay for his arrogance.
