Les Miles

BATON ROUGE — LSU's two new assistant football coaches, Frank Wilson and Billy Gonzales, were unable to participate in the Tigers' first bowl practice Monday or take part in any meetings as head coach Les Miles' staff is over the limit of nine coaches.  

Filed under: Alabama, Cincinnati, Nebraska, Pittsburgh, TexasA couple of weeks ago, Les Miles made one of the dumbest coaching decisions at the end of a game that any of us had ever seen. I wrote about that and called Miles an idiot. If you're an LSU fan you still see the end of that Ole Miss game in your nightmares. Given that a head coach is paid millions of dollars for his judgment, I thought the ridicule was much deserved. But then Mack...  

In the recently released movie "The Blind Side" about former Ole Miss left tackle Michael Oher, his guardian explains to him that “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” Lord Alfred Tennyson's classic poem is in reality about the Rebels' rivalry game against LSU, now known as the Magnolia Bowl.   The guardian explains that the cavalry, in a display of courage and unity, charges into a heavily fortified valley at the behest of their flawed but...  

LSU coach Les Miles says he understands the criticism and accepts the blame for a series of gaffes that resulted in the 17th-ranked Tigers dropping a 25-23 decision to Ole Miss.  

(This article is essentially Part 2 to this piece about the Ole Miss debacle)   If the game against Ole Miss did one thing for Tiger fans it’s this: Their real feelings for Les Miles came out.   There are basically three camps:   1) Miles Haters This camp is broken up into two sub-groups: A) Those who have always been vocal and are now just louder because of perceived vindication. They are unable to give credit to Miles for anything. B...  

BATON ROUGE -- Saved by the north goal posts. Michael DeMocker / The Times-Picayune LSU safety Chad Jones makes the call as Arkansas' field-goal attempt to tie the game in overtime goes wide right, giving the Tigers a 33-30 victory Saturday night in ...  

The Southeastern Conference sticks together. Spend an entire holiday season attending West Coast bowl games, and you'd never hear a Pac-10 pride chant. Yet the most football-crazed, rivalry-driven, animosity-defined conference in all of college athletics shares success with a conciliatory "S-E-C! S-E-C!" Go figure. However, the Mad Hatter and his Bayou Bengals could seriously put that loyalty to the test if they cost the Southeastern...  

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BATON ROUGE - In his last remarks before LSU plays Ole Miss this Saturday in Oxford, Miss., Tigers Coach Les Miles said the starters on offense who missed the last game are expected to be ready for the Rebels. Michael DeMocker/The Times-Picayune ...  

Are you ready to read? Are you sure? Okay, let's do this.   The Game LSU's 25-23 loss to Ole Miss at Oxford has set the LSU fanbase ablaze. The focus of their fire is their head coach Les Miles. So much has been said in two days after the game. I'll try to go into as much detail as I can. This was not a coaching masterpiece by old Les. He's seen better days. That's an understatement of gross proportions. Here are some key points and my...  

BATON ROUGE — Les Miles is back in his comfort zone. It's beginning to look a lot like bowl season, and this is Miles' time of year. Give him two weeks off and two weeks of practice, and he'll ruin an opponent's New Years. Les Miles is not a minute man. Check the Ole Miss game for that and a few others. Les Miles is a month man. Check his bowl scoreboard. It's Miles 157, Opponents 44. That's an average final score of 39-11. And he doesn't care...  

Les Miles, the bumbling coach at LSU, in his final ballot of the season, ranked unbeaten Cincinnati 8th and 2-loss Ohio State 5th. Jim Tressel, Ohio State’s coach, voted Florida 3rd, ahead of TCU, Cincinnati, and Boise State. Can someone tell us why the Coaches’ poll is still 1/3 of the BCS formula? * Nine coaches [...]  

I am not an LSU Tigers football fan. I am not an Ole Miss Rebels football fan. Therefore, I am not going to write a 10-page feature story on a game between these two schools. But I am a college football fan, and I watched the game between LSU and Ole Miss last night. Simply put, it was definitely a crazy finish. But, in the end, it was Les Miles that lost the Tigers a close 25-23 game, and in turn lost them a double-digit win regular season of...  

The ending to Saturday's LSU-Ole Miss game is no doubt that will be talked about for a while. At issue is whether LSU coach Les Miles called for his team to spike the ball with one second left on the clock, allowing the clock to run out an the game to end. The LSU last-second...read more  

The Arkansas-LSU game is intriguing on so many levels. How will Les Miles and LSU bounce back from last week's disastrous loss to Ole Miss? Can the Tigers' stop Ryan Mallett? Get inside for more of what our experts will be keeping an eye on this weekend.