Tinker Town Tiger: What were we told about the ability of the LSU football team last year, LSU football fans? That LSU was a number 1 college football team in 2012. LSU offense was getting a shot in the arm from last year's poor offense that failed so badly in the 2011 BCS Crystal ball game.
Guess what! LSU offense was even worse. Ha ha ha lol lol lol. Has the LSU chain of command become like Nova Robotics. And we the LSU football fans become like Johnny 5, in the1986 TV show Short Circuit... http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Greater New Orleans
LSU's Les Miles reflects on Michigan memories of Jack Harbaugh
By
Rachel Whittaker, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Les Miles and Jack Harbaugh go back a long way, nearly 40 years. He saw the Harbaugh family coaching legacy take off.
LSU Coach Les Miles got to know former Michigan assistant Jack Harbaugh during his playing days as a Michigan offensive lineman from 1974-76. Chris Granger / NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
While the Harbaugh patriarch wasn't Miles' position coach at Michigan
in the 1974 and 1975 seasons, Miles learned invaluable lessons from the
Wolverines' secondary coach during his two years as a Michigan
offensive lineman.
Now that Harbaugh's two sons, Jim and John, will guide their teams into battle in Super Bowl 2013, Miles reflected on his time with Jack Harbaugh as a mentor.
"Jack was a great coach. He was a guy that everybody enjoyed," Miles said Monday morning after his appearance on the Dan Patrick Show. "He had a great fire to him. He really helped our secondary and did a masterful job."
Jack Harbaugh was part of legendary Michigan coach Bo Schembechler's 1970s staff, and Miles said those years playing for them shaped who he is as a modern-day coach.
“They were hard-working, they did the right things, they had integrity," Miles said. "Those were the best things that you use in everything you do."
LSU Coach Les Miles got to know former Michigan assistant Jack Harbaugh during his playing days as a Michigan offensive lineman from 1974-76. Chris Granger / NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Now that Harbaugh's two sons, Jim and John, will guide their teams into battle in Super Bowl 2013, Miles reflected on his time with Jack Harbaugh as a mentor.
"Jack was a great coach. He was a guy that everybody enjoyed," Miles said Monday morning after his appearance on the Dan Patrick Show. "He had a great fire to him. He really helped our secondary and did a masterful job."
Jack Harbaugh was part of legendary Michigan coach Bo Schembechler's 1970s staff, and Miles said those years playing for them shaped who he is as a modern-day coach.
“They were hard-working, they did the right things, they had integrity," Miles said. "Those were the best things that you use in everything you do."
Miles
graduated from Michigan in 1976 after Michigan's 16-6 loss in the Orange
Bowl against Oklahoma. Jack Harbaugh left Michigan in 1979, one year
before Miles joined the staff as an assistant coach. Miles also just
missed Jim Harbaugh's Michigan playing career, which spanned from
1982-86 while Miles was at Colorado.
But Miles recalled Jim's unforgettable impact on Jack's teams at Western Kentucky, where Jim went full steam ahead by his father's side as an unpaid assistant when the Hilltoppers program was in dire straits in the early 1990s. Miles said that determination stemmed from Jack and called the Harbaughs "a quality family."
“There’s a lot of very fond thoughts when you consider the relationship with the Harbaugh family," Miles said. "I have now and then run into John professionally by phone. I know Jack has to be enjoying the fact that his two sons are now coaching in the Super Bowl."
But Miles recalled Jim's unforgettable impact on Jack's teams at Western Kentucky, where Jim went full steam ahead by his father's side as an unpaid assistant when the Hilltoppers program was in dire straits in the early 1990s. Miles said that determination stemmed from Jack and called the Harbaughs "a quality family."
“There’s a lot of very fond thoughts when you consider the relationship with the Harbaugh family," Miles said. "I have now and then run into John professionally by phone. I know Jack has to be enjoying the fact that his two sons are now coaching in the Super Bowl."
That
professional relationship with John Harbaugh extends back to his time
as a special teams coordinator with the Philadelphia Eagles from
1998-2006. Miles praised the elder Harbaugh son's skills in that facet
of the game, even visiting with him at LSU.
"I invited him (to LSU) and we talked special teams for a couple of days," Miles said. "He really did a great job in his special teams."
"I invited him (to LSU) and we talked special teams for a couple of days," Miles said. "He really did a great job in his special teams."
As for
Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday, Miles said he'll probably attend, but he's
not taking sides between Jim Harbaugh's 49ers and John Harbaugh's
Ravens.
“I think it’s gonna be teams and players, I don’t think it’s gonna be (focused on) coaches," Miles said. "Honestly, I’d hate to predict. I'm rooting for the Harbaughs."
“I think it’s gonna be teams and players, I don’t think it’s gonna be (focused on) coaches," Miles said. "Honestly, I’d hate to predict. I'm rooting for the Harbaughs."
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Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Inductee: Tommy Hodson
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Miles’ contract amendent to go before Board
Coach’s 4.3M salary over next seven years up for approval next Friday
Tiger Rag News Services
An amendment that would extend the contract of LSU head football coach Les Miles and increase his annual compensation will be presented to the LSU Board of Supervisors on February 1, it was announced Thursday by Joe Alleva, Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics.
“Les Miles is one of the most successful coaches in America and he has the LSU program in position to compete for championships each and every year in the most dominant football conference in the country,” Alleva said. “He recruits at an elite level, his players graduate and he is a respected member of the community. We are proud he will lead the LSU football program for the long-term future.”
In the period since 2005 when he became head coach, LSU has the most overall victories of any team in the powerful Southeastern Conference. Miles’ overall winning percentage of .802 is the fifth best mark in the history of the SEC.
A total of 167 players have received their college degrees under Miles’ watch and LSU has posted the second highest Graduation Success Rate in the SEC, trailing only Vanderbilt, each of the last two years.
Miles will receive annual compensation of $4.3 million per year for seven years under the terms of the new contract amendment, an adjustment to Miles’ existing contract that pays him $3.751 million annually and was due to expire in December of 2017. The new amendment was agreed upon in principle in December. The amendment would be effective on January 1, 2013 and extend to December 31, 2019.
Miles’ annual compensation includes base salary and other compensation such as Tiger Athletic Foundation, radio, television, internet and public speaking payments.
Additionally in the proposed new amendment, LSU will pay $150,000 each year of the agreement into an account owned and controlled by LSU. Miles can collect the funds in the account totaling $750,000 after serving the first five years of the contract. He can collect the final $300,000 in the account if he serves the final two years of the contract.
Since becoming LSU’s head coach in 2005, he has become the second-winningest coach in school history with a record of 85-21, trailing only Hall of Fame coach Charles McClendon in total victories. He has led the Tigers to three Southeastern Conference Western Division titles, two SEC championships and the 2007 BCS National Championship. The Tigers have finished in the top five in the nation four times under his leadership and posted the only perfect 13-0 regular season in school history in 2011.
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Brent LeDoux on
January 24th, 2013 11:02 am
“extend to December 31, 2019.” HOLY SHITBALLS, Batman!
6 more years of total arrogance, pathetic offenses, no offensive scheme, undiscplined teams, unprepared teams, etc.
Les Miles is, undoubtedly, the LUCKIEST MAN in the history on mankind. Average coach = Super human salary for producing consistently bad offenses! -
Mark on
January 24th, 2013 2:22 pm
Brent I agree he is the luckiest man in the history of mankind. As he would say; I don’t always coach, but when I do, I coach at LSU. Stay stupid my friends.
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TigerGumbo on
January 24th, 2013 3:06 pm
http://live.wsj.com/video/
opinion-why-college-coaches- are-over-paid/66754BA4-A107- 421C-8E80-3DAD30742A57.html#!6 6754BA4-A107-421C-8E80-3DAD307 42A57
How about refusing to pay these guys that kind of money. And bring some sanity into our LSU business ethics again. Paying Les Miles 4.3 million dollars is insane.
And this guy can’t even coach?
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James C on
January 24th, 2013 11:05 pm
Glad for the Coach, Sorry for the fans.
What?! Still no offensive coordinator; well, cuz, can you believe that.
Looks like Boudreaux and Thibodeaux again next year!
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Gerry on
January 25th, 2013 9:49 am
Compare his results with ALL other coaches and, if you are truly an LSU fan, feel grateful to be so b/c most other schools would love these results - football and academic. And, don’t blame him for the super inflated salaries. He didn’t create the market, just enjoying the benefits of it.
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J C Dodson on
January 25th, 2013 10:01 am
Our coach is making $4.3 million to coach amateur athletics right? Give me a break. This guys was so arrogant and stubborn in the BCS game he cost his school a national championship. He moved Jarod Lee out of the starting position as soon as he got the opportunity because he had something personal on this kid and everybody knows it. Not a quality person and a horrible coach that backed into a national championship with a Saban coached team, (2) loses and a game at home. I understand the AD is not smart enough to recognize a fraud but the board of directions should be able to see through all this crap.
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Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame: Kevin Mawae
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Dandy Don's LSU Sports Report
Good morning, Tiger Fans,
LSU entertained six prospects this weekend, three of whom are already committed to LSU, and three who remain big targets for this year’s class. The three targets are Tashawn Bower, Eddie Jackson and Duke Riley. After speaking to my best source last night about the visits, I'm not ready to say that LSU leads for Bower or Jackson. Bower is still a soft commitment to Auburn and has an unofficial visit penciled in with them for this week. If he takes the visit, LSU is probably out of it for Bower. As for Jackson, my source tells me that the visit went well but that LSU still has some work to do to make him a Tiger. Jackson plans to be a music major and the fact that LSU has one of the best music programs in the nation can only help. As for Riley, I was told that his offer remains a greyshirt at this point, but that it could change if something opens. Same applies for Cethan Carter. The nation’s most highly ranked prospect, defensive end Robert
Nkemdichie, is still scheduled to visit LSU next weekend, and it will be interesting to see if he makes it to Baton Rouge after visiting Ole Miss this weekend. If he makes it to LSU’s campus, I’d say the Tigers still have a shot with him, although it's looking more certain that he will opt to join his brother at Ole Miss. Stay tuned, Tiger Fans... the final stretch could be interesting.
With National Signing Day quickly approaching, I want to remind all of you to mark your calendars and make plans to attend the annual Recruiting Bash next Wednesday. Click here for all the details. As usual, I will be there with a DandyDon.com booth and will passing out hardcopies of my list of Top LA Prospects for the Class of 2014. Every time I think about being there without Dad, I get a little emotional since that was a day we always looked forward to spending together. He always enjoyed meeting a lot of you there and putting faces with names, and I look forward to that as well. On a related note, a lot of you have asked me to add my photo to the header of this website, so that you could put a face with a name, and I plan on doing that this week.
Today I have continued revealing my list of Top Louisiana Prospects for 2014 by posting numbers 6-10. For the full list-in-progress, which currently includes numbers 6-50 and a brief description of each, please click here.
6. Laurence “Hootie” Jones (CB, 6'2", 215, Neville)
7. Gerald Willis (DE, 6'3", 265, Edna Karr)
8. Cameron Sims (WR, 6'3", 190, Ouachita)
9. Kenny Young (LB, 6'2", 205, John Curtis)
10. Will Clapp (OG, 6'4", 270, Brother Martin)
One more football tid-bit: Yesterday I mentioned that I needed info on how Russell Shepard and Lavar Edwards did in the senior bowl and I received reports from several of you, including the one shown in the comment below. Read more...http://www.dandydon.
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President questions safety of football
Updated: January 28, 2013, 1:29 AM ET
ESPN.com news services
President Obama Worried About Football Safety
President Barack Obama said he is concerned about the safety of football players, especially at the collegiate level.Tags: Barack Obama, Football
“Obama tells The New Republic that football fans are going to have to wrestle with the fact that the game will probably change over time to try to reduce the violence.You read some of these stories about college players who undergo some of these same problems with concussions and so forth and then have nothing to fall back on. That's something that I'd like to see the NCAA think about.
” -- President Barack Obama
The president says that some of those changes might make football, in his words, "a bit less exciting" but that it will be much better for players.
"And those of us who are fans maybe won't have to examine our consciences quite as much," he said.
The interview appears in the Feb. 11 issue of The New Republic.
Obama says he worries more about college players than those in the NFL because the pros have a union, are well-paid and are grown men.
"They can make some of these decisions on their own, and most of them are well-compensated for the violence they do to their bodies," Obama said of NFL players. "You read some of these stories about college players who undergo some of these same problems with concussions and so forth and then have nothing to fall back on. That's something that I'd like to see the NCAA think about."
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello responded Sunday: "We have no higher priority than player health and safety at all levels of the game."
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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Dandy Don's LSU Sports Report
With 11 days until National Signing Day, Coach Miles is busy putting the finished touches on this year’s recruiting class and will be entertaining two big targets this weekend. The two are Tashawn Bower, (DL, 6’5”, 250, Somerville, NJ) who is currently a soft commitment to Auburn, and Eddie Jackson (ATH, 6’1”, 180, Fort Lauderdale, FL). Jackson is a versatile athlete who is being recruited by LSU to fill the need for an additional safety in this year’s class. If any news breaks over the weekend, I’ll be sure to let you know.
Last but not least, I’d like to tip my hat to three former LSU football players who received honors yesterday. Kevin Minter, Eric Reid, and Josh Dwoackzyk were all named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. To be eligible for the honor, a student-athlete must have a grade point average of at least 3.0 or above for the preceding academic year or a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0. Dwoackzyk was also awarded the Golden Torch Award by the Louisiana High School Athletic Association. The award recognizes a former high school student-athlete who serves as a role model for today’s student-athletes, and who went on to participate in athletics at the collegiate level. I'm really happy for Dworackzyk and think he’s very deserving of the honor. Read more...http://www.dandydon.
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FISCHER: Outside the Box
NCAA finally does something right
By RICHARD FISCHER
Tiger Rag Associate Editor
Tiger Rag was happy to feature a retrospective on great LSU men’s basketball coach Dale Brown in our most recent edition.
So isn’t it a little ironic that mere hours before the magazine was set to hit the presses featuring a coach who spent the better part of his career fighting to deregulate the NCAA rule book because it “legislated against human decency,” the NCAA announced the streamlining of said rule book?
Some things just fall into place a little too perfectly.
One of my favorite (of many) quotes from LSU’s legendary headman goes as follows: “You can write the Ten Commandments on a single sheet of paper, but the NCAA rule book is this thick,” he has said on many occasions as he holds his thumb and index finger as far apart as he could stretch.
It’s an obvious but significant flaw that has made the vast majority of the NCAA’s minor rules all but unfollowable by players and coaches, uncatchable by the investigations office and therefore unenforceable by the organization.
This led to far too much money and resources being wasted on attempting to catch drivers who failed to change lanes with a signal while bank robbers would go free.
The NCAA had been blind and hypocritical to the changing landscape of college athletics for far too long.
Until Saturday.
Credit to Mark Emmert and the NCAA Directors for taking the first of what will hopefully be many steps toward fixing the most broken business model in our free enterprise society today.
According to Emmert (quoted by the Associated Press), the changes will give schools more responsibility and flexibility and “focus the rules on those things that are real threats to integrity of sport rather than things that are mostly annoying.”
Here’s a few bullet points of the changes that have been agreed upon on the final day of the NCAA convention, according to the Associated Press.
- Student-athletes will be able to accept up to $300 per year beyond normal expenses to attend non-scholastic events.
- Student-athletes can receive an undefined amount of money to help offset expenses associated with practices and competition with national teams, including tryouts.
- Schools can provide normal expenses, including travel, for athletes representing the school at events such as goodwill tours and media appearances.
- Schools, conferences or the NCAA can pay for medical and related expenses.
- There will no longer be restrictions on how recruits can be contacted or how often they can be contacted.
- Elimination of recruiting coordination rules that must be performed only by a head or assistant coach, limits of how many coaches can be recruiting off-campus at any one time and restrictions on what printed materials can be sent to recruits.
- Deregulation of rules on camp and clinic employment for college athletes and recruits and allow senior prep players to participate in camps and clinics.
All of those changes are obvious and necessary. It seems ridiculous that the NCAA even legislated against them for as long as it did. I mean, really? An athlete couldn’t ride in the same car as his or her coach to a media appearance? If a player got injured representing a school, the school had limits to how much it could pay for medical expenses? Really? Those are just a couple of the shams the NCAA used to hide behind in the high and mighty name of keeping these kids amateur.
But the key words there are used to, and although the NCAA will be crushed for taking far too long to make these changes - albeit deservedly so - I’m an eternal optimist and will look at Saturday as a great success and the beginning of a new era.
It may be just one step, and I know it’s a cliché, but no marathon can be completed without the first step.
Common sense hadn’t been so common when it came to the NCAA. But maybe we’re starting to see a change within the organization under Emmert’s leadership. It’s still light years away from where it needs to be, and it still criminalizes far too much legal activity, but small victories should be celebrated. And I hope that a generation from now we’ll look back at Jan. 19, 2013 as the day that the revolution in NCAA renovation all began.
Richard Fischer is the associate editor of Tiger Rag Magazine covering football and baseball. He is a graduate of LSU Journalism. Reach him at richard@tigerrag.com.
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Houston Nutt gets $4.35M lump sum
Updated: January 26, 2013, 7:52 PM ET
Associated Press
Nutt was fired after the 2011 season with about $6 million remaining on his contract. Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork said on Saturday in a statement that the school's agreement with Nutt happened last month, and the one-time payment would save the athletic department about $550,000.
Bjork said the agreement was a "win-win for everyone and both of us can now move ahead." He said the money came from the school's private athletic foundation.
Nutt coached for four seasons at Ole Miss, leading the program to back-to-back Cotton Bowl wins in 2008 and 2009 before slumping to a 2-10 record in his final season.
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College Football Nation Blog
Former Tennessee coach Derek Dooley didn’t stay unemployed for long.
He’s taken a job with the Dallas Cowboys as their receivers coach. Obviously, Dooley won’t make the kind of money he did as the Vols’ head coach ($2 million per year), but he’s also not hurting for dough. He walked away from Tennessee with a $5 million buyout.
The money that SEC schools have paid out to coaches just to go away over the past six years is staggering.
Ole Miss just recently settled with former coach Houston Nutt and paid Nutt a lump sum of $4.35 million to complete its remaining financial obligation to Nutt, who had a $6 million buyout payable over five years when he was fired toward the end of the 2011 season.
Ole Miss saved $500,000 by negotiating the $4.35 million lump sum with Nutt.
If you go back to the end of the 2007 season when Nutt received a $3.5 million settlement after he and Arkansas parted ways, SEC schools have doled out a staggering $38.65 million in buyouts.
That’s right, nearly $40 million for coaches not to coach.
And that’s just the head coaches.
Granted, just about all of these settlements were payable in installments that were spread out over several years.
Still …
Here’s a rundown:
------------------------------He’s taken a job with the Dallas Cowboys as their receivers coach. Obviously, Dooley won’t make the kind of money he did as the Vols’ head coach ($2 million per year), but he’s also not hurting for dough. He walked away from Tennessee with a $5 million buyout.
The money that SEC schools have paid out to coaches just to go away over the past six years is staggering.
Ole Miss just recently settled with former coach Houston Nutt and paid Nutt a lump sum of $4.35 million to complete its remaining financial obligation to Nutt, who had a $6 million buyout payable over five years when he was fired toward the end of the 2011 season.
Ole Miss saved $500,000 by negotiating the $4.35 million lump sum with Nutt.
If you go back to the end of the 2007 season when Nutt received a $3.5 million settlement after he and Arkansas parted ways, SEC schools have doled out a staggering $38.65 million in buyouts.
That’s right, nearly $40 million for coaches not to coach.
And that’s just the head coaches.
Granted, just about all of these settlements were payable in installments that were spread out over several years.
Still …
Here’s a rundown:
- Houston Nutt, Arkansas (2007) -- $3.5 million
- Sylvester Croom, Mississippi State (2008) -- $3.5 million
- Phillip Fulmer, Tennessee (2008) -- $6 million
- Tommy Tuberville, Auburn (2008) -- $5.1 million
- Houston Nutt, Ole Miss (2011) -- $5.5 million
- Gene Chizik, Auburn (2012) -- $7.5 million
- Derek Dooley, Tennessee (2012) -- $5 million
- Joker Phillips, Kentucky (2012) -- $2.55 million
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