Tinker Town Tiger:"Does it matter to you that Beyonc lip-sync her song at the 2013 president inauguration ceremony.?" And I feel like the LSU Athletic Director Joe Alleva, and head football coach Les Miles is simply full of bull. That they have been struggling to explain to us why the LSU college football program has slipped back into the SEC pack.
Now Alabama is the # 1 big time SEC football program. Just because Nick Saban has out recruited, and out coached Les Miles and the LSU football program coaching staff. I now feel like LSU is second place to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and I guess pretty soon, even South Carolina. So please quit the bull talk. Because I really now don't believe them, or you, that keep writing to the contrary. "That the guys running our LSU football program are good managers."
Les Miles has failed to make LSU the # 1 football program that we the LSU football fans wanted. Even after he had a head start on the rest of the SEC, back when he took over the LSU football team in 2005. Les Miles can't coach. And you know it. You guys are just selling a bunch of bull talk, and I am very tired of reading about it?
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Beyoncé Lip-Sync? Singer Reportedly Did Not Perform The National Anthem Live At Inauguration
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Beyoncé may have been lip-syncing at the inauguration.
“All music is pre-recorded for the ceremony because there are so many eventualities and conditions that day,” United States Marine Band rep Kristin DuBois told Page Six. “We performed, live, the band. But we received last-minute word that Beyonce was going to use the pre-recorded vocal track. Those were the instructions we were given. We don’t know what the reason why.”
The Washingtonian reports that "it was evident that the band wasn't actually playing during the song."
Earlier, Beyoncé posted a photo to her Instagram account of herself holding the sheet music to "The Star Spangled Banner" in a recording studio.
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LSU Coach Les Miles gets a raise and extension after interest from Arkansas
By
Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on November 28, 2012
LSU Coach Les Miles won't be calling the Hogs or become that Mad Hog Hatter. After a brief, and unofficial, courtship with Arkansas, Miles is staying at LSU and getting a raise and contract extension out of the deal, the school announced on Wednesday.
"Our conversations (with Arkansas) were very preliminary and fell short of any major, major interest," Miles said at a press conference. See video of press conference here.
"I can tell you I very much respect those Razorbacks and how they played in that last game, but I am an LSU head coach and will be and LSU coach as long as I can be."
Miles said he did speak with Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long, who worked in the Michigan athletic department for the eight years Miles was an assistant coach there. But he said the reports of being offered a five-year deal for $27.5 million were not true, nor did he speak with Dallas Cowboys owner and Arkansas alumnus Jerry Jones about the job. Read more...http://www.nola.com/
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LSU Football: 5 Ways Les Miles Needs to Change to Beat Alabama in 2013
By (Featured Columnist) on January 9, 2013
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For anyone who watched Monday's BCS National Championship Game,
it is clear that Alabama has cemented its spot as the cream of the crop
in college football today.
And if you happen to think for one second that Alabama is going anywhere anytime soon, think again.
Nick Saban's team is expected to return a ton of talent in 2013 and will likely be the No.1-ranked team in the nation heading into next season.
So what does that mean for Les Miles and his LSU team?
The Tigers are going to have to figure out a way to stop this dominant force that is Alabama if they plan to make a run at a national title in 2013. If that is going to happen, it all starts with head coach Les Miles and some serious changes that he is going to have to make sooner than later.
With that said, let's go ahead and break down five ways Les Miles needs to change if LSU is going to beat Alabama next season. Read more...http://bleacherreport.
And if you happen to think for one second that Alabama is going anywhere anytime soon, think again.
Nick Saban's team is expected to return a ton of talent in 2013 and will likely be the No.1-ranked team in the nation heading into next season.
So what does that mean for Les Miles and his LSU team?
The Tigers are going to have to figure out a way to stop this dominant force that is Alabama if they plan to make a run at a national title in 2013. If that is going to happen, it all starts with head coach Les Miles and some serious changes that he is going to have to make sooner than later.
With that said, let's go ahead and break down five ways Les Miles needs to change if LSU is going to beat Alabama next season. Read more...http://bleacherreport.
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GUILBEAU: SEC Behind the Scenes
Beyond all the spin, LSU’s mass exodus of underclassmen hurts program
By GLENN GUILBEAU
Tiger Rag Featured Columnist
BATON ROUGE - No matter how you look at the early departure of 10 underclassmen from the 2012 LSU football team, particularly the five not expected to go until the third round or later, it is not good news.
Yes, underclassmen not expected to get selected until the third round or later from all schools are going more and more because of the NFL’s new collective bargaining agreement that was enacted before the 2012 draft. And it is a sign of just how well LSU coach Les Miles has consistently recruited extremely well.
But there has been so much positive spin from Miles as well as from his many defenders and apologists that it often sounds like that it was a good and sensible thing for all of them to leave. Such a good thing that I’m surprised more of LSU’s juniors like Zach Mettenberger and Alfred Blue and Lamin Barrow and Craig Loston and Tahj Jones and Kadron Boone and James
Wright did not leave, too.
Some of the players left early because they need the money. Some of the players who stayed also need the money. If they’re that good, the money will be there next year. I understand Chris Faulk’s concern about a second injury. He has the best argument of the LSU juniors not expected to go in the first two rounds. But if everyone used that argument, no one would stay in college.
I wonder if the agents had enough time to get to LSU’s juniors who stayed. The reasons for those to leave would have made no less sense than they did for Faulk and Michael Ford and Spencer Ware and Tharold Simon and Brad Wing. Those are the five not expected to go until the third round at the most likely earliest and probably more like the fifth for Ford and Wing.
No, the sky has not fallen, but at the same time the sun is also not as bright for the LSU program as it could have been had some of these players stayed.
I recently read how the 10 departures - 11 if you count Tyrann Mathieu (which I don’t because he never played in the 2012 season) - was not such a bad thing because when those players were recruited and signed they were considered probabilities to enter the NFL Draft a year early. True, but if every junior that was capable of getting drafted in rounds three through seven left, then there would barely any juniors in all of college football.
Just because you can does not mean you should. Sometimes better things come to those who wait and get better and get smarter. Ford, Simon and Faulk clearly had room to improve before entering the NFL. Ford could have gotten more playing time in the 2013 season with Ware gone. Simon possibly could have learned how to cover better and not have his last game be that How Not-To-Cover guide he displayed against Clemson. Faulk needed to show in pre-NFL games that he is healthy again and put forth some game film from something beyond 2011.
Ware and Simon, by the way, could also clean their spotty disciplinary records with another year of good behavior.
In addition, there is no guarantee Ford, Simon and Faulk will not get cut, regardless of what their agent may have said. NFL front offices lose far less sweat over cutting guys picked in the last five rounds than the first two.
Some of these middle-to-late-round-projected LSU guys are leaving partly because they hate school. NFL GMs, coaches and personnel gurus have been frowning on this in recent decades and years more than ever. If you don’t want to learn, are too lazy to try to learn or have other issues learning, you’re in trouble in today’s NFL. College is the best place to find the answers to those issues. Read more...http://www.tigerrag.
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TigerGumbo on January 23rd, 2013 8:51 am
I feel like the LSU Athletic Director Joe Alleva, and head football coach Les Miles is simply full of bull. That they have been struggling to explain to us why the LSU college football program has slipped back into the SEC pack. Now Alabama is the # 1 big time SEC football program. Just because Nick Saban has out recruited, and out coached Les Miles and the LSU football program coaching staff.
I now feel like LSU is second place to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and I guess pretty soon, even South Carolina. So please quit the bull talk. Because I really now don’t believe them, or you, that keep writing to the contrary. “That the guys running our LSU football program are good managers.” Les Miles has failed to make LSU the # 1 football program that we the LSU football fans wanted. Even after he had a head start on the rest of the SEC, back when he took over the LSU football team in 2005. Les Miles can’t coach. And you know it. You guys are just selling a bunch of bull talk, and I am very tired of reading about it?
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LSU Football Recruiting: Updates on 2013 Commits and Targets
By (Featured Columnist) on December 30, 2012
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LSU is one of the premier programs in college football, and much of that has to do with recruiting.
There's not much to dislike about LSU if you're a 4- or 5-star recruit. The Tigers are a powerhouse in the SEC, they are a nationally relevant program, they usually boast a dominant defense, and they are coached by the one and only Les Miles.
There's also the fact that LSU boasts arguably one of the best game-day atmospheres in college football.
No wonder so many elite recruits want to go to LSU...
If you're a fan of LSU football or even just college football recruiting in general, consider this to be your "one stop shop" for LSU recruiting.
You'll find all the news, analysis and updates on commitments and targets that you'll ever need, right here. Read more...http://bleacherreport.
Note: All 2012 stats via 247Sports unless otherwise noted.
There's not much to dislike about LSU if you're a 4- or 5-star recruit. The Tigers are a powerhouse in the SEC, they are a nationally relevant program, they usually boast a dominant defense, and they are coached by the one and only Les Miles.
There's also the fact that LSU boasts arguably one of the best game-day atmospheres in college football.
No wonder so many elite recruits want to go to LSU...
If you're a fan of LSU football or even just college football recruiting in general, consider this to be your "one stop shop" for LSU recruiting.
You'll find all the news, analysis and updates on commitments and targets that you'll ever need, right here. Read more...http://bleacherreport.
Note: All 2012 stats via 247Sports unless otherwise noted.
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Alabama Beats LSU: Les Miles Made Too Many Coaching Blunders
By (Featured Columnist) on January 10, 2012
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It will be a question that will remain on every college football fan's mind throughout the next couple of days. It will be a question that fills the sports airwaves for days to come, with plenty of arguments for both sides.
But when it comes down to it, LSU simply couldn't have done any worse on the offensive end, so why didn't Miles at least give it a try?
Jarrett Lee started the season as LSU's starting quarterback, but Jefferson took over the job for good when LSU and Alabama played back on Nov. 5 and Jefferson was simply more effective. But while Jefferson was solid in the first meeting between these two teams, he was far from solid in the 2012 BCS National Championship Game on Monday night.
Jefferson was downright pathetic at times in the 21-0 loss, failing to get anything going on the offensive end.
However, when it was all said and done, Miles defended his coaching blunder to stay with Jefferson at quarterback.
"We felt like with Jordan Jefferson's speed and ability to move and get out of the rush, it was fair that he finish the game," Miles said. "As much as I would have liked to put Jarrett (Lee) in, I felt like it would be unfair to him with the pass rush he would sustain."
Well, coach Miles, how would you know that if you didn't give it a try?
Furthermore, if you watched the game, LSU called for Jefferson to drop back and be a pocket passer late in the contest, which is not his speciality. If they are going to call drop-back passes, why not go with the guy who is the better pocket passer, which is Lee?
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As bad as Jefferson was tonight against Alabama, Lee really hasn't been much better throughout his career in games against Alabama. Lee has passed for just one touchdown and had been picked seven times against the Tide throughout his college career.
But again, how would you know if he would play that bad again, without giving it a try while down by two scores?
Down 15-0 late in the fourth quarter, it became apparent that the game was slipping away from LSU. The Tigers simply needed a spark, and that spark was not going to come with Jordan Jefferson under center.
The LSU faithful were cheering and calling for Lee to enter the game, and—who knows?—maybe that would have sparked this LSU team, which simply looked dejected and uninterested as the game went on.
The worse-case scenario would have been that Lee goes in, turns the ball over and Alabama scores a touchdown.
Well guess what? That happened anyway on the Tide's next offensive possession.
It's tough for any coach to go against his gut feeling and put in a quarterback who has traditionally been terrible against a dominant Alabama defense. But it was something that simply had to be done at that point in time, and for some reason, Les Miles chose not to give Lee a shot.
Perhaps Lee would have sparked the LSU offense, perhaps not.
But the bottom line is that Miles didn't pull the trigger and go with Lee, and now fans everywhere can't help but wonder two simple words.
"Why not?"
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| Les Miles | |
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 Miles in June 2006 |
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| Sport(s) | Football |
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | LSU |
| Conference | SEC |
| Record | 85–21 |
| Annual salary | $8.75 million annually, plus performance bonuses; signed through 2017[1] |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | November 10, 1953 (age 59) Elyria, Ohio |
| Playing career | |
| 1974–1975 | Michigan |
| Position(s) | Offensive lineman |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1980–1981 1982–1986 1987–1994 1995–1997 1998–2000 2001–2004 2005–present |
Michigan (GA) Colorado (OL) Michigan (OL) Oklahoma State (OC) Dallas Cowboys (TE) Oklahoma State LSU |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 113–42 |
| Bowls | 6–4 |
| Statistics College Football Data Warehouse |
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| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships
1 National (2007) 2 SEC (2007, 2011) 3 SEC Western Division (2005, 2007, 2011) |
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| Awards
Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award (2011) Home Depot Coach of the Year Award (2011) Associated Press College Football Coach of the Year Award (2011) AFCA FBS Coach of the Year (2011) Walter Camp Coach of the Year (2011) |
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Prior to holding that position, he was head coach at Oklahoma State. He was formerly an assistant at Oklahoma State as well as Michigan, Colorado, and the Dallas Cowboys. Miles has held the head coaching position at LSU since January 2005 and coached the Tigers to a win in the 2008 BCS National Championship Game against Ohio State, 38–24. On August 26, 2011, his contract was extended to 2017.[3]
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LSU
East: Les Miles says he’s ready to keep it going
By LES EAST
Advocate sportswriter
January 21, 2013
Advocate sportswriter
January 21, 2013
People who already felt the program was in good hands probably still feel that way.
People who had doubts about Miles and his program probably still have them.
But people in both camps should have come away reassured that the unprecedented number of underclassmen leaving early for the NFL draft isn’t going to cripple one of the elite programs in the country.
Similarly, people should have understood that Miles wasn’t going to overreact to a 10-3 season in which one more first down or defensive stop against Alabama would have had the Tigers playing for the Southeastern Conference Championship and a berth in the BCS title game.
LSU is who it has been and figures to remain that way.
A lot of talent is leaving before exhausting its eligibility, but talented replacements are on their way.
Yes, the offense needs to get better — and Miles knows it — but the answer is not going to be to scrap a philosophy that Miles has followed in winning 80 percent of his games in eight seasons.
Miles, who wouldn’t answer Thursday when asked whether there could be changes to the offensive staff, was a bit more forthcoming Friday.
“(The offense) is not something that I’m thinking about right now,” he said. “We are certainly going to make improvement there. But right now, all I’m focused on is recruiting and finishing out this signing class on a high note.”
This signing class is the primary reason Miles was unfazed by the early departures. In addition to expecting and preparing for most of the departures, Miles believes he’s on the verge of completing another class that will yield a bunch of NFL-ready underclassmen.
It’s why, even though he’s not satisfied with a 10-3 season, he is comfortable with the state of the program. Read more...http://theadvocate.com/
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LSU Football - Geaux Tigers!!!
| LSU Reveille | Miles' recruiting classes improve |
| Times Picayune | Russell Shepard added to South roster at Senior Bowl |
| Times Picayune | Chris Faulk trying to get healthy for draft |
| Les Miles | Video (65 sec): LSU 2013 Junior Day sign-up, Saturday February 16th |
| ESPN 104.5 | Audio (12 min, 55 sec): Interview with Russell Shepard | .mp3 |
| USA Today | SEC commissioner Mike Slive made $1.6 million in 2011 |
| CBS SportsLine | Smaller conferences crafting plan to share playoff revenue |
| CBS SportsLine | Reviewing Super Bowl starters as college recruits |
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