Tinker:
Just how plain is this - I want to speak my own words when I am trying to tell you about my thoughts and feeling about how I believe. I really don't want to read the words written by someone else on a teleprompter. I want to be honest about what I believe so you will know what I say is my true thoughts.
If you read and see people doing what is not plainly honest then you will also know that you are being hustle by people behind the seen. What you don't see behind the camera is also very much a big part of the story that is being told to you. That they are still trying to make your life a ripoff baby, don't let them get away with it.
Turn off your televisions and go about your business, fire the bums. Just how plain is this - I want to speak my own words when I am trying to tell you about my thoughts and feeling about how I believe. I really don't want to read the words written by someone else on a teleprompter. I want to be honest about what I believe so you will know what I say is my true thoughts.
If you read and see people doing what is not plainly honest then you will also know that you are being hustle by people behind the seen. What you don't see behind the camera is also very much a big part of the story that is being told to you. That they are still trying to make your life a ripoff baby, don't let them get away with it.
Don't argue, just turn them off.
It
is becoming very hard for me to except that the American public is
willing to swallow all that dishonest behavior coming from the American
Television Networks airways and people running Washington DC.
Just how long will this show go on is very much up to the American people.
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Tinker:
Look at this guy allowing himself to be used by the NBC news media once more for another big TV show. Bo Dole helped to put a lot of TV shown on when he was a senator in the US senate for many many years before.
So even at this late date in his life once again NBC can get him to put on another Washington DC insiders political show. No one seem to want and tell him the truth. Thanks for nothing senator, you played the Washington DC insider game as well as anyone ever did.
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Nightly News | May 28, 2013
http://thehill.com/homenews/
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has
subpoenaed State Department documents related to the Benghazi talking
points, according to a letter sent to Secretary of State John Kerry obtained by The Hill.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/
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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1593 |
| AUTHOR: | Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) |
| QUOTATION: | “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” “A Republic, if you can keep it.” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The response is attributed to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN—at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation—in the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Convention. |
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Tinker:
Look at this guy allowing himself to be used by the NBC news media once more for another big TV show. Bo Dole helped to put a lot of TV shown on when he was a senator in the US senate for many many years before.
So even at this late date in his life once again NBC can get him to put on another Washington DC insiders political show. No one seem to want and tell him the truth. Thanks for nothing senator, you played the Washington DC insider game as well as anyone ever did.
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Nightly News | May 28, 2013
In rare interview, Bob Dole laments current-day GOP
Over Memorial Day weekend former Senate leader Bob Dole said today’s Republican Party is unrecognizable, and he feels they ought to rebuild and start over. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.
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Mike Murphy behind anti-gun ads
posted on May 26, 2013 by Jazz Shaw
GOP strategist Mike Murphy?
The ads that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun group has run defending Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) and criticizing Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) were cut by GOP strategist Mike Murphy, sources familiar with the spots said.Mike is a regular on the political chat circuit and I’ve generally enjoyed his work in the past. He’s a smart guy and often has some very good input on the political issues of the day. (And yes, I follow him on Twitter. In addition to being pretty smart, he’s hilarious.) But none of that changes the fact that I’ve got to look at him in a somewhat different light now. You have to know who the enemy is, even if he’s popping up in your own back yard. Read more...http://hotair.com/
Murphy’s ads come on the heels of DCI Group leading the work for Mayors Against Illegal Guns’s spots against Democratic Senators.
A MAIG spokeswoman confirmed Murphy shot the anti-Pryor spot POLITICO reported on this week. Sources familiar with the ads said Murphy, who worked on Mitt Romney’s 2002 Massachusetts governor’s race and Meg Whitman’s California governor’s race in 2010, also cut the spots defending Toomey.
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DOJ confirms Holder OK'd search warrant for Fox News reporter's emails
The
Obama administration's crackdown on leaks could have chilling
implications for the journalists who cover the White House. NBC's
Michael Isikoff reports.
By Michael Isikoff
National Investigative Correspondent, NBC News
The
Justice Department pledged Friday to to review its policies relating to
the seizure of information from journalists after acknowledging that a
controversial search warrant for a Fox News reporter’s private emails
was approved “at the highest levels” of the Justice Department,
including “discussions” with Attorney General Eric Holder.National Investigative Correspondent, NBC News
In a 2010 affidavit in support of the search warrant, an FBI agent named Rosen as a possible “co-conspirator” in the case because he “asked, solicited and encouraged” Kim to give him information.
“After extensive deliberations, and after following all applicable laws, regulations and policies, the Department sought an appropriately tailored search warrant under the Privacy Protection Act,” said a department official, referring to a federal law that governs under what circumstances information can be subpoenaed from the news media. “And a federal magistrate judge made an independent finding that probable cause existed to approve the search warrant.” Read more...http://openchannel.
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Confidential report lists U.S. weapons system designs compromised by Chinese cyberspies
By Ellen Nakashima, Published: May 27 E-mail the writer
Designs for many of the nation’s
most sensitive advanced weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese
hackers, according to a report prepared for the Pentagon and to
officials from government and the defense industry.
Among more than two dozen major weapons systems whose designs were breached were programs critical to U.S. missile defenses and combat aircraft and ships, according to a previously undisclosed section of a confidential report prepared for Pentagon leaders by the Defense Science Board.
Among more than two dozen major weapons systems whose designs were breached were programs critical to U.S. missile defenses and combat aircraft and ships, according to a previously undisclosed section of a confidential report prepared for Pentagon leaders by the Defense Science Board.
A list of the compromised U.S. weapons designs and technologies
MAY 27
The systems named in a report by the Defense Science Board includes some critical to U.S. missile defense.
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China’s Cyberspies Outwit Model for Bond’s Q
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May 2, 2013
QinetiQ Group PLC via Bloomberg
A QinetiQ Group PLC operator controls a Dragon Runner robot. The
People's Liberation Army unveiled a bomb disposal robot in April 2012
similar to QinetiQ's Dragon Runner.
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McCain: ‘Angry and bitter’ Syrians need America’s help
Posted by
CNN's Kevin Liptak
(CNN) – The people of Syria,
beleaguered by war and potentially being attacked by chemical weapons,
are “angry and bitter” that the United States has not played a more
leading role in ending the country’s conflict, Sen. John McCain said
Sunday.
Long an advocate of a more pronounced American effort in Syria, McCain described the disappointment he saw while visiting a Syrian refugee camp in neighboring Jordan.
“This woman who was a schoolteacher said, ‘Sen. McCain, do you see these children here? They're going to take revenge on those people who refused to help them,’ ” McCain recalled on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “They’re angry and bitter. And that legacy could last for a long time too, unless we assist them.”
Last week, the White House told lawmakers in a letter that intelligence analysts have concluded "with varying degrees of confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin."
But the analysis was characterized as preliminary, with the White House saying the "chain of custody" of the chemicals was not clear and that intelligence analysts could not confirm the circumstances under which the sarin was used, including the role of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
President Barack Obama has said that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would cross a “red line” threshold for greater U.S. action in the country, which McCain argued was coming too late.
“For about two years this situation has deteriorated in a very alarming fashion, affected the surrounding countries, destabilized Lebanon, destabilized Jordan, and has had implications and repercussions throughout the region,” McCain said.
On Friday, Obama noted again that the use of chemical weapons in Syria “crosses a line that will change my calculus and how the United States approaches these issues.”
But he said the intelligence gathered on potential use of sarin was still too preliminary to be conclusive.
Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff argued that once a red line has been drawn it must be adhered to.
“I think putting aside the question of exactly what we do, once we announce there's a red line, if we don't take it seriously, we are discrediting ourselves in not just Syria, but Iran, North Korea, all around the world,” Chertoff, who served under President George W. Bush, told CNN chief political correspondent Candy Crowley. “How much proof do you need?”
Nicholas Burns, a former undersecretary of state, said Obama was in a difficult situation.
“He was right to make those warnings in the last several months because use of chemical weapons is a war crime under the chemical weapons convention,” Burns said, also on CNN. “I think he's right to be prudent and cautious. We got in a situation in 2003 in Iraq and didn't have all our facts together and went to war in part on an erroneous basis. So he's right to be cautious.”
“But when you draw a line in the sand in the Middle East and you dare someone to cross it and they appear to have crossed it, there have been to be consequences,” he added. “And our credibility as a country is very important.”
----------------------------Long an advocate of a more pronounced American effort in Syria, McCain described the disappointment he saw while visiting a Syrian refugee camp in neighboring Jordan.
“This woman who was a schoolteacher said, ‘Sen. McCain, do you see these children here? They're going to take revenge on those people who refused to help them,’ ” McCain recalled on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “They’re angry and bitter. And that legacy could last for a long time too, unless we assist them.”
Last week, the White House told lawmakers in a letter that intelligence analysts have concluded "with varying degrees of confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin."
But the analysis was characterized as preliminary, with the White House saying the "chain of custody" of the chemicals was not clear and that intelligence analysts could not confirm the circumstances under which the sarin was used, including the role of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
President Barack Obama has said that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would cross a “red line” threshold for greater U.S. action in the country, which McCain argued was coming too late.
“For about two years this situation has deteriorated in a very alarming fashion, affected the surrounding countries, destabilized Lebanon, destabilized Jordan, and has had implications and repercussions throughout the region,” McCain said.
On Friday, Obama noted again that the use of chemical weapons in Syria “crosses a line that will change my calculus and how the United States approaches these issues.”
But he said the intelligence gathered on potential use of sarin was still too preliminary to be conclusive.
Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff argued that once a red line has been drawn it must be adhered to.
“I think putting aside the question of exactly what we do, once we announce there's a red line, if we don't take it seriously, we are discrediting ourselves in not just Syria, but Iran, North Korea, all around the world,” Chertoff, who served under President George W. Bush, told CNN chief political correspondent Candy Crowley. “How much proof do you need?”
Nicholas Burns, a former undersecretary of state, said Obama was in a difficult situation.
“He was right to make those warnings in the last several months because use of chemical weapons is a war crime under the chemical weapons convention,” Burns said, also on CNN. “I think he's right to be prudent and cautious. We got in a situation in 2003 in Iraq and didn't have all our facts together and went to war in part on an erroneous basis. So he's right to be cautious.”
“But when you draw a line in the sand in the Middle East and you dare someone to cross it and they appear to have crossed it, there have been to be consequences,” he added. “And our credibility as a country is very important.”
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2 victims of Benghazi attack to be honored with plaques at California veteran's memorial
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Obama calls Benghazi controversy a 'sideshow'
published May 13, 2013FoxNews.com
The president addressed the issue during a press conference alongside British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is visiting Washington. Obama denied any suggestion that there was a cover-up, questioning recent reports that showed a State Department official trying to water down the administration's initial story-line on what happened the night of Sept. 11.
"There's no there there," Obama said. The president, further, reiterated prior arguments that he called the attack terrorism from the start, dismissing claims that the administration intentionally downplayed that element.
But Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, called Obama's latest comments "revisionist history."
"The president can't have it both ways," Issa told Fox News.
The president, with his comments, echoed remarks made by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who asked during testimony in January "what difference" did the controversy over the talking points make.
Obama on Monday dismissed the questions as rooted in "political motivations."
Since Clinton's testimony, though, new details have been made public about the administration's early efforts to explain what happened in Benghazi last September. Despite claims that the White House and State Department were not heavily involved in editing the intelligence community's narrative, emails show State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland pushed to remove references to Al Qaeda and to the intelligence community's prior warnings about security in the region.
Based on those talking points, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice went on five Sunday shows to claim the attack was prompted by a protest over an anti-Islam film.
Further, three State Department whistle-blowers testified last week, with one claiming he was shocked and "embarrassed" to hear Rice's comments since he knew it was a terror attack all along.
But Obama said Monday that the administration has been clear all along that officials "were not clear" at the time what was behind the attack.
"Nobody understood exactly what was taking place during the course of those first few days," Obama said.
The president also rolled out a new argument, suggesting that National Counterterrorism Center Director Matt Olsen was dispatched three days later to clear things up. He was referring to Olsen's testimony on Capitol Hill Sept. 19 in which he called the attack terrorism.
"If this was some effort on our part to try to downplay what had happened or tamp it down, that would be a pretty odd thing that three days later we end up putting out all the information," Obama said. "Who executes some sort of cover-up or effort to tamp things down for three days? So the whole thing defies logic."
But at the time, Olsen's testimony was considered major news because it ran contrary to other accounts out of the administration.
Congressional sources also told Fox News last year that Olsen was reprimanded by the White House after he testified -- though the White House denied the allegation.
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May 28, 2013
Map Of Cosmos May Shed Light On Birth Of Universe
Posted: 05/28/2013
Published: 05/28/2013 07:47 AM EDT on SPACE.com
A map of the universe based on its oldest light is giving astronomers hope that they may be able to answer some of the deepest questions of the cosmos, including how it got started.
Scientists met this week at the University of California, Davis to pore over the treasure trove of data published two months ago from the European Planck spacecraft. The observatory measures what's called the cosmic microwave background — light spread across the sky that dates from soon after the Big Bang that kick-started the universe.
"We have the best map ever of the cosmic microwave background, and that shows us what the universe was like 370,000 years after the Big Bang," said Charles Lawrence, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California who is the lead U.S. scientist on the Planck project. Lawrence and other researchers summed up the consequences of the meeting, called the Davis Cosmic Frontiers Conferences, in a call to reporters Friday (May 24). [Gallery: Planck Spacecraft Sees Big Bang Relics]
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) was first discovered in 1964, and since then a series of experiments, culminating in Planck, have measured it in increasing detail, providing cosmologists a direct line to test theories about the beginnings of the universe. Planck launched in 2009, and the recent data represent the product of the spacecraft's first 15.5 months of observations.
"Rarely in the history of science has there been such a triumphant transformation from really complete ignorance to really deep insights in just a few decades," said Andreas Albrecht, chair of the University of California, Davis Department of Physics.
The CMB has provided strong support for the theory of cosmic inflation, which suggests that the universe ballooned in size during a period of exponential growth within the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang. Variations in the temperature of the CMB light are thought to correspond to tiny density ripples in the universe caused by quantum fluctuations when it first formed. These ripples, in turn, gave rise to the structure we see today in the form of stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Read more...http://www.
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By LUKE JOHNSON
Tiger Rag Assistant Editor
LSU cleared up the question of its weekend regional rotation quickly Tuesday evening when it named junior right-hander Ryan Eades the starter for its 2 p.m. game against Jackson State on Friday.
Coach Paul Mainieri said after the NCAA Tournament selection show that he was not sure whether he would throw Eades or sophomore Cody Glenn to open up post season play, but after some consideration Eades was the obvious chose.
“I’m not sure that Jackson State has faced that kind of an arm in the (Southwestern Athletic Conference),” Mainieri said. “Ryan has a chance to be a high draft choice … he throws real hard, has got a great curveball — I think he’s one of the best pitchers in the SEC and I think that’s a good matchup for us in the opening game.”
“Cody is more of a finesse pitcher, and I think they face a lot of finesse pitchers in that league.”
Eades comes into regional play with an 8-1 record and a 2.69 ERA. He has struck out 75 batters against just 27 walks. While the numbers are encouraging, Eades lost consistency toward the end of the season.
He sandwiched three strong starts against South Carolina, Florida and Texas A&M with three ugly lines against Alabama, Arkansas and Ole Miss where he only threw four innings and allowed five earned runs.
Eades looked good in his lone action at the SEC tournament, allowing only four hits and two runs to Alabama in seven innings of work. What was perhaps most encouraging about the start was the fact that he needed just 72 pitches to do so.
If his stuff overmatches Jackson State like Mainieri thinks it will, this start will give the Tigers’ No. 2 pitcher some confidence as LSU heads toward what it hopes is a deep June run. As Mainieri said earlier in the season, without an effective Ryan Eades, LSU’s chances of winning it all take a huge dip.
INJURY UPDATE
Freshman outfielder Mark Laird, who sprained his ankle during warmups before LSU’s elimination game against Arkansas in the SEC tournament, was wearing a walking boot during practice Tuesday.
Mainieri wasn’t sure what his status would be for the tournament, but he’ll have to know by Thursday afternoon whether he’s good enough to play because tournament rosters are due at 4 p.m.
“He saw the doc this morning, it’s improving, we just don’t know how much you can expedite an ankle sprain,” Mainieri said. “We’re going to reserve our decision on whether or not to have him on the active roster, and we won’t decide that until Thursday.”
Mainieri also said since Laird’s game is based on speed, the injury needs to be close to being healed for him to even consider using Laird in game action. If Laird is unable to go, freshman pitcher Hunter Newman will take his spot on the tournament roster.
Sophomore JaCoby Jones has missed the last two weeks of action after injuring his wrist in his apartment. He was fully dressed at practice and took some batting practice while the media was present.
He will be a full participant in practice as Mainieri tests his wrist to see if it withstands the rigors of both the batter’s box and the infield.
“If things look good, tomorrow we’re going to set up a little simulated game for him to get him a half a dozen or more at bats,” Mainieri said. “Just so he can start to see some live pitching again. We’ll see how he looks in the field and see if that wrist is hindering him at all.”
This was Jones taking batting practice today.
TigerGumbo on Your comment May 29th, 2013 2:57 am
From now on out each baseball will be like the very last pitch ever thrown, and our pitchers will be throwing the baseball at the corners of home plate as if their very life depended on them getting it right.
The LSU fans will hang on every pitch and play, because the long between moment of the baseball game will now only become conformable if the baseball game goes LSU way. If not, we will all just quietly die.
So please play hard and determined LSU tigers come to the plate relaxed and ready to hit the ball, catch the ball and play the fundamentals like a pro. Leave the kid stuff home and win these next five baseball game no matter who you are playing against .Win, win, win, win, win.
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Eades named Game One starter
May 28, 2013 - © 2013 Tiger Rag
Junior righty to get the nod against Jackson State, plus other notes
By LUKE JOHNSON
Tiger Rag Assistant Editor
LSU cleared up the question of its weekend regional rotation quickly Tuesday evening when it named junior right-hander Ryan Eades the starter for its 2 p.m. game against Jackson State on Friday.
Coach Paul Mainieri said after the NCAA Tournament selection show that he was not sure whether he would throw Eades or sophomore Cody Glenn to open up post season play, but after some consideration Eades was the obvious chose.
“I’m not sure that Jackson State has faced that kind of an arm in the (Southwestern Athletic Conference),” Mainieri said. “Ryan has a chance to be a high draft choice … he throws real hard, has got a great curveball — I think he’s one of the best pitchers in the SEC and I think that’s a good matchup for us in the opening game.”
“Cody is more of a finesse pitcher, and I think they face a lot of finesse pitchers in that league.”
Eades comes into regional play with an 8-1 record and a 2.69 ERA. He has struck out 75 batters against just 27 walks. While the numbers are encouraging, Eades lost consistency toward the end of the season.
He sandwiched three strong starts against South Carolina, Florida and Texas A&M with three ugly lines against Alabama, Arkansas and Ole Miss where he only threw four innings and allowed five earned runs.
Eades looked good in his lone action at the SEC tournament, allowing only four hits and two runs to Alabama in seven innings of work. What was perhaps most encouraging about the start was the fact that he needed just 72 pitches to do so.
If his stuff overmatches Jackson State like Mainieri thinks it will, this start will give the Tigers’ No. 2 pitcher some confidence as LSU heads toward what it hopes is a deep June run. As Mainieri said earlier in the season, without an effective Ryan Eades, LSU’s chances of winning it all take a huge dip.
INJURY UPDATE
Freshman outfielder Mark Laird, who sprained his ankle during warmups before LSU’s elimination game against Arkansas in the SEC tournament, was wearing a walking boot during practice Tuesday.
Mainieri wasn’t sure what his status would be for the tournament, but he’ll have to know by Thursday afternoon whether he’s good enough to play because tournament rosters are due at 4 p.m.
“He saw the doc this morning, it’s improving, we just don’t know how much you can expedite an ankle sprain,” Mainieri said. “We’re going to reserve our decision on whether or not to have him on the active roster, and we won’t decide that until Thursday.”
Mainieri also said since Laird’s game is based on speed, the injury needs to be close to being healed for him to even consider using Laird in game action. If Laird is unable to go, freshman pitcher Hunter Newman will take his spot on the tournament roster.
Sophomore JaCoby Jones has missed the last two weeks of action after injuring his wrist in his apartment. He was fully dressed at practice and took some batting practice while the media was present.
He will be a full participant in practice as Mainieri tests his wrist to see if it withstands the rigors of both the batter’s box and the infield.
“If things look good, tomorrow we’re going to set up a little simulated game for him to get him a half a dozen or more at bats,” Mainieri said. “Just so he can start to see some live pitching again. We’ll see how he looks in the field and see if that wrist is hindering him at all.”
This was Jones taking batting practice today.
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TigerGumbo on Your comment May 29th, 2013 2:57 am
From now on out each baseball will be like the very last pitch ever thrown, and our pitchers will be throwing the baseball at the corners of home plate as if their very life depended on them getting it right.
The LSU fans will hang on every pitch and play, because the long between moment of the baseball game will now only become conformable if the baseball game goes LSU way. If not, we will all just quietly die.
So please play hard and determined LSU tigers come to the plate relaxed and ready to hit the ball, catch the ball and play the fundamentals like a pro. Leave the kid stuff home and win these next five baseball game no matter who you are playing against .Win, win, win, win, win.
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The SEC spring meetings will be taking place in Destin, Fla., Tuesday through Friday this week.
LSU coach Les Miles continues to be in favor of getting rid of permanent cross-divisional opponents in the SEC. (AP Photo/David Quinn)
Spurrier made his feelings known as well last month.
"Nobody said it's supposed to be fair anyway. Have you ever heard any commissioner or anybody say it's supposed to be fair? They'd make the recruiting rules more fair. Right now, it seems like the same team gets all the top players every year in recruiting. We just need to go play whoever they tell us to play and do the best we can, and things will work out hopefully."
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Les Miles says SEC scheduling gives certain teams 'unintended and unearned advantages'
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on May 26, 2013
The SEC spring meetings will be taking place in Destin, Fla., Tuesday through Friday this week.LSU coach Les Miles continues to be in favor of getting rid of permanent cross-divisional opponents in the SEC. (AP Photo/David Quinn)
The
issue of scheduling - not just an eight-game vs. nine-game conference
model, but permanent cross-divisional opponents - will be a big topic of
debate.
In fact, LSU coach Les Miles has once again made his feelings known.
Miles, who was a guest on The Tim Brando Show last week, said he thinks the current league scheduling gives certain teams "unintended and unearned advantages."
Here is an excerpt of the conversation:
Brando:
What if I were to tell you in the eight-game schedule you're currently
playing, those two games you're playing on the other side, are
absolutely statistically tilted against you vs. that of your premium
opponent, Alabama? I think it is reasonable to assume, right, over the
last hand full of years, maybe a decade or more, that the top two teams
in the West have been LSU and Alabama. The two top teams in the East
have been Georgia and Florida. Correct?
Miles: Correct.
Brando:
If I would've told you in the last 13 years, you would've played
non-divisional opponents Florida and Georgia, you've played them 17
times. And Alabama has played them eight times. What would you say to
that?
Miles: I'd have to say we have a scheduling quark
there. We handled our business. I can only tell you that they are going
to run into their share of matchups against the East's traditional
powerhouses.
Brando: To be fair, Auburn has played Florida and Georgia 19 times during that span. ... On the other end, your friend Steve Spurrier has a little bit of a point, and Florida may have a little bit of a point. Will Muschamp
may have a little bit of a point because Georgia is not having to play
Alabama nearly as often as Florida has to play Alabama or as much as
South Carolina plays Alabama.
Miles: I think there is
some unintended, unearned advantages by scheduling. I mean unintended,
the conference put it in there and they tried to deal with the
traditions of the conference and tried to make things work. I think the
unintended has to do with that. No question there are some advantages by
scheduling. You can deny historically, traditionally that those two
teams are pretty strong. And those two teams can make a difference in
what is the Western Division championship. And they can make a
difference year after year if the scheduling is not some way made equal.
To listen to the entire interview, click here.
For five things to watch for this week at the SEC spring meetings, click here.
Here is what Muschamp had to say on the topic last month:
"We've exhausted this pretty good here.
Again, those decisions are not made by the coaches. We can voice our
opinions. I understand the arguments on both sides of it, but at the end
of the day, we have some people that want the permanent opponents."
"Tennessee's
got Alabama, who's been the best team the last three or four years, and
that's not fair for Tennessee to have to play those guys every year,"
Spurrier said. "But I don't know. Heck, that's just sort of the way it
is. The coaches ... we don't make the rules. We just try to coach our
teams the best we can.
"Nobody said it's supposed to be fair anyway. Have you ever heard any commissioner or anybody say it's supposed to be fair? They'd make the recruiting rules more fair. Right now, it seems like the same team gets all the top players every year in recruiting. We just need to go play whoever they tell us to play and do the best we can, and things will work out hopefully."
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Video: SEC spring meetings preview
May, 28, 2013
By ESPN.com staff | ESPN.com
SEC bloggers Chris Low and Edward Aschoff preview the biggest topics of
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