Tinker:
Washington DC is all safe and sound in the loving arms of the Spanish Mexicans who are now Americans, not aliens, crossing over from the Mexico border. To vote democrat for all the free stuff that the other American citizens have been privileged to use as a fail safe government program, for when the citizens of the US run out of money to live on.
Supplying this government fail safe poverty government program is one of the selling points of the American democratic party, all the American people need to do is to vote democrat to get that government supply of free stuff.
Washington DC is all safe and sound in the loving arms of the Spanish Mexicans who are now Americans, not aliens, crossing over from the Mexico border. To vote democrat for all the free stuff that the other American citizens have been privileged to use as a fail safe government program, for when the citizens of the US run out of money to live on.
Supplying this government fail safe poverty government program is one of the selling points of the American democratic party, all the American people need to do is to vote democrat to get that government supply of free stuff.
And that government supply and demand of voting
democrat to receive free stuff is this ongoing hustle of the President
Obama White House, that is in full force these days.
How do you like those free apples America, open the borders and let the good time roll with a one party system, you will always be out voted because of the ever growing collection of free stuff voters. The Democrat's are confident in that crowd of people, and the sympathetic TV networks, ever growing number of democratic voters crossing over the Mexico borders. Also with the ever present political spin of democrats painting all white American people voting republican as hating black people and useing that guilt complex to divide and conquer. That is the Democrats party hustle.
How do you like those free apples America, open the borders and let the good time roll with a one party system, you will always be out voted because of the ever growing collection of free stuff voters. The Democrat's are confident in that crowd of people, and the sympathetic TV networks, ever growing number of democratic voters crossing over the Mexico borders. Also with the ever present political spin of democrats painting all white American people voting republican as hating black people and useing that guilt complex to divide and conquer. That is the Democrats party hustle.
Is this still America!?
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WHITE HOUSE STANDS BY SARAH...
Anonymous IRS official -- everything comes from the top...
McConnell: 'There is culture of intimidation throughout administration'...
Portman: IRS will need special counsel...
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As NewsBusters reported
two weeks ago, CBS’s Bob Schieffer is fed up with the White House’s
talking points concerning what happened at our consulate in Benghazi,
Libya, last September.
His impatience continued on Sunday's Face the Nation when Obama senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer gave stock answers to questions about the three crises facing the President leading Schieffer to first accuse his guest of taking "exactly the approach that the Nixon administration took" and finally scolding him by asking, "Why are you here today? Why isn't the White House Chief of Staff here to tell us what happened?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
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I may as well have stayed here.
You know that the faltering American idol in the White House must be reeling in this scandalous spring. No Drama Obama is immersed in drama so over the top it could have been scripted by Shonda Rhimes and Karl Rove.
Just four months after his second inauguration, the president is buffeted by gushing investigations, smug and deranged Republicans, and cat-who-ate-the-canary conspiracists. The man who promised in 2008 to make government cool again is instead batting away charges that he has made government “Nixonian” again.
Asked about that on Thursday, Obama might have tried a little J.F.K. wit to dismiss the ridiculous assertion. Instead, he played the pill, as he too often does, huffily telling reporters, “Well, I’ll let you guys engage in those comparisons, and you can go ahead and read the history, I think, and draw your own conclusions.”
The onetime messiah seems like a sad sack, trying to bounce back from a blistering array of sins that are not even his fault. He went to Baltimore on Friday to talk about jobs. But no one was listening. Everybody in the country who hates the I.R.S. — so, then, everybody — was listening to the lugubrious acting I.R.S. commissioner who had been ousted, Steven Miller, tell a House committee that he didn’t know who was to blame for the scheme to unfairly scrutinize conservative groups with words like “Tea Party” and “Patriot” in their titles.
“Is this still America?” demanded Congressman Kevin Brady, a Republican from Texas.
It turns out that Treasury officials knew during the 2012 campaign that an investigation into the targeting was going on. But, enhancing his image as a stranger in a strange land, the president said he learned about it from news reports on May 10. Then he waited three days to descend from the mountain and express outrage.
Democrats are not worried that the rumpuses will hurt Obama’s personal appeal or reputation for integrity. But it can’t help the president’s already limited ability to get anything done in a Congress full of Republicans who live to thwart him, and it may impede his plan to win back the House.
Democrats fret that it will hurt them in 2014. As one strategist put it: “Now the kooky, paranoid Tea Party people will believe they had a reason to be paranoid. And there’s no better way to express their feelings than to vote next year.”
Certainly Obama is getting a clearer understanding that the biggest downside of having the other party control a branch of Congress is its ability to use investigations and subpoenas as anvils.
Unfortunately, the sound and fury and battle for clicks will make the already aggrieved president, who considers himself a serious person stuck in an unserious time, even more aggrieved. The Times’s Peter Baker reported that Obama feels so stymied that he dreams of “going Bulworth,” a reference to the Warren Beatty movie in which a depressed and fading Democratic senator from California starts rapping, speaking with politically incorrect candor and dating Halle Berry.
The president should try candid; wistful and petulant aren’t getting him anywhere. The Republicans who are putting partisan gain above solving the country’s problems deserve a smackdown.
Obama the candidate was romanticized as the pristine relief from Clinton scandals. But his pure personal life did not exempt him from running a government awash in old-school screw-ups.
The Clintons have emerged stronger on the back end of their scandals. For better or worse, Bill is seen as authentic. He is what he is. America’s ultimate survivors are now truly potent or dangerous, depending on how you look at it, because Americans love them Bridget Jones-style, just the way they are, warts and all. “Hillary Clinton eats scandals for breakfast,” Bill Maher said. “If the Republicans keep this up, she’ll not only be president, she’ll appoint Bill to the Supreme Court.”
Obama would never pull what Hillary pulled with her longtime aide Huma Abedin. Abedin was allowed, after the birth of her and Anthony Weiner’s son, to work part time as a top adviser in the State Department for $135,000 while also working as a consultant for private clients, some of whom had to be interested in her influence in the government.
As Politico reported, the arrangement was similar to the way many of Hillary’s aides were paid while she was a senator: “They were compensated partly through work on her government staff, and partly through her political action committee.” And others would later land lucrative gigs at Clinton-friendly organizations.
Hillary has a blind spot on ethics, not minding if things look terrible if they’re technically legit. And she has a tight grip on money, so she didn’t choose to simply shift Huma to her personal payroll.
But Americans have already priced in the imperfections of the Clintons.
Who knows? If Washington keeps imploding, Hillary may run in 2016 on restoring honor to the White House.
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WHITE HOUSE STANDS BY SARAH...
Anonymous IRS official -- everything comes from the top...
McConnell: 'There is culture of intimidation throughout administration'...
Portman: IRS will need special counsel...
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Schieffer to Obama Advisor: ‘Why Are You Here? Why Isn’t the White House Chief of Staff Here?’
| By Noel Sheppard | May 19, 2013 | 13:23 |
His impatience continued on Sunday's Face the Nation when Obama senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer gave stock answers to questions about the three crises facing the President leading Schieffer to first accuse his guest of taking "exactly the approach that the Nixon administration took" and finally scolding him by asking, "Why are you here today? Why isn't the White House Chief of Staff here to tell us what happened?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
DAN PFEIFFER, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE ADVISOR: The point that our Chief of Staff is making is that this is the Republican playbook here which is try, when they don't have a positive agenda, try to drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped up hearings and false allegations. We're not going to let that distract us and the President from actually doing the people's work and fighting for the middle class.After Pfeiffer continued with evasive talking points, Schieffer again scolded:
BOB SCHIEFFER, HOST: You know, I don’t want to compare this in any way to Watergate. I do not think this is Watergate by any stretch. But you weren't born then I would guess, but I have to tell you that is exactly the approach that the Nixon administration took. They said, “These are all second-rate things. We don't have time for this. We have to devote our time to the people's business.” You’re taking exactly the same line they did.
SCHIEFFER: But Mr. Pfeiffer, and I don't mean to be argumentative here, but the President is in charge of the executive branch of the government. It’s my, I'll just make this as an assertion: when the executive branch does things right, there doesn't seem to be any hesitancy of the White House to take credit for that. When Osama bin Laden was killed, the President didn't waste any time getting out there and telling people about it.
But with all of these things, when these things happen, you seem to send out officials many times who don't even seem to know what has happened. And I use as an example of that Susan Rice who had no connection whatsoever to the events that took place in Benghazi, and yet she was sent out, appeared on this broadcast, and other Sunday broadcasts, five days after it happens, and I'm not here to get in an argument with you about who changed which word in the talking points and all that. The bottom line is what she told the American people that day bore no resemblance to what had happened on the ground in an incident where four Americans were killed.
Pfeiffer once again stuck with the Administration line leading Schieffer to further push back:
But what I'm saying to you is that was just PR. That was just a PR plan to send out somebody who didn't know anything about what had happened. Why did you do that? Why didn't the Secretary of State come and tell us what they knew and if he knew nothing say, “We don't know yet?” Why didn't the White House Chief of Staff come out? I mean I would, and I mean this as no disrespect to you, why are you here today? Why isn't the White House Chief of Staff here to tell us what happened?Fabulous question.
It's pretty obvious that one of the senior members of the press corps is getting tired of the way this Administration evades serious issues. Let's hope more jump on this bandwagon.
Nice job, Bob! Bravo!
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Op-Ed Columnist
Taxing Times for Obama
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
President Obama spoke last week about the I.R.S. mess, which isn’t helping to improve his lot with Congress. By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: May 18, 2013 165 Comments
WASHINGTON — I WENT to New York last week to cover the TV presentations
for the new season, shows like “Scandal,” “Shark Tank” and a faltering
“American Idol.”
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
Readers’ Comments
Readers shared their thoughts on this article.
You know that the faltering American idol in the White House must be reeling in this scandalous spring. No Drama Obama is immersed in drama so over the top it could have been scripted by Shonda Rhimes and Karl Rove.
Just four months after his second inauguration, the president is buffeted by gushing investigations, smug and deranged Republicans, and cat-who-ate-the-canary conspiracists. The man who promised in 2008 to make government cool again is instead batting away charges that he has made government “Nixonian” again.
Asked about that on Thursday, Obama might have tried a little J.F.K. wit to dismiss the ridiculous assertion. Instead, he played the pill, as he too often does, huffily telling reporters, “Well, I’ll let you guys engage in those comparisons, and you can go ahead and read the history, I think, and draw your own conclusions.”
The onetime messiah seems like a sad sack, trying to bounce back from a blistering array of sins that are not even his fault. He went to Baltimore on Friday to talk about jobs. But no one was listening. Everybody in the country who hates the I.R.S. — so, then, everybody — was listening to the lugubrious acting I.R.S. commissioner who had been ousted, Steven Miller, tell a House committee that he didn’t know who was to blame for the scheme to unfairly scrutinize conservative groups with words like “Tea Party” and “Patriot” in their titles.
“Is this still America?” demanded Congressman Kevin Brady, a Republican from Texas.
It turns out that Treasury officials knew during the 2012 campaign that an investigation into the targeting was going on. But, enhancing his image as a stranger in a strange land, the president said he learned about it from news reports on May 10. Then he waited three days to descend from the mountain and express outrage.
Democrats are not worried that the rumpuses will hurt Obama’s personal appeal or reputation for integrity. But it can’t help the president’s already limited ability to get anything done in a Congress full of Republicans who live to thwart him, and it may impede his plan to win back the House.
Democrats fret that it will hurt them in 2014. As one strategist put it: “Now the kooky, paranoid Tea Party people will believe they had a reason to be paranoid. And there’s no better way to express their feelings than to vote next year.”
Certainly Obama is getting a clearer understanding that the biggest downside of having the other party control a branch of Congress is its ability to use investigations and subpoenas as anvils.
Unfortunately, the sound and fury and battle for clicks will make the already aggrieved president, who considers himself a serious person stuck in an unserious time, even more aggrieved. The Times’s Peter Baker reported that Obama feels so stymied that he dreams of “going Bulworth,” a reference to the Warren Beatty movie in which a depressed and fading Democratic senator from California starts rapping, speaking with politically incorrect candor and dating Halle Berry.
The president should try candid; wistful and petulant aren’t getting him anywhere. The Republicans who are putting partisan gain above solving the country’s problems deserve a smackdown.
Obama the candidate was romanticized as the pristine relief from Clinton scandals. But his pure personal life did not exempt him from running a government awash in old-school screw-ups.
The Clintons have emerged stronger on the back end of their scandals. For better or worse, Bill is seen as authentic. He is what he is. America’s ultimate survivors are now truly potent or dangerous, depending on how you look at it, because Americans love them Bridget Jones-style, just the way they are, warts and all. “Hillary Clinton eats scandals for breakfast,” Bill Maher said. “If the Republicans keep this up, she’ll not only be president, she’ll appoint Bill to the Supreme Court.”
Obama would never pull what Hillary pulled with her longtime aide Huma Abedin. Abedin was allowed, after the birth of her and Anthony Weiner’s son, to work part time as a top adviser in the State Department for $135,000 while also working as a consultant for private clients, some of whom had to be interested in her influence in the government.
As Politico reported, the arrangement was similar to the way many of Hillary’s aides were paid while she was a senator: “They were compensated partly through work on her government staff, and partly through her political action committee.” And others would later land lucrative gigs at Clinton-friendly organizations.
Hillary has a blind spot on ethics, not minding if things look terrible if they’re technically legit. And she has a tight grip on money, so she didn’t choose to simply shift Huma to her personal payroll.
But Americans have already priced in the imperfections of the Clintons.
Who knows? If Washington keeps imploding, Hillary may run in 2016 on restoring honor to the White House.
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Alabama coach Nick Saban
with the National Championship trophy after defeating Notre Dame.
(Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune / January 7, 2013)
He likely has human side
Teddy Greenstein, Chicago Tribune
What struck me while watching "The Blind Side" was the quality of the acting. Not Sandra Bullock, who won an Oscar, but Nick Saban. Playing himself, the guy actually came across as human. A charming human.
Is Saban as bad a guy as many say? Probably, but I have no firsthand knowledge. What I do know is that some of his SEC competitors have concluded: OK, we can't beat this guy. But if we can advance the perception that he's evil, maybe Alabama will lose a recruit or two.
Saban should own his rep. Appear somewhere with devil horns. Instead he seems hurt by the comments, even saying he'd like to "fix" his offensive behavior. What do you know? Maybe he actually is human.
tgreenstein@tribune.com
Sure seems to be
Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times
Hating on Nick Saban has been a non-Olympic sport for years now and that's coming from people inside his department, so it shouldn't shock anyone that people outside of the Alabama program don't like him. This is a story now because there is no offseason in the SEC so it becomes "news" in the "Uga days of May" when a former assistant, now at Florida, calls Saban "the devil himself."
As if there has ever been a doubt. Stories of working for Saban are legend, if not apocryphal. The best one I heard is that staffers are not allowed to address him directly during the season while he's busy beating the pigskin pants off former assistants now working at Florida. The only way to get back at Saban is to turn him into the crummy coach he was for the Miami Dolphins.
Calling "the devil" or "Nicky Satan" a coach who has won three BCS titles since 2008 smacks of a negative recruiting along the dusty, cutthroat SEC trail. The campaign, by the way, is failing miserably. And why would anyone think it's smart to turn the heat up on the devil?
cdufresne@tribune.com
A smile would be nice
Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel
If Nick Saban is "the devil himself," as Florida assistant coach Tim Davis suggested earlier this week, then that explains a lot. How else can you explain Alabama winning three of the last four BCS national championships? If that's what it takes, then Sabanism will be on the rise among college football coaches.
All kidding aside, Saban's prickly personality and winning track record have made him an easy target among his coaching peers as well as the media. Recruiters need every advantage out there when competing with a powerhouse like Alabama, and what better tool than making Saban out to be a villain. Everyone needs a foil, and Saban appears to be college football's Darth Vader.
Maybe a smile once and a while wouldn't hurt Saban, but he seems to be doing OK so far. I'm sure he could not care less what others think of him as long as he continues to win football games.
mmurschel@tribune.com
Consumed by perfection
Dieter Kurtenbach, Sun Sentinel
Nick Saban isn't the devil, as Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin and Florida assistant Tim Davis have recently alleged. That said, I'm not sure what else you would call someone who is so maniacal about winning yet seems to derive no joy from success.
What makes Saban different is that he doesn't have time for anything that doesn't progress Alabama football. Saban preaches "the process" to his team, and he's a living embodiment of the system. Whether it be the byproduct of short-man syndrome or something more sinister, Saban has put it upon himself to perfect college football, and that mission consumes his entire being.
Is he a nice guy? Perhaps, but he only lets his guard down for five minutes a year. The rest of the time, he's running roughshod over the BCS.
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Saban Compared To Satan
Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless discuss whether it's appropriate to compare Nick Saban to Satan.
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Is Nick Saban as bad as some are saying?
Alabama coach Nick Saban
with the National Championship trophy after defeating Notre Dame.
(Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune / January 7, 2013)He likely has human side
Teddy Greenstein, Chicago Tribune
What struck me while watching "The Blind Side" was the quality of the acting. Not Sandra Bullock, who won an Oscar, but Nick Saban. Playing himself, the guy actually came across as human. A charming human.
Is Saban as bad a guy as many say? Probably, but I have no firsthand knowledge. What I do know is that some of his SEC competitors have concluded: OK, we can't beat this guy. But if we can advance the perception that he's evil, maybe Alabama will lose a recruit or two.
Saban should own his rep. Appear somewhere with devil horns. Instead he seems hurt by the comments, even saying he'd like to "fix" his offensive behavior. What do you know? Maybe he actually is human.
tgreenstein@tribune.com
Sure seems to be
Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times
Hating on Nick Saban has been a non-Olympic sport for years now and that's coming from people inside his department, so it shouldn't shock anyone that people outside of the Alabama program don't like him. This is a story now because there is no offseason in the SEC so it becomes "news" in the "Uga days of May" when a former assistant, now at Florida, calls Saban "the devil himself."
As if there has ever been a doubt. Stories of working for Saban are legend, if not apocryphal. The best one I heard is that staffers are not allowed to address him directly during the season while he's busy beating the pigskin pants off former assistants now working at Florida. The only way to get back at Saban is to turn him into the crummy coach he was for the Miami Dolphins.
Calling "the devil" or "Nicky Satan" a coach who has won three BCS titles since 2008 smacks of a negative recruiting along the dusty, cutthroat SEC trail. The campaign, by the way, is failing miserably. And why would anyone think it's smart to turn the heat up on the devil?
cdufresne@tribune.com
A smile would be nice
Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel
If Nick Saban is "the devil himself," as Florida assistant coach Tim Davis suggested earlier this week, then that explains a lot. How else can you explain Alabama winning three of the last four BCS national championships? If that's what it takes, then Sabanism will be on the rise among college football coaches.
All kidding aside, Saban's prickly personality and winning track record have made him an easy target among his coaching peers as well as the media. Recruiters need every advantage out there when competing with a powerhouse like Alabama, and what better tool than making Saban out to be a villain. Everyone needs a foil, and Saban appears to be college football's Darth Vader.
Maybe a smile once and a while wouldn't hurt Saban, but he seems to be doing OK so far. I'm sure he could not care less what others think of him as long as he continues to win football games.
mmurschel@tribune.com
Consumed by perfection
Dieter Kurtenbach, Sun Sentinel
Nick Saban isn't the devil, as Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin and Florida assistant Tim Davis have recently alleged. That said, I'm not sure what else you would call someone who is so maniacal about winning yet seems to derive no joy from success.
What makes Saban different is that he doesn't have time for anything that doesn't progress Alabama football. Saban preaches "the process" to his team, and he's a living embodiment of the system. Whether it be the byproduct of short-man syndrome or something more sinister, Saban has put it upon himself to perfect college football, and that mission consumes his entire being.
Is he a nice guy? Perhaps, but he only lets his guard down for five minutes a year. The rest of the time, he's running roughshod over the BCS.
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Little Richard - "Slippin' & Slidin'"
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The
story of Les Miles coaching LSU footall team seem much like the Little
Richard song "Slippin' & Slidin" from one promising college football
season into the other.
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SEC Blog
Where's the respect for LSU's Les Miles?
April, 15, 2013
By
Chris Low | ESPN.com
You could ask 20 different people to rank the best coaches in the SEC 1 through 14, and you might get 20 different lists.
It's hard to imagine that anyone wouldn't have Alabama's Nick Saban in the top spot. When you win three out of the last four national championships, you're doing a lot of things right. Even those fans who detest Alabama would have a hard time not putting Saban No. 1.
After that, it's a crap shoot, and the other thing to remember is that a coach ranked near the top right now could plummet two or three years from now. It changes in a hurry in this league.
Athlon Sports has ranked all 125 FBS head coaches, and Saban not surprisingly was No. 1. Ohio State's Urban Meyer was No. 2 and Kansas State's Bill Snyder No. 3.
There were five SEC head coaches in the top 20, which again isn't surprising.
What is surprising is that LSU's Les Miles wasn't one of them.
South Carolina's Steve Spurrier was the second SEC coach on the list at No. 5 overall. Georgia's Mark Richt was No. 11, Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin No. 16 and Vanderbilt's James Franklin No. 17.
And where's Miles?
Try No. 24 nationally ... and seventh in the SEC.
Mississippi State's Dan Mullen was ranked just ahead of Miles at No. 23, and new Arkansas coach Bret Bielema was right behind Miles at No. 25.
Nobody's arguing that Miles isn't quirky and downright strange at times. There have been some well-documented clock management issues on his watch and the giant egg the Tigers laid offensively in the 2011 BCS National Championship Game.
But doesn't winning 11 or more games in five of your eight seasons in the toughest conference in the country count for something? One of the supposed knocks on Miles is that he has great talent. That's always been one of my favorites.
In the realm of college football, nothing is more important than acquiring talent and developing that talent.
Wimp Sanderson, the former Alabama basketball coach, used to always have a classic comeback any time somebody would try and temper his success with the argument that he always had great players.
"You oughta get you some because they sure make coaching a lot easier," Sanderson would say.
Some critics dismiss Miles' success by saying anyone could win big at a place like LSU with its resources, tradition and fertile recruiting grounds. Without a doubt, LSU is one of the top coaching jobs in all of college football. I'd also point out, however, that from 1989-99, the Tigers had just three winning seasons. Miles, by contrast, has won 10 or more in six of his eight seasons.
I wouldn't necessarily have Miles in my top 3 coaches in the SEC, but he'd certainly be in my top 5.
Here's a look at how Athlon Sports ranked the SEC head coaches:
1. Nick Saban, Alabama
2. Steve Spurrier, South Carolina
3. Mark Richt, Georgia
4. Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M
5. James Franklin, Vanderbilt
6. Dan Mullen, Mississippi State
7. Les Miles, LSU
8. Bret Bielema, Arkansas
9. Hugh Freeze, Ole Miss
10. Will Muschamp, Florida
11. Butch Jones, Tennessee
12. Gary Pinkel, Missouri
13. Gus Malzahn, Auburn
14. Mark Stoops, Kentucky
Who's too high, and who's too low? Let us know, and we'll re-visit this topic later in the week.
You could ask 20 different people to rank the best coaches in the SEC 1 through 14, and you might get 20 different lists.
It's hard to imagine that anyone wouldn't have Alabama's Nick Saban in the top spot. When you win three out of the last four national championships, you're doing a lot of things right. Even those fans who detest Alabama would have a hard time not putting Saban No. 1.
After that, it's a crap shoot, and the other thing to remember is that a coach ranked near the top right now could plummet two or three years from now. It changes in a hurry in this league.
Athlon Sports has ranked all 125 FBS head coaches, and Saban not surprisingly was No. 1. Ohio State's Urban Meyer was No. 2 and Kansas State's Bill Snyder No. 3.
There were five SEC head coaches in the top 20, which again isn't surprising.
What is surprising is that LSU's Les Miles wasn't one of them.
South Carolina's Steve Spurrier was the second SEC coach on the list at No. 5 overall. Georgia's Mark Richt was No. 11, Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin No. 16 and Vanderbilt's James Franklin No. 17.
And where's Miles?
Try No. 24 nationally ... and seventh in the SEC.
Mississippi State's Dan Mullen was ranked just ahead of Miles at No. 23, and new Arkansas coach Bret Bielema was right behind Miles at No. 25.
Nobody's arguing that Miles isn't quirky and downright strange at times. There have been some well-documented clock management issues on his watch and the giant egg the Tigers laid offensively in the 2011 BCS National Championship Game.
But doesn't winning 11 or more games in five of your eight seasons in the toughest conference in the country count for something? One of the supposed knocks on Miles is that he has great talent. That's always been one of my favorites.
In the realm of college football, nothing is more important than acquiring talent and developing that talent.
Wimp Sanderson, the former Alabama basketball coach, used to always have a classic comeback any time somebody would try and temper his success with the argument that he always had great players.
"You oughta get you some because they sure make coaching a lot easier," Sanderson would say.
Some critics dismiss Miles' success by saying anyone could win big at a place like LSU with its resources, tradition and fertile recruiting grounds. Without a doubt, LSU is one of the top coaching jobs in all of college football. I'd also point out, however, that from 1989-99, the Tigers had just three winning seasons. Miles, by contrast, has won 10 or more in six of his eight seasons.
I wouldn't necessarily have Miles in my top 3 coaches in the SEC, but he'd certainly be in my top 5.
Here's a look at how Athlon Sports ranked the SEC head coaches:
1. Nick Saban, Alabama
2. Steve Spurrier, South Carolina
3. Mark Richt, Georgia
4. Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M
5. James Franklin, Vanderbilt
6. Dan Mullen, Mississippi State
7. Les Miles, LSU
8. Bret Bielema, Arkansas
9. Hugh Freeze, Ole Miss
10. Will Muschamp, Florida
11. Butch Jones, Tennessee
12. Gary Pinkel, Missouri
13. Gus Malzahn, Auburn
14. Mark Stoops, Kentucky
Who's too high, and who's too low? Let us know, and we'll re-visit this topic later in the week.
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With the closing acts of the 2012-13 athletic year about to be played out at LSU, bats and balls and pads and cleats will be giving ground to construction cranes and concrete trucks.
Though LSU’s athletic plant is never truly in a state of completion — the state of the art in facilities being a constantly moving target — the next year and a half promises to be an exceptionally busy time.
By the end of 2014, plans call for the completion of Tiger Stadium’s latest addition, a new tennis complex, the start of a gymnastics practice facility, a home for LSU’s newest sport and more.
Here’s a look at LSU’s latest facility improvement plans:
Work is in high gear at both ends of Tiger Stadium.
On the south side, workers are laying the foundations for what will be about a 7,500-seat addition that will include club seats, suites, an upper deck seating area, standing room only areas, and new video scoreboards in the southeast and southwest corners of the old coliseum.
The project, to be completed for the start of the 2014 season, will bring Tiger Stadium’s capacity to approximately 100,000.
At the north end, workers are installing an expanded scoreboard and sound system. Eddie Nunez, LSU’s associate athletic director for operations and project development, said the sound system will be calibrated to take into account the south stadium addition.
The scoreboard and sound system at the south end has been removed for the construction project.
Also to be completed for this season: a rebuilt walkway around the north end of the stadium to replace old and cracked concrete; new entrance gates; and the replacement of old, rusted dormitory windows on the east and west sides of the stadium.
“When we replace all the windows this summer, it’ll look like it did when it was new,” Athletic Director Joe Alleva said. “We don’t want to change the character of the stadium, just restore it.”
The south stadium construction project is part of a $100 million bond issued by the Tiger Athletic Foundation (TAF), LSU’s athletic fundraising organization. That money includes funding for the tennis and gymnastics facilities.
W.T. “Dub” Robinson Tennis Stadium just north of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center has been home to the LSU tennis programs since 1976, but the lack of indoor playing facilities has been an anchor from a recruiting standpoint.
That will soon change. Work will begin late this year on a complex with 12 outdoor and six indoor tennis courts, with a target date for completion between August 2014 and January 2015.
“It’s such a big step for the programs, for recruiting,” said men’s coach Jeff Brown, a former All-Southeastern Conference singles player as a Tiger and LSU’s coach since 1998. “You have to be able to show the commitment.
“Our facility will be a big bonus.”
The tennis complex will be built across from Alex Box Stadium on Gourrier Avenue, next to the LSU Ag Center’s LaHouse facility.
According to Brown, the indoor courts building will cover about 75,000 square feet and will include players lounges, locker rooms and a satellite training room.
Brown said the program is still seeking to sell naming rights for the facility but said there has been interest from the family of the late Dub Robinson, who served as LSU’s coach for nearly three decades.
Never one to mince words, LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux said her program is at a disadvantage with regard to facilities to virtually every other top-20 team in the nation.
With the addition of a practice facility, Breaux is excited about the prospects for her program.
“This not just a want,” Breaux said. “This is a need. We have built some beautiful facilities on this campus, which have enhanced the future of our other programs. That is what this will do for us.”
Gymnastics currently works out of a training hall in the Carl Maddox Field House that Breaux said is inadequate for the multiple training stations LSU needs.
Work will begin on the gymnastics facility sometime after groundbreaking on the tennis facility, Breaux said.
Alleva said it will be built on one of two parking lots between the north side of the PMAC and Robinson Tennis Stadium.
Breaux said the practice facility will allow gymnastics, which finished fifth in the NCAA Super Six last month, to compete even more successfully.
“If we finished fifth with the worst facilities (among top-20 teams), having this facility will really help our growth,” said Breaux, who said she has no plans to retire before the building is completed.
“We are so handicapped by our limitations. We’re really excited by what we’re able to offer our team and show recruits.”
LSU’s recently announced sand volleyball program will begin play in spring 2014, though just where remains a bit unclear.
Nunez said feasibility studies are underway to see if Robinson Stadium can be converted to accommodate the new sport. If not, a location will have to be found somewhere else, he said.
Meanwhile, the sand volleyball program will likely play its first season at a temporary facility, though senior associate athletic director Herb Vincent said those plans haven’t been finalized yet.
LSU coach Fran Flory will oversee both the indoor and sand volleyball programs. Sand volleyball is the first addition to LSU’s athletic program since softball in 1997.
LSU is exploring plans to build a nutrition center as part of its athletics complex, Alleva said.
There is no timetable for the project, but Alleva said fundraising is underway. He said no money will be borrowed to build the nutrition center, which he estimated will cost about $9 million to $10 million.
Current plans are to build the nutrition center at LSU’s football facility, though it would serve all of the school’s student-athletes.
In addition to helping LSU’s student-athletes eat better, the nutrition center will give LSU a place to entertain recruits and their families while on unofficial visits.
Alleva said he is seeking to sell naming rights for the facility.
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LSU goes on building spree
With the closing acts of the 2012-13 athletic year about to be played out at LSU, bats and balls and pads and cleats will be giving ground to construction cranes and concrete trucks.
Though LSU’s athletic plant is never truly in a state of completion — the state of the art in facilities being a constantly moving target — the next year and a half promises to be an exceptionally busy time.
By the end of 2014, plans call for the completion of Tiger Stadium’s latest addition, a new tennis complex, the start of a gymnastics practice facility, a home for LSU’s newest sport and more.
Here’s a look at LSU’s latest facility improvement plans:
Tiger Stadium
Work is in high gear at both ends of Tiger Stadium.
On the south side, workers are laying the foundations for what will be about a 7,500-seat addition that will include club seats, suites, an upper deck seating area, standing room only areas, and new video scoreboards in the southeast and southwest corners of the old coliseum.
The project, to be completed for the start of the 2014 season, will bring Tiger Stadium’s capacity to approximately 100,000.
At the north end, workers are installing an expanded scoreboard and sound system. Eddie Nunez, LSU’s associate athletic director for operations and project development, said the sound system will be calibrated to take into account the south stadium addition.
The scoreboard and sound system at the south end has been removed for the construction project.
Also to be completed for this season: a rebuilt walkway around the north end of the stadium to replace old and cracked concrete; new entrance gates; and the replacement of old, rusted dormitory windows on the east and west sides of the stadium.
“When we replace all the windows this summer, it’ll look like it did when it was new,” Athletic Director Joe Alleva said. “We don’t want to change the character of the stadium, just restore it.”
The south stadium construction project is part of a $100 million bond issued by the Tiger Athletic Foundation (TAF), LSU’s athletic fundraising organization. That money includes funding for the tennis and gymnastics facilities.
Tennis complex
W.T. “Dub” Robinson Tennis Stadium just north of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center has been home to the LSU tennis programs since 1976, but the lack of indoor playing facilities has been an anchor from a recruiting standpoint.
That will soon change. Work will begin late this year on a complex with 12 outdoor and six indoor tennis courts, with a target date for completion between August 2014 and January 2015.
“It’s such a big step for the programs, for recruiting,” said men’s coach Jeff Brown, a former All-Southeastern Conference singles player as a Tiger and LSU’s coach since 1998. “You have to be able to show the commitment.
“Our facility will be a big bonus.”
The tennis complex will be built across from Alex Box Stadium on Gourrier Avenue, next to the LSU Ag Center’s LaHouse facility.
According to Brown, the indoor courts building will cover about 75,000 square feet and will include players lounges, locker rooms and a satellite training room.
Brown said the program is still seeking to sell naming rights for the facility but said there has been interest from the family of the late Dub Robinson, who served as LSU’s coach for nearly three decades.
Gymnastics practice facility
Never one to mince words, LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux said her program is at a disadvantage with regard to facilities to virtually every other top-20 team in the nation.
With the addition of a practice facility, Breaux is excited about the prospects for her program.
“This not just a want,” Breaux said. “This is a need. We have built some beautiful facilities on this campus, which have enhanced the future of our other programs. That is what this will do for us.”
Gymnastics currently works out of a training hall in the Carl Maddox Field House that Breaux said is inadequate for the multiple training stations LSU needs.
Work will begin on the gymnastics facility sometime after groundbreaking on the tennis facility, Breaux said.
Alleva said it will be built on one of two parking lots between the north side of the PMAC and Robinson Tennis Stadium.
Breaux said the practice facility will allow gymnastics, which finished fifth in the NCAA Super Six last month, to compete even more successfully.
“If we finished fifth with the worst facilities (among top-20 teams), having this facility will really help our growth,” said Breaux, who said she has no plans to retire before the building is completed.
“We are so handicapped by our limitations. We’re really excited by what we’re able to offer our team and show recruits.”
Sand volleyball
LSU’s recently announced sand volleyball program will begin play in spring 2014, though just where remains a bit unclear.
Nunez said feasibility studies are underway to see if Robinson Stadium can be converted to accommodate the new sport. If not, a location will have to be found somewhere else, he said.
Meanwhile, the sand volleyball program will likely play its first season at a temporary facility, though senior associate athletic director Herb Vincent said those plans haven’t been finalized yet.
LSU coach Fran Flory will oversee both the indoor and sand volleyball programs. Sand volleyball is the first addition to LSU’s athletic program since softball in 1997.
Nutrition center
LSU is exploring plans to build a nutrition center as part of its athletics complex, Alleva said.
There is no timetable for the project, but Alleva said fundraising is underway. He said no money will be borrowed to build the nutrition center, which he estimated will cost about $9 million to $10 million.
Current plans are to build the nutrition center at LSU’s football facility, though it would serve all of the school’s student-athletes.
In addition to helping LSU’s student-athletes eat better, the nutrition center will give LSU a place to entertain recruits and their families while on unofficial visits.
Alleva said he is seeking to sell naming rights for the facility.
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