LSU's coach TRASHES USC, PAC-10, and other Conferences
I love Les Miles, LSU's football coach. The college football world is now BUZZING with the truth he just served up. Les Miles stated what every LSU fan and most SEC football fans have been thinking for YEARS. Matt Hayes, writer for The Sporting News, further stoked the Pac-10 vs SEC battle HERE.This was some of what Coach Les Miles said as reported in Baton Rouge's newspaper, The Morning Advocate:
"I can tell you this, that they have a much easier road to travel,” Miles said of the Trojans.
“They’re going to play real knockdown drag-outs with UCLA and Washington, Cal-Berkley, Stanford — some real juggernauts — and they’re going to end up, it would be my guess, in some position so if they win a game or two, that they’ll end up in the title (game). I would like that path for us.
“I think the SEC provides much stiffer competition.”
Miles said the subject of the SEC’s superiority came up at league meetings in May. The conference office compiled statistics showing 58 football players from SEC schools were invited to the NFL Scouting Combine, where pro scouts and coaches evaluate players before the draft.The Atlantic Coast Conference and Big 12 Conference each had 43 players invited, NFL records show. The Pac-10 was fourth with 39 players invited.
Based on the above and two seasons of coaching in the SEC, Miles told his New Orleans audience the conference, from week to week, is the football league “most like the NFL” in America.
Now Les Miles is getting badmouthed by the sports media that like to pretend the ACC and PAC-10 are real football conferences. That is hogwash. Why any network would televise a North Carolina Tarheel or Arizona Wildcat football game renders me utterly speechless. LSU and the rest of the SEC are above and beyond any of the other football conferences.
Want proof? Last year, The Florida Gators impaled poll favorite Ohio State 41-14 in the BCS Championship game. LSU stomped on media darling Brady Quinn's Notre Dame 41-14 in the BCS Sugar Bowl. Tennessee blew out the Pac-10's supposed #2 best team Cal of Berkeley in the regular season. Cal is located in the most pansiest place on earth. And that is the Pac-10's #2 team! What does that say about the Pac-10?
The only teams that seem to be capable of beating an SEC team is another SEC team! I am SOOOO ready for SEC FOOTBALL! Football in the South is our true national past time. GEAUX TIGERS!!! Geaux SEC!
posted by Brettcajun at Tuesday, July 03, 2007
7 Comments:
"“most like the NFL”"
And you're proud of that?
You still don't understand the importance of the education side of college, do you?
Maybe instead of getting a new tiger, LSU should change their mascot to an elephant; they already have the name.
Football and drinking is about all there is to do in the South.
Oh my GOSH!!! We are barely into summer and he's already taking LSU football. Someone 'bithslap' my Cajun bud, please. LOL. Love ya bud!!
No question that Florida had a great season last year and that LSU made my Irish look bad. That said, LSU's 2007 schedule includes such notable creampuffs as: Middle Tennessee... South Carolina... Tulane... Kentucky... Louisiana Tech... Ole Miss...
You get Florida, Auburn & Arkansas at home... you only play 4 games out of the state of Louisiana... LSU hardly needs any help.
You also seem to forget that Southern Cal blew out Arkansas (which choked away the SEC Championship to Florida) 50 to 14.
The SEC is a great conference but they should try scheduling someone of consequence out of conference.
Hey, Marc... I am all for the SEC vs Pac-10 non-conference battles. They should line up both conferences against each other one year to finally settle the debate. I don't think the Pac-10 will fare well though. But it would definitely bring an excitement to the game.
Maybe I am biased, being and SEC fan, but I do agree that the SEC has a greater depth of strong teams than other conferences.
But you can't dismiss that there are great teams in other conferences as well. Teams that can(and will) beat SEC teams.
If you really think about it, on any given day, depending on circumstances (like home field, off weeks, tough previous weeks, who's hurt, etc. any quality team can win and any quality team can lose.
Look at two years ago when LSU's only loss was to a Tennessee team that suffered its worst season in 17 years.
And you have to admit that LSU plays a pretty easy non-conference schedule as well as plays in the west division of the conference which historically has been the weaker side of the conference depth -wise. And you have most of your tough games at home.
Tennessee, on the other hand, has all it's big games (Cal, Florida, Alabama, etc) on the road. Georgia is the only quality home game. If we can make something out of that, then there is something to toot your horn about.
But honestly, with all the bad-mouthing and trash-talk, it's getting harder to enjoy the game.
But, on a lighter note...guess who's boyfriend has season tickets and also works for a company with a luxury box.
I love seeing great intersectional games. ASU should have beaten your Tigers when they played a couple of years ago -- with Dennis Erickson they should be much improved. I think they'll give LSU all they can handle when they make the trip out to Baton Rouge.
That said, certainly the SEC has very strong teams at the top -- Florida, LSU, Auburn -- more than the PAC does, which is what happens historically when USC is so dominant. But in a year or two I think you'll find that UCLA, ASU and Cal (along with USC, of course) would give the top of the SEC a run for its money.
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