Rich Rod is out. Will Michigan go after Les Miles again?
Congratulations to The Ohio State University for beating Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl and posting its first win over an SEC team in a bowl game. It has been duly noted that thanks to the creative enforcement of the NCAA, Terrelle Pryor and the rest of the Ohio State Five made their contributions to the victory and we salute you for it. College football looks forward to having each and every one of you back for the 2011 season, when you will serve your five-game suspension. (Regular readers of this blog may insert their well wishes here.)
Wait a minute Tony, you SEC shill. Isn’t Auburn’s Cameron Newton playing in the national championship game Monday night because of the same inexplicable NCAA enforcement process?
Nope. I’ll explain on Thusday but today I want to talk about something fun.
And oh my goodness, this has a chance to be fun.
Michigan finally announced Wednesday morning that coach Rich Rodriguez has been fired.
There is no doubt that Michigan’s No. 1 choice is Stanford’ Jim Harbaugh but it sounds like he is not interested in returning to his alma mater
So if Harbaugh stays at Stanford or goes to the NFL, does Michigan take another run at at LSU’s Les Miles?
Miles was an offensive guard for Bo Schembechler from 1973-75. Randy Rosetta of the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate reports that Miles played one of those seasons with Brandon, who was a backup quarterback for Michigan and went on to make a fortune in the pizza business.
It’s pretty clear that a lot of the lettermen and alumni want a “Michigan man” back in charge of the program.
Remember that on Championship Saturday, 2007, ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit reportered that Miles was headed back to Michigan. Just hours before the SEC Championship game in Atlanta LSU called a press conference and Miles angrily denied the report and said he was staying put. Miles became a member of the YouTube Hall of Fame that day when he told us to “Have A Great Day.” Then his LSU team went on to win the SEC championship and the National Championship.
Miles was bumped up to a salary of $3.751 million (one thousand more than Nick Saban) the following year) and he stayed at LSU.
But since the national championship in 2007 Miles has caught more than his fair share of grief. After some of the time management gaffes of 2009 and the continuing struggles on offense, a lot of LSU people wanted this guy gone. For about 90 seconds, when it appeared LSU had lost to Tennessee back in October, it appeared Miles was done at LSU.
Miles just pulls one escape after another and this season he beat Alabama, won 10 games, and has the Tigers in Friday’s Cotton Bowl against Texas A&M.
So if Michigan offers, would he be tempted to go this time?
A word of advice for the Michigan athletics director. If you really want the LSU coach you really only have to say two things to him:’
1) We would like the priviledge of paying you $5 million per year to coach our football team.
2) Michigan needs you. Bo would want you to come home and get us back to the Rose Bowl.
I think that would do it. Les Miles might just decide it is time to move on from the weekly insanity that is the SEC. And even if he stays in Baton Rouge, the process would be a really entertaining thing to watch.
If you were Les Miles and your alma called, would you go?
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Bear's Ghost
January 5th, 2011
3:00 pm
@Karl -2:58 — When did LSU play Alaska????
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:01 pm
@SEC Elite – Again I must ask who you’re rooting for. Surely, it can’t be the entire SEC.
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:02 pm
@Bear’s Ghost – LOL, sorry make that AR. You obviously work for the post office.
Stephen
January 5th, 2011
3:02 pm
@Cooper. LSU also got a phantom “celebration penalty” though Green did celebrate. The difference? LSU drove down the field and scored while Georgia turned it over. Maybe watch the whole game next time?
Musashi
January 5th, 2011
3:04 pm
The Karl Childers
Please refrain from the profanity, kids read this blog. Thank you.
gcs
January 5th, 2011
3:11 pm
I can’t see Les miles leaving LSU now. Michigan is a big stinking mess and LSU is an elite team.
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The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:11 pm
@Good Grief – That’s seven CONSENSUS national championships for the Ohio State Buckeyes and seven others that are not recognized by the NCAA or the school itself.
@Musashi – Just ask your mommy to filter your internet access.
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:13 pm
@gcs – Elite teams haven’t played in the Cotton Bowl since the 1970’s.
Buckeye
January 5th, 2011
3:14 pm
To all you blithering “DAWG” fans……..When it’s all said and done, when one looks back at this season, would you rather:
A) Be 12-1, won a BCS Bowl vs. the SEC and ranked again in the top 5
OR
B) Be 6-7, be part of a fanbase stammering to fire your coach, OC, DC, lose a 3rd Tier Bowl to a Conf USA Team and be unranked?
Hmmm?
As fars as the NCAA and violiations, etc., don’t beat up the kids, adults made the decisions. Kids do what kids do, make dumb selfish mistakes.
GO BUCKS! SECville SUCKS!
BAMA dude
January 5th, 2011
3:14 pm
Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
1:52 pm
@Spinoza – The Ohio State University is 5-4 in BCS bowl games, considered the modern standard of bowl excellence.
5-4? Average. Yay!
dawgster
January 5th, 2011
3:16 pm
@The Karl Childers….either clean up your act with the language or your link will be posted…this is your last warning….Your behavior is childlike….You have been asked to clean it up by several people…I would take heed to that….
ARdawg
January 5th, 2011
3:17 pm
cooper
Miracle touchdowns? Aren’t all touchdowns miracles? Listen plumehead are you the same numbskull as bahwahh? Are you aware that the team with the most points at the end of the game actually is the team who wins the game? Do you have a rule book that states a miracle touchdown is worth less than 6 points over a well planned, executed touchdown? I didn’t think so, now get busy building them pizzas
Mike
January 5th, 2011
3:17 pm
JBT – LSU gave up 31 to AK, Ohio State gave up 26. LSU scored 23 against AK, Ohio State scored 31. Therefore, I must conclude that OSU would have handily defeated LSU if LSU had qualified for the Sugar Bowl. Which they didn’t. Thank you very much. Consider yourself bitch-slapped.
The Karl Childers……………..The difference in the 2 games was that the Ark. receivers
didn’t have a severe case of the dropsies when they played LSU. Ark, no doubt, would have won that game last night, if the receivers would have caught all of the passes they dropped.
Ark. probably would have won by 14 pts.
That being said though, I would like to say I was impressed with OSU. Your D line did a hell of a job putting pressure on Mallet and Pryor is a hell of an athlete! with a great set of receivers.
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:19 pm
@Bama dude – You can’t be average and make it to a BCS bowl. That’s 5-4 against the cream of the college crop, dude. You dig?
ARdawg
January 5th, 2011
3:19 pm
Buckeye
Don’t lose you composure in the face of victory. It is very unbecoming. If you can’t gloat with a trace of class, don’t gloat at all
Buckeye
January 5th, 2011
3:20 pm
Sugar Bowl Champions! Nope, it’s not 1980.
The 2011 Sugar Bowl Champions THE Ohio State University!
Buckeye
January 5th, 2011
3:22 pm
AR Dawg,
Gloat? Who me? Read your fellow “Dawg” posters than we can talk about gloating.
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:23 pm
@dawgster – only Musashi has complained, besides a bitch is just a female dog. Very common phrase among bulldog breeders. Get your mind out of the gutter, man.
SEC Elite
January 5th, 2011
3:24 pm
What K-K-K-K-Karl? No rebuttal?
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:25 pm
@Mike – So let me get this straight. If they hadn’t actually played the game, Arkansas would have won by 14 points? Brilliant.
SEC Elite
January 5th, 2011
3:28 pm
TO ALL OHIO STATE FANS WHO THINK LAST NIGHT WAS A TRIUMPH!
The overall record for football for SEC teams versus Ohio State:
SEC – 11 wins, 6 losses, and 2 ties
These statistics date back to 1865
SEC Wins:
Alabama – 24, Ohio State – 17 (1995 Citrus Bowl)
Alabama – 16, Ohio State – 10 (1986 Kickoff Classic)
Alabama – 35, Ohio State – 6 (1978 Sugar Bowl)
Auburn – 31, Ohio State – 14 (1990 HallofFame Bowl)
LSU – 38, Ohio State – 24 (2008 BCS Nat’l Champ)
Georgia – 21, Ohio State – 14 (1993 Citrus Bowl)
Florida – 41, Ohio State – 14 (2007 BCS Nat’l Champ)
S. Carolina – 31, Ohio State – 28 (2002 Outback Bowl)
S. Carolina – 24, Ohio State – 7 (2001 Outback Bowl)
Tennessee – 20, Ohio State – 14 (1996 Citrus Bowl)
Vanderbilt – 26, Ohio State – 21 (1931)
Ohio State Wins versus the SEC:
LSU – 33, Ohio State – 36 (1988)
Arkansas – 26, Ohio State – 26 (2010 Sugar Bowl)
Vanderbilt – 0, Ohio State – 20 (1933)
Vanderbilt – 0, Ohio State – 5 (1909)
Kentucky – 6, Ohio State – 19 (1935)
Kentucky – 0, Ohio State – 49 (1919)
Ties with the SEC and OSU:
Auburn – 0, OSU – 0 (1917)
LSU – 13, OSU – 13 (1977)
BAMA dude
January 5th, 2011
3:28 pm
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:19 pm
@Bama dude – You can’t be average and make it to a BCS bowl. That’s 5-4 against the cream of the college crop, dude. You dig?
Actually, if tOSU had lost one more time, #9 Michigan St. would been in the Rose Bowl. 49-7. You dig?
Oh, and tOSU is actually 6-3 in BCS Bowl games. Of course, five of the six wins came against teams who finished with three losses and out of the top ten.
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:30 pm
@SEC Elite – Kudos to Alabama and South Carolina for multiple wins over Ohio State. Any others are one -hit wonders.
ARdawg
January 5th, 2011
3:31 pm
Buckeye
Congrats on the win but please, keep it in the proper perspective. Your Bucks didn’t beat Georgia and as far as I am concerned, you are just the same as “your fellow Dawg posters” posting mindless dribble. I’ve seen you on these blogs for a while and you usually have some decent posts. Don’t spoil it and your good name because some of these GT fans posing as Dawgs “did it first”. Very uncouth
BAMA dude
January 5th, 2011
3:31 pm
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:30 pm
@SEC Elite – Kudos to Alabama and South Carolina for multiple wins over Ohio State. Any others are one -hit wonders.
Doean’t seem like the Bucks have been doing any one hit wondering in the SEC.
NORCROSS DAWG
January 5th, 2011
3:33 pm
DOES ANYBODY IN THE SPORTS WORLD THINK THAT THE MICHIGAN AD EVER LET THE THOUGHT OF GOING AFTER MARK RICHT ENTER HIS MIND? I CAN ANSWER FOR EVERYONE= HELL TO THE NO !!!
Buckeye
January 5th, 2011
3:34 pm
SEC Elite,
Last night was a triump. We won.
As far as the history lesson, you copied and pasted a previous posters info. Feel better?
Remember, we’re coming to Rocky Top in 2018/19 and we’re gonna pull out the hedges down to their hairy roots on 2020.
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:34 pm
@BAMA dude – don’t understand your Michigan State point but thanks for setting the record straight about the BCS bowl record. That’s 6-3 against the cream of the college crop. They only had the third loss after Ohio State beat them. You dig?
Joe Bob Thibodaux
January 5th, 2011
3:35 pm
2theadvocate.com Miles says that no one should worry. That sounds about as defenitive as “Have a great day” to me.
JBT
SEC Elite
January 5th, 2011
3:36 pm
One more time, for the cause…
http://football.stassen.com/records/opponent.html
The overall record for football for SEC teams versus Ohio State is:
SEC – 11 wins, 6 losses, and 2 ties
These statistics date back to 1865
SEC Wins:
Alabama – 24, Ohio State – 17 (1995 Citrus Bowl)
Alabama – 16, Ohio State – 10 (1986 Kickoff Classic)
Alabama – 35, Ohio State – 6 (1978 Sugar Bowl)
Auburn – 31, Ohio State – 14 (1990 HallofFame Bowl)
LSU – 38, Ohio State – 24 (2008 BCS Nat’l Champ)
Georgia – 21, Ohio State – 14 (1993 Citrus Bowl)
Florida – 41, Ohio State – 14 (2007 BCS Nat’l Champ)
S. Carolina – 31, Ohio State – 28 (2002 Outback Bowl)
S. Carolina – 24, Ohio State – 7 (2001 Outback Bowl)
Tennessee – 20, Ohio State – 14 (1996 Citrus Bowl)
Vanderbilt – 26, Ohio State – 21 (1931)
Ohio State Wins versus the SEC:
LSU – 33, Ohio State – 36 (1988)
Arkansas – 26, Ohio State – 26 (2010 Sugar Bowl)
Vanderbilt – 0, Ohio State – 20 (1933)
Vanderbilt – 0, Ohio State – 5 (1909)
Kentucky – 6, Ohio State – 19 (1935)
Kentucky – 0, Ohio State – 49 (1919)
Ties with the SEC and OSU:
Auburn – 0, OSU – 0 (1917)
LSU – 13, OSU – 13 (1977)
Buckeye
January 5th, 2011
3:36 pm
Michigan will be back. Hire Richt? Kidding, right?
ARdawg
January 5th, 2011
3:37 pm
Hire Richt, sheiiot, we’ll give ya Richt
BAMA dude
January 5th, 2011
3:37 pm
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:34 pm
@BAMA dude – don’t understand your Michigan State point but thanks for setting the record straight about the BCS bowl record. That’s 6-3 against the cream of the college crop. They only had the third loss after Ohio State beat them. You dig?
Kansas State, Texas A & M, Oregon, Notre Dame, and Arkansas are not the cream of the college crop. Talk about your one hit wonders. But keep thinking what you need to think about to keep your mind off the final score of the MNC games vs. the SEC.
Buckeye
January 5th, 2011
3:38 pm
Crap, even Vanderbilt beat Ohio State.
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:38 pm
@BAMA dude – You mean besides last night? Actually, OSU owns Vandfbilt (1909, 1933).
SEC Elite
January 5th, 2011
3:39 pm
Oh…and, by the way…
Four of those six SEC losses to OSU were Kentucky and Vanderbilt in the early 1900’s. Way to go OSU!!!
BAMA dude
January 5th, 2011
3:39 pm
Oh, and the Michigan State point was that they are hardly the cream of the college crop but defeated the Big Ten champion. Bama beat the team that beat the team that beat you by six touchdowns. Now you dig?
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:40 pm
BAMA dude
Your an idiot
BAMA dude
January 5th, 2011
3:42 pm
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:40 pm
BAMA dude
Your an idiot
Well, if YOU’RE going to call me an idiot when I’m correcting you on the facts that support YOUR argument, then at least brush up on YOUR homonyms.
Buckeye
January 5th, 2011
3:45 pm
SEC,
Who’s YOUR team?
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:45 pm
Drinkers of The SEC Kool-Aid – please don’t compare your conference’s record against Ohio State. Unless you have the stones to tell this blog your team affiliation don’t compare a conference against one team. Unless, that is, you’re implying that it takes an entire conference to bring down little ol’ Ohio State University.
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:49 pm
@BAMA dude – Ohio State’s lone loss this year was at Wisconsin. OSU defeated Michigan State. Dig? I didn’t write the “your an idiot” post. You should have seen that it’s grammatically incorrect. If I’d written it it would say “you’re an idiot.”
Buckeye
January 5th, 2011
3:49 pm
Hey Auburn,
If any of you want to know how to beat the Ducks on a big stage ( the Rose Bowl still counts as a big stage, doesn’t it?), let us know and we’ll get you the coaches tape from our Rose Bowl victory a year ago. Happy to help.
Funny, can’t recall UGA’s bowl game last year.
Buckeye
January 5th, 2011
3:50 pm
Karl,
Ohio State and Michigan State did not play this season.
charliecole
January 5th, 2011
3:54 pm
Here’s why Miles should stay in Baton Rouge..
http://www.secsportsworld.blogspot.com
The Karl Childers
January 5th, 2011
3:55 pm
@Buckeye – SHHHHH, I’m on a roll.
PALADIN DEATH DEALER
January 5th, 2011
3:57 pm
Saban Looks Like Willie B:
YEA, I AGREE, THEY TRIED TO HOLD UP MISSISSIPPI STATE FOR BIG MONEY BUT DECIDED TO LET HIM COME ON TO AUBURN FOR FREE….THAT AIN’T FOOLING ANYBODY, AUBIE….NCAA GONNA STONE YALL AGAIN, JUST NOT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP AND BIG MONEY ON THE LINE….THEY GONNA GET YA, JUST A MATTER OF TIME….
PALADIN DEATH DEALER
January 5th, 2011
4:00 pm
Buckeye:
YEA, IT WAS ANOTHER BOWL WIN FOR THE DAWGS LAST YEAR…NOT A GREAT BOWL, HOWEVER…AND CONGRATS, AFTER 9 CONSECUTIVE A$$ KICKINGS BY THE SEC, YALL FINALLY WIN ONE, ALTHOUGH YOU SORT OF BACKED INTO IT WHEN YOU GOT THE PUNT BLOCKED AND LOOKED AS IF YOU WOULD CHOKE THE CHEESE AGAIN…..
PALADIN DEATH DEALER
January 5th, 2011
4:06 pm
The Karl Childers:
9 CONSECUTIVE A$$ KICKINGS OUT OF 10 YEARS LAID ON OHIO STATE, THINK THAT IS THE SAME RECORD GEORGIA HAS VS. TECH IS OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS…..BUT THEY GOT A GENIUS COACH NOW THAT WINS MORAL VICTORIES….HE IS THE TOAST OF THE AJC….HE OUTCOACHED COACH RICHT BECAUSE HE ORDERED HIS DEFENSE TO LET UGA SCORE…UGA COULDN’T TELL IF THEY WERE LETTING THEM SCORE OR NOT BECAUSE IT WASN’T ANY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT IT HAD BEEN DOING THE ENTIRE GAME AND THE ENTIRE YEAR….
danny
January 5th, 2011
4:07 pm
I hope Les goes…good riddance