Go Les!!

[JimBob]

It don't get much better than seeing a real football coach kicking the dog out of Tosu. :D

[legelegel]

The Cowboys know how to pick 'em, first Jimmy and now Les.

[Razor_Poke]

Just gotta figure out how to keep them.

[Verb]

The key is to hire guys that aren't sleazy. I think we're good in that department now.

[CanadianCowboy]

The key is to hire guys that aren't sleazy. I think we're good in that department now.
I'm right with you on that one, Verb! If Les is a REAL football coach, then I'm really good with what we have. Gundy will get us there, and the right way.

If Miles had been upfront & honest instead of sneaky & deceitful about his interest in LSU, I would have some respect for the guy. Im thankful for what he did at OSU, just hate the way he left. I dont dislke the guy, but I wont go out of my way to cheer for him.

This game wasnt all that interesting for me.

But its nice to see that if he actually gameplans against the Buckeyes instead of interviewing, he can get something done.

I wholeheartedly agree with what BBBen said on another thread. It's too bad Lesticle couldn't get so interested in O-State football while we were at the Alamo Bowl to coach the team to a "W". That was a win-able game with some creativity and enthusiasm, and a "real football coach" would have at least had us more competitive on that particular field. Instead, we had a self-interested sleaze bucket as our head representative. Shortsighted folks can't see it, but we have the real deal now.

I wasn't too interested in the game, saw a little bit of it, but it wasn't O-State so I was more into my new Cross Canadian Ragweed CD so I flipped back to it

[CaliforniaCowboy]

I dunno... Jones was sleezy, and we couldn't hardly get rid of him... he was like old luggage. (still is actually).

[OSU-DNA]

Now that we are 3 years down the road, I would offer a different view of the Alamo Bowl for consideration.

This year 6 interim coaches took their teams to bowls, only 1 won the game. The point being that had Les accepted the position at LSU before our game we would have named an interim coach. My guess is the interim would have been Mike.

If we reflect on the talent in the game, it seems to me that the other OSU had the eventual Heisman trophy winner, a first round draft choice of the Packers that year, and a slew of players that went to the NFL that year and the following. Our contribution to the NFL paled in comparison. The NFL at least indicated that there was a substantial talent gap between the teams.

Okay, so what would have happened, we named Mike as interim and then got blasted. I wonder how that would have benefited the beginning of the MG era?

[wickerbill]

Or Les could have focused on his current job like Pelini obviously did with LSU and got our team prepared for the game we were still paying him to coach instead of spending his time dealing with the LSU AD.

[snuffy]

Now that we are 3 years down the road, I would offer a different view of the Alamo Bowl for consideration.

This year 6 interim coaches took their teams to bowls, only 1 won the game. The point being that had Les accepted the position at LSU before our game we would have named an interim coach. My guess is the interim would have been Mike.

If we reflect on the talent in the game, it seems to me that the other OSU had the eventual Heisman trophy winner, a first round draft choice of the Packers that year, and a slew of players that went to the NFL that year and the following. Our contribution to the NFL paled in comparison. The NFL at least indicated that there was a substantial talent gap between the teams.

Okay, so what would have happened, we named Mike as interim and then got blasted. I wonder how that would have benefited the beginning of the MG era?

A very good point DNA, I have never even look at it from that POV. Gundy had a big enough hill to climb in his first year, had it started out with a bowl lose from the year before would have made it that much harder. As it is Gundy still has plenty of detractors and that would have been one more torch for them to carry when storming the castle.

[Lewis the Pike]

It don't get much better than seeing a real football coach kicking the dog out of Tosu. :D

well he had a chance to kick the dog out of tOSU in 2004, and didn't care much about doing it then. Never know with that fruit loop.

hell of a coach though, gotta hand it to him (and Saban)

[CoachOSU]

Have to agree with WickerBill on this one... I was at the game and all through the night was wondering why there wasn't much fire in the boys or Coach Miles...

Coach Miles always has a swagger or intensity to him during the games... he certainly didn't that night and in fact the whole team looked very unprepared and also sluggish...

The thing that made it the worse is (I guess this day and age it happens alot) is that he made promises to OSU boosters, fans, and players that he never intended to keep... and all the way up to the bowl game he was just "excited to be at OSU.. and building the program into a powerhouse, and he felt so at home at OSU" .... NOW do you honetly believe LSU just contacted him AFTER our bowl game about the job..please....

It would be almost impossible to worry about a bowl game if you have job offers and interviews all through the bowl game practices and even while they were staying in San Antonio...

Good coach & good person... just handles things in a sleezy way