Who "clocked" the Coach?



This is an email from our buddy Dave Johnson and his thoughts on Les Miles' lack of coaching from this past weekend. Dave will be adding his thoughts every couple of weeks. We encourage all of our followers to please email in any thoughts and if we truly like them, we will post them.
-The Manchise
Let’s go back in time a little bit, a journey back to early Saturday evening. I sat and watched the psychotic and former National Championship winning head coach of the LSU Tigers, Les Miles give the game away. LSU had just gone down and scored against the underdog Ole Miss Rebels to make it a 25 to 23 game with just under 2 minutes to go. The Tigers then went for the 2 point conversion and failed, giving a ton of momentum to the Rebels. Miraculously the Tigers then recovered the onside kick because of stud WR/RB/GOD Dexter McCluster seemed to be terrified of actually winning the game.
Within two plays Miles and the Tigers were inside the Ole Miss 30 yard line and there was over a minute left on the clock and two timeouts. After a couple of absolutely ridiculous play calls consisting of the Tiger wide receivers running routes to the end zone, Miles was forced to use a timeout after losing 15 yards (You were only down 2 points Les…all you needed was a field goal). Instead of taking a page out of the Jim Tressel play book, Miles had to be the ballzy coach and go for the touchdown. What happened on the next two plays was something that left me and the other gentleman in the room screaming at the TV. LSU on 3rd and 25 was sacked with 28 seconds left on the clock. Miles inexcusably did not use his final timeout until there was 9 seconds left on the clock. Yes, you read that correctly the ever-aggressive hot-head Les Miles let 19 seconds roll of the clock before FINALLY calling his last timeout.
Of course on the next play the Tigers completed a miraculous pass inside the Ole Miss ten-yard-line, but because Miles and his coaching staff had so badly mismanaged the clock there was only 1 second left and their feeble attempt of trying to "clock" the ball ended the game with no time remaining. How could a former National Championship winning head coach allow 19 seconds to run off the clock before using his final timeout? That my friends is just an unacceptable way to loose a hard fought conference game on the road. So Mr. Miles instead of screaming at your players and coaches all the damn time, maybe you should learn how to manage the clock at the end of football games.
-Dave Johnson

2 comments:

Jonah said...

In addition to all that horrible coaching, how do you not A) have your kicking unit on the sidelines ready to go or B) have a play called in case you catch the ball? Every college team in America (all the way down to D3) practices having their offense on the field laying down with the kicking unit on the sidelines and X number of seconds left, sprinting out there and getting the thing off. If you didn't think you had time (as you said after the game), how do you not have a play called in the previous timeout so your QB isn't left making a stupid decision? Inexcusable.

Dave said...

Exactly!

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