andthevalleyshook.com - 8/24/2008
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College coaches are a conservative lot. They like total control, they don’t like surprises, and sometimes, it seems they prefer losing in a way in which they will not be criticized than winning in a risky fashion. Coaches are an incredibly risk-averse group. Les Miles is perhaps the only person who gets criticized for implementing a successful strategy. Pittman has ...
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Garnet And Black Attack —
... at this site about the coaching ability of Spurrier. Miles, meanwhile, has taken some flak for his fourth-down decisions, something on which I agree with And the Valley Shook: anyone criticizing him is ignoring the circumstances under which Miles made those decisions. (I'm far more critical of Miles for his tendency to mouth off than for his in-game decisions.) And don't come at me with the Auburn game. I saw that play as it happened, and if it weren't for the LSU players sauntering into position and a comatose clock operator, few would have any meaningful reason to criticize ...
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