Les Miles makes this too easy
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by Suckatsports
Late yesterday afternoon, a post caught my eye on one of the college football message boards. The author caught a piece of PTI where Les Miles was positioning himself toward an undefeated season because the team never lost in regulation, only in overtime. This seemed too good to be true, but lo and behold he is indeed that stupid.
Since reading that, I've been trying to find exactly the right words to eloquently describe my reactions to this. And I can't, at least not eloquently. Not too long ago, in jest I said to my friend that any SEC loss actually counts for half a loss, and SEC wins counts doubly as much. Les Miles takes it a step further.
- This team has not lost a game in regulation. I know it does not mean much to you guys (media.) The point is, in a 60 minutes game, we play as competitive as we can be. There is not a team that we have played that has bested us in the first 60 minutes. If you had to look at the length and width of the game, that is how it is measured. Then you go to overtime, and I think our overtime system is just as flawed as any other overtime system. It’s just the way it is and it is probably correct. You have to decide it then where it takes the length of the field and certain situations out of it. It is imperfect, but a darn good system. You tell me if there are other teams in this country that can say that. If you just give us ties, like in the old system, we are undefeated with two ties. Maybe that adds up as one lost.
Now, from my understanding, the overtime system has been around for a couple years, it's not new this year. And [I hope] he is fully aware that if you are tied at the end of regulation, you go into overtime. Sure, the system isn't perfect, but it's not so horribly flawed as to discount the wins or losses gained in the final frame. On the other hand, ties are great - in 1975. This guy is perfect for Michigan.
- Go find a team that has losses that only came in overtime. Go find a team that compares competitively with five nationally-ranked teams and has done extremely well. I am talking about our team and what we can be, not what we just lost.
Bam, and you thought he was done. LSU has faced in impressively difficult schedule, and their wins make up arguably the best resume for a competitive team in college football. But out of all the great teams that they've beaten, they managed to lose to the two possible worst foes on their schedule, both unranked now. Not to mention that one of those losses came to an unranked team at home on senior day, an inexcusable loss if you're to play for the national championship.
If they beat Arkansas and if they beat UK they're undefeated! That logic is absolutely bullet proof. If the officials call a fumble on Dufrene's 80 yard run, Illinois doesn't score that touchdown and OSU is undefeated. If no one gets hurt on USC, they blow every team out and are undefeated. If ifs and buts were candy and nuts. I guess what they say is true: don't argue with a moron. He'll drag you to his level and beat you with experience.
Miles address Media LSU Sports via Fanhouse
This post is cross-published from We Suck at Sports.
And it's not NFL overtime where you can lose without touching the ball. Each team has an equal chance of both scoring and keeping the other team from doing so, so it's really not like a coin toss at all. It's completely up to the players. So yes, to say that his team is basically undefeated" is both moronic, completely crazy, and insulting to the teams that DID beat them. Because, I'm pretty sure they had their shot to win in both regulation AND overtime, and didn't do it.
They lost to two mediocre (at best) teams. One at home. In fact, they got lucky and won several games they should have lost. There's no reason to give this team 5 chances at the NC game, when every other team in the country is lucky to get 2nd life.