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Fantastic article on LSU/Les Miles before the UA game.
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:00 pm
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Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:02 pm to NBamaAlum
great read there. I'm gonna have to pick up that ESPN Mag issue.
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:03 pm to CBandits82
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great read there. I'm gonna have to pick up that ESPN Mag issue.
No kidding. Very well written, and a really good peek into the coach and team.
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:07 pm to NBamaAlum
Looks like a good read.
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:08 pm to NBamaAlum
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Just before the kickoff of the Alabama game, he did frenzied circles in the kitchen, opening the freezer, drawers, looking through the pantry and bellowing in his Coach Voice: "I know there's candy around here somewhere. Where is the Halloween candy!?"
How can anyone dislike Miles? He's cool as hell.
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:08 pm to NBamaAlum
Well would you look at that. Warmack's massive, bare gut made it onto the cover of ESPN the magazine.
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Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:08 pm to NBamaAlum
Is this in this week's issue? I saw a couple more stories about that game on ESPN.com today that are going to be in it. Both were well done.
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:10 pm to bigpapamac
The whole issue is about the 11/3 experience. Should have some great articles in there.
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:12 pm to CBandits82
Nice, when does it hit newsstands? Sorry, I've always been an SI guy
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:12 pm to Funky Tide 8
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Well would you look at that. Warmack's massive, bare gut made it onto the cover of ESPN the magazine.
Where is his grey undershirt? My whole world is upside down. Cats curled up with dogs...lions with lambs...is everything tasting purple to y'all?
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:13 pm to bigpapamac
Should be soon since they are promoting it on the website right now. I would say this week.
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:13 pm to NBamaAlum
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:30 pm to NBamaAlum
"LSU's defense forces a fumble.." 
"the onside kick looks perfect, until It takes a bad hop just shy of 10 yards, touching the kicker.."
"the onside kick looks perfect, until It takes a bad hop just shy of 10 yards, touching the kicker.."
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:34 pm to getback
???
I agree, Yeldon choked. BUT
The onside was a bad hop...
I agree, Yeldon choked. BUT
The onside was a bad hop...
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:40 pm to TFS4E
Actually, the fumble was on McCarron.. The onside was batted down by the nerdy little kicker who then proceeded to run the ball over to the sideline in some bizarre type of fit..
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:40 pm to TFS4E
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I agree, Yeldon choked. BUT
Eh, AJ put it on his hip.
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:41 pm to NBamaAlum
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:42 pm to Gizmeaux
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:49 pm to NBamaAlum
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But even in failure, the call works like gasoline thrown on the fire -- for the players and for the fans -- because everyone understands its meaning: All in.
This is why I was okay with the gambles he took
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When the kick slips wide left, something happens. The carefully constructed circle breaks. Everyone can feel it: the crowd, the suddenly conservative defense on the field, the coaches calling the plays, the players on the sideline, even Miles
This is what i can't understand. Why play not to lose when you've played to win all game.
Great article.
Posted on 11/14/12 at 4:49 pm to NBamaAlum
My favorite passage from a guy that's been one of my favorite semi-long-form journalists for a long while now...
I'm not dogging Saban here. This isn't the intent of the response in this thread. But honestly...would you EVER be able to see into Saban the same way you see into Miles the man? Les lets people in, and reaches out to folks from outside of the aforementioned bubble in that article.
In a sense, while I really enjoy Wright Thompson, it seems like this guy's muse is Miles. If you've read the article he did on him last year (The Les You Know, google it) and this one, you start to realize...These two open up a world we will rarely-if ever-be able to peer into. A world that no amount of money, donations, or 5-Star-QB's one could sire and have commit to a coach at this level's team would ever allow us to look into.
Damn I love reading this kinda thing.
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Taking away mundane decisions frees Miles to use his greatest strengths: joy and a contagious belief. Nick Saban, the coach against whom he is most often measured, chases victory by removing variables, including emotion. Miles needs to transfer his joy and intensity to the players, amplifying emotion instead of removing it. This is a much harder way to win games, trying to ride the unpredictable bulls of desire and belief.
One of his secretaries shows me two photographs as a way to explain why Miles is successful. They were taken before and after the A&M game. Afterward, he is leaping into a player's arms in the locker room, laughing, childlike. Before kickoff, in the moment before the Tigers take the field, his eyes are arched and clear, almost angry. He is holding his team in the tunnel, making it wait. In this moment, when the players press together and surge, he knows the tricky task of transferring himself has worked.
Other than the intensity and joy shown in those two photos, the only emotion I've ever seen from Miles is wistfulness, which isn't really surprising for someone who lives in an enclosed, repetitive ecosystem. He knows I travel internationally and while walking off the practice field one day during the bye week, he peppers me with questions about Sri Lanka. What's the weather like? What did you eat? How about the politics? Was it scary? "I would love to see the things you've seen," he says.
A few days later, we sit in his Escalade waiting for his son Ben's youth football game to begin. He eats a burrito bowl. In the shadow of the Mississippi River, Sri Lanka comes up again, along with the sprawling world outside his bubble. "Am I gonna have a regret that I haven't traveled?" he says. "That I haven't seen the faces of other peoples?"
I show him photos of the subcontinent sky on my phone and he can't get over the crazy colors. Someday. "When I pass," he says, "you will either know that I made it there or I didn't, and you'll know I really wish I had."
I'm not dogging Saban here. This isn't the intent of the response in this thread. But honestly...would you EVER be able to see into Saban the same way you see into Miles the man? Les lets people in, and reaches out to folks from outside of the aforementioned bubble in that article.
In a sense, while I really enjoy Wright Thompson, it seems like this guy's muse is Miles. If you've read the article he did on him last year (The Les You Know, google it) and this one, you start to realize...These two open up a world we will rarely-if ever-be able to peer into. A world that no amount of money, donations, or 5-Star-QB's one could sire and have commit to a coach at this level's team would ever allow us to look into.
Damn I love reading this kinda thing.
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