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Seeing the way they’ve responded to this loss I now can’t wait to rock some purple and gold at the game. Will definitely be worth a nights sleep on the couch, for her.

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FTFY

SJW's don't spend a lot of time defending people who support the flag and are proud of our country. Remember the point is to be ashamed of who you are and where you are from.

Whether he got fined or not doesn't change the fact that he didn't care if he was going to get fined. Quotes from the link you posted -

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"I haven't heard from [the league]," Beckham said Wednesday afternoon. "They'll probably fine me. They fine me for everything. They fine me for smiling."

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"It's a special cleat for a couple reasons. I mean Opening Day is on 9/11," said Kickasso owner Troy Cole, who designed the cleats for Beckham and Cruz. "And Odell wanted to pay tribute to the heroes of 9/11, and not toward the tragedy aspect, with the falling building and the heroes all around kind of helping and saving people.

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The NFL could have avoided the narrative that exists by publicly stating an exception to the policy for the 10 year anniversary of 9/11. The fact that the NFL wasn't abysmally stupid enough to fine a guy for expressing that sentiment while looking the other way as a below average quarterback who doesn't vote says our country sucks and disrespects the anthem while accepting DOD money to honor our soldiers isn't a statement about OBJ.

On TD Alabama was the beneficiary of a questionable personal foul and a blatant hold not being called. That being said, we were bleeding field position all game and eventually they get at least 3. 6 First Downs 8 Punts - we weren't going to score. As much as I fricking hate it, our offense was not competitive that game. Defense played them close, offense not so much.

For the record, I think that no school should touch Briles anytime soon. He is too toxic and will be until he attempts to rehab his image. If he feels he was made the scapegoat, he should come forward with his side of the story that explains how he acted appropriately in order to rehab his image. This is a very challenging message because it must be done in a way that is respectful to the victims. If he doesn't feel it is worth it to defend himself, then we shouldn't.

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Not only did he do that, he hid behind the Bible and his religion as to why he brought these thugs in, for their shite at redemption!!! Hallelujah!!!


I bet you think Duke Lacrosse is still guilty too. Bitter much? Facts do get lost on you apparently. I hope you don't get the same media driven, biased misinformation about you one day.

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We don't know what really happened. That applies to both statements.

There are valid reasons for trying to help someone with a checkered background succeed and end up becoming a productive member of society. It will always be a risk to help individuals that fit into this category, but the reward of helping someone turn their life around is significant. His actions were not completely altruistic but they may not have been completely selfish either.

On the other hand enough has been reported on this so that it is clear something happened at Baylor. Are there times when someone is falsely accused of rape - yes, but I think that the percentage of rape reports that are false is very small. Yes everyone is innocent until proven guilty in our legal system. However, unlike what we have done with our elected officials in this state, we should hold our coaching staff to a higher standard than "hasn't been convicted", and not everything can be blamed on the biased media.

I'll buy you a few rounds if you feel like sharing those stories one day.

:cheers:

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plan C options

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Chicken...

It's you isn't it?

Continuing on with this logic, if we had fired Miles when we should have we would still be in Top 10 even with a loss to Alabama and talk would be starting about LSU making the playoff as an at large.

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Leaving currently the best program in college football to coach the same position for any other team would be a downgrade.

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I disagree. I'm not saying he's coming or not, but it isn't as simple as I'm the OC for the best program in the nation so any other OC position is a downgrade. Changing jobs is rarely that black and white.

- Alabama is Saban's team and people correctly view their success in a large part to be because of Saban's influence and the defense. The effect of this is that it minimizes the impact that Kiffin has on the success of the team. He may feel that coming to another school where his performance can be viewed as more instrumental to the success of the program better for his chances to secure another head coaching gig at a prestigious university.
- Saban can't be easy to work with and there have been some very visible signs of tension between the two. This is not a natural fit for either of them. The fact that it is working doesn't make it easy.
- Money. Yes Alabama can and will pay with anyone when they feel the candidate is worth it, but because of point 1 Alabama may not feel it is worth it to match an offer. Salaries are about ROI, and if Alabama feels it can get the same results with a different OC it won't get into a bidding war.
- On talent both teams are very similar. There aren't many schools in the nation that can say their talent is in the same class as Alabama's, but LSU can. Most season's I'd give the edge to Alabama, but it's usually close and some seasons like this one I think LSU is more talented.

What all of this essentially boils down to is that Kiffin is in Head Coaching Rehab. If he expects to lead a top level program again, he can either prove his capabilities at another location - one where his contributions are highlighted more and his arse chewings less - or he can coach a smaller program and work his way back up. I view it unlikely that he'd make a move directly from OC at Alabama to HC at top level program given his history. Had he never been a head coach before this would likely be different.

A move to LSU would also give him the opportunity to show that his offense could succeed against a Saban defense (assuming it did). If I'm hiring an offensive minded coach, and there is one available that has shown an ability to at least hold it's own against what is year in and year out the best defense in the nation he's probably at the top of my list. You don't get that opportunity at Alabama because you don't get the opportunity to play against a Nick Saban team.

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1. It really doesn't matter how you frame the arrangement, Coach O is going to view being the interim coach as a week to week interview. If you didn't want that, make someone else the interim head coach - but that may be enough to drive Coach O off.

2. Cuts both ways. You could make the argument that if you terminated Miles after the bowl game (assuming we would have made a bowl game which while still likely after the Auburn game wasn't a given) and Coach O didn't feel like he was given enough consideration he'd leave.

3. Wait, some of our fan base will disagree with who is hired as head coach? Next you'll be telling me that there won't be clear agreement on which quarterback should start...

Coach O returning next year is going to be tenuous, and that's really the case regardless of how this is managed. There is not a path to replacing Miles that guarantees that Coach O will want to be at LSU next year. In some regard making Coach O feel like he was given a fair shot includes saying the right things - which this is. Telling him that he never had a shot regardless and making an underwhelming hire is going to pretty much drive him off and potentially create animosity between him and the school.

What I'm worried about is that he does enough so that he feels he has earned the job, but he hasn't really. How will he respond to that? If this team plays like it should he'll likely be offered the job. If this team plays like it has been playing the first four games, he'll likely admit he didn't get the job done. If we can hire a big name it may be irrelevant. This is a difficult situation to manage and none of us have been involved in the internal conversations so none of us really have enough information to judge this. I don't like defending the LSU administration, I think the way they handled the end of the season last year was ridiculous, but giving Coach O a chance (and making sure it is a real chance and not just lip service) is the only way to give us any shot that he is on the LSU sidelines next season.