If true welcome aboard coach, give us hurting Tiger fans a few days to get over this wild holiday hangover and I'm sure you will get a warm welcome. Now get rid of Jimbo now!!!!!!!!!
(Per Times Picayune) It's Les Miles Well, time to support the crazy SOB, since he's now apparently our crazy SOB. http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/
Also an Advocate headline of breaking news, looks like Miles is indeed the man. Welcome aboard coach.
I'm sure he'll get a warm reception, like you said, once we get over this holiday hangover (which, judging by my alcohol consumption, might last until tomorrow--though my fiance' has told me I'm still typing in complete sentences....)
Cowboys are Miles ahead with Ohio native Jason Lloyd, Journal Register News Service Facing Buckeyes is particularly special for coach who turned around Oklahoma State Advertisement SAN ANTONIO - As an All-Ohio offensive lineman at Elyria High School, Les Miles thought Ohio State really wanted him. After all, Woody Hayes himself delivered a speech at a banquet and one of his assistants came to the high school to talk with Miles. To a high school kid, that had to mean something. "I thought they were recruiting me feverishly," said Miles, now the head coach at Oklahoma State. "Now as a coach in college, I realize maybe it wasn't feverish. I went to the place that wanted me most sincerely." Miles followed another man with Ohio roots, Bo Schembechler, to Michigan, where he played on Rose Bowl and Orange Bowl teams with the Wolverines from 1972-76. Now 51, he has taken a downtrodden Cowboys program and rebuilt it far beyond mere respectability. His Cowboys will face Ohio State on Wednesday night in the Alamo Bowl. "He's an Ohio guy and grew up watching Ohio State play, and they didn't want him," Oklahoma State defensive tackle Clay Coe said. "He doesn't like these guys too much because this was a big rivalry when he played, and it's still a big rivalry now." For so many reasons, Wednesday's game has extra juice for Miles, who readily admits he gets pretty worked up for every game. "It's a tremendously important opponent in my past," he said. "I'm familiar with that scarlet and gray, and I understand what those Buckeye leaves mean. It'll be a personal motive, not necessarily team-wide." Miles was born in Akron while his grandfather operated a train moving raw materials in and out of the Goodyear Tire plant. He moved to Elyria prior to kindergarten, where he earned letters in baseball and wrestling. But his real passion came in football. He was a huge Browns fan growing up but was snubbed by the Buckeyes after graduating from Elyria in 1972. Miles now remains close with Schembechler - the two have traded phone messages over the last 10 days, although they've yet to have an actual conversation. "He knows what's going on," Miles said of his former coach. "Don't pretend he doesn't. He watches those games and has a feel for what's going on. His comments, although recorded, were very pointed." A win over Ohio State would be a huge coup, not only for Miles personally, but for his team. Aside from its intrastate rivalry with Oklahoma, the Cowboys rarely are afforded the opportunity to beat such a prestigious school. Part of that was the inability for Oklahoma State to compete in the Big 12 for over a decade. All that is changing. The Cowboys have beaten the Sooners in two of the last three years and last season competed in their first New Year's Day bowl in 45 years. That's also how long it had been since they beat both Oklahoma and Nebraska in the same season, which also happened last year. Under Miles, Oklahoma State has made three straight bowl appearances. Before that, it hadn't been to a bowl game in 14 years. "I think we're taking strides," Miles said. "I think we're a good football team and a program that will sustain winning on a year-in and year-out basis. I think we have a nucleus of a championship team returning. I like the position of this team." And Oklahoma State likes Miles. With his growing success in Stillwater, the trouble will soon become hanging on to him. Miles has already been mentioned as a darkhorse candidate for the LSU job, but more likely he may wind up as Lloyd Carr's eventual successor at Michigan. A win over Ohio State would only increase his stock - both in Oklahoma and nationally. "I'm sure this is special for him," Coe said. It's something we probably don't understand and won't ever understand. We weren't part of the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry. But he approaches everyone the same. I don't think his intense feelings or emotions will get involved with how he'll coach the game."
I am the saddest Cowboy in the world right now, but since you took my Coach, you must take my DC also. None of us are sorry to see our DC go.
