"Pride Goes before a Fall" by Jim Reeves

Wow. LSU over Auburn 30-24. Honestly I'm not pissed about the loss itself, once they were inside field goal range it seemed inevitable. what bothers me is the gall of Les Miles. He is by far the luckiest coach I have ever watched. I've followed LSU all season and time after time (especially against Florida) he would put it all on the line and get away with it. He denies ever convention of modern coaching, and he GETS AWAY WITH IT!!!

With 16 ticks left on the clock he calls a pass, A PASS IN FIELD GOAL RANGE!!! A field goal would do it. It would win the game for him, but no, friggin Miles needs to boost his own ego and go for a 6 when 3 is fine. He goes for it, and he gets it. A throw into coverage gets pulled down.

I would say that it was a brilliant call, but Les Miles summary of the game was to the affect that if it had failed he would have had time for a field goal, because he had a time out. The fact of the matter is that if it had failed that would have been it. The clock ticked to :01 as the reception came down. if it had been deflected the clock would have ticked to 0:00 and that would have been a loss.

Even sports analyst don't hand this one too him without the disclaimer that it was the riskiest move he could have made IN FIELD GOAL RANGE! One analyst even likened him to a kid playing playstation.

the song of the day is "Pride Goes before a Fall" by Jim Reeves. because it says it better as good as anyone, "Ain't it funny how pride goes before a fall, "

-matt