ESPN: Les Miles to remain at LSU

I dunno... swap Miles for Rich Rodriguez and it's like reading Finebaum a year ago...

 

So wait, a guy who churns out books about dead people to sell to suburban housewives is now the chief of the money morality police?

Huh-uh. That dog won't hunt.

Les Miles might be sleaze personified, but that ain't the guy to say so.

 

Takes one to know one, Zeke?

 

Who also happily scabbed during the Detroit newspaper strike.

He also wrote a huffy column about greedy moneygrubbing Ben Wallace going for the money with the Bulls. And another huffy column acting very hurt that Chris Webber had apparently been something less than truthful with him 10 years earlier.

 

<a href="http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2007/12/espn-airs-miles-press-conference-but.html">
Awful Announcing has two clips: the first is the way ESPN presented the Miles statement, without the ESPN reference, and the second one is the entire statement.</a>

 

Indignant columns from the source in question are more than a little amusing . . .

The guy's a wildly-successful commercial writer for the masses.

But in terms of giving readers the straight skinny on opinion issues of steaming interest to the bulk of his Detroit-area readership, the guy's laughable.

 

Awesome. Just awesome. I loved the chancellor. "What he said."

 

I'm waiting for some Michigan fans to cry foul over this. Consider where Kirk went to college, after all.

I'm a Michigan fan, and I laughed like hell at Kirk saying "my sources are legit!" on SportsCenter last night. I didn't laugh so hard since Vitale all but gave Duke the national title in 99 and Connecticut won. I swear Dukie V was going to eat paper on the air.

 

Album's column is right on the money in this sense: Miles brought the heat onto himself, with the way he handled the situation from Day 1.

The disingenuous whining about someone being a money whore, that I could've done without.

 

Why hasn't anyone pointed out that Desmond Howard of ESPN was on the "selection committee"? I'd be willing to bet that he was Herbie's source. I'd also be willing to bet he gets his ass bounced off Game Day next year if he was.

 

It was mentioned on the other thread.

 

I hadn't thought of that but I guess it could be possible somebody from Michigan wanted to fuck with an Ohio State guy.

But yeah, I think the real story is similar to what happened with Rodriguez last year. Somebody leaked it and Miles was forced to turn the job down.