Headlinin’: Les admits he lost it at Ole Miss
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Making the morning rounds.
• "I’m responsible. I’m the head coach." After claiming ignorance despite video evidence to the contrary after the game, LSU coach Les Miles took full responsibility Monday for his team’s inexplicable clock management gaffe at the end of its 25-23 loss at Ole Miss. Miles admitted "we had no second play called prior to the Hail Mary" on the 4th-and-26 play that set up anticlimactic finish, because that pass was supposed to go into the end zone. It was letting 17 seconds tick away before calling timeout prior to the fourth down heave, though, that brought the most scorn — from critics and from Miles himself: "I let the clock get away from me. That was my fault, my mistake. … At that point in time, I had lost the opportunity for the team to win by squandering seconds."
• What? We all know it’s coming. Monday’s best headline, courtesy the Associated Press:
Oh, but they will, right AP? Nothing in the subsequent article suggests Rodriguez is in any immediate danger, but they will.
• Good luck with that. Winless Western Kentucky was the first team to let its coach go earlier this month, and Monday became the first team to fill its vacancy by hiring Stanford running backs coach Willie Taggart, a WKU alum and Jim Harbaugh’s brother from another mother. Fired coach Dave Elson will stay on for the Hilltoppers’ final two games in search of one last (and, this year, first) victory.
• How much is firing Ralph Friedgen worth to us? Word to the Washington Post over the weekend was that Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen’s $4 million buyout wouldn’t be an obstacle to ditching Fridge as the 2-9 Terps hurtle toward one of the worst finishes in school history. The Baltimore Sun doesn’t quite think so: With the general budget crunch at UMD, Friedgen will either have to resign or be targeted by deep-pocketed boosters to get around that number.
• Godspeed. Good luck to N.C. State offensive coordinator Dana Bible, a longtime hand at several schools who has been diagnosed with leukemia. Bible missed the Pack’s game at Virginia Tech Saturday and won’t coach against North Carolina as he undergoes tests in Boston and begins his fight.
Quickly … Urban Meyer insists he’s not going to Notre Dame. So is he just waiting until after the SEC Championship game to take the job, or what? … Rich Brooks has had enough of this retirement crap. … Forbes explains how Doug Flutie changed the game. … The Mountain West reprimands a BYU player and assistant coach for criticizing Air Force’s cut blocks. … And I-AA Northeastern drops its football program after 74 years, leaving the Red Sox and Patriots with one less obstacle in commanding the attention of the Boston sports scene.
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