Les Miles is amusing.
He’s not amusing in the way Louis CK or Zach Galifianakis are amusing – you know, where they try to be amusing; rather, Les Miles is unintentionally amusing because, well, he just says and does the darndest things.
Yesterday, good ol’ Les added to his ever-expanding litany of Joe Biden moments when asked for his thoughts on how the oil spill is affecting the Gulf region where Miles and his Tigers call home.
Let’s just say that Miles’ response did not sound like that of a man who reads many books. (And, as we’ll find out in a bit, that is an apt description of our bayou hero.)
Take a listen (audio via interview with Clay Travis on 104.5 The Zone):
Brooks over at Sports by Brooks transcribed the mumbling you heard above. I’ve copy/pasted the fruits of his work below. (So, to say thanks, click over to SbB…and as a bonus you get to see a funny picture of Les on a swing!)
Clay Travis:
“Since you got to Louisiana first you got (Hurricane) Katrina to deal with now you got the oil spill working its way to you. I was just wondering … what kind of situation you all are facing (with the oil spill).”
Les Miles:
“Well, it uh, the impact is more of a … you know … anything, anything along the … the uh … the … shore and those issues are very serious issues and there … the impact is on the … the uh (long pause) you know, what is, the natural resource of our country, uh, but ah … I don’t know that it’s, I don’t know exactly, uh, to what extent it’s being handled well and managed or mismanaged I have no idea. The only thing I know is it’s very sincere and it’s, it’s uh, it affects more than Louisiana and it affects (muffled pause) … the ocean.
So there you have it folks. In case you were wondering, anything along the shore is a serious issue and the oil spill affects the ocean.
Glad we got that cleared up.
Now, if this were just a one time slip up by Les we might be able to let it slide. However, anyone who follows college football knows that it is not. (And Les receives about 4 million dollars each year to not really be worried about a little blockery^.
First, as foreshadowed above, there is the fact the Les Miles doesn’t read books. We might have surmised this from his statement on the oil spill, but Miles actually confirms it here:
The first comment on the video says, “haha, man is he the george w bush of the college football world”. ‘Nuff said.
Another comment on the video above says, “You should read COACHING for Dummies”. If you want to know why someone would say that about a man with a 79-35 career record and a national championship on his resume, this probably has something to do with it:
But hey? Why worry? Les has been “letting ‘er rip” since his days in Stillwater.
Besides, that was just a set back. He still likes his team and they’ll get better.
For the record, that last one isn’t really any type of gaffe. Actually, if I was a player, I’d like to hear my coach talk like that. But you have to admit that the background music makes it pretty funny.
Anyway, the real key is stopping that inside trap. Stop that inside thing!
Whoa! That’s not Les Miles. How’d that get in there?
Anyway, now you know that the oil spill affects the ocean and that Les Miles doesn’t read books but will let ‘er rip. My work here appears to be done.
Well, almost.
It just wouldn’t be a post on MSF if we didn’t include a goofy candid picture of our subject:
Image source: Top Five Sports
By the way, you may be wondering what the hell Les Miles has to do with Midwest sports. Well, remember, he was in pretty serious talks to take over for Michigan after Lloyd Carr was ousted, leading to this classically disingenuous press conference in which Les Miles does what all great football coaches do: lie.
Anyway, I appreciate you visiting the site today. So (and I say this with the utmost Les-ian sarcasm) thank you, and have a great day.
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^ – mockery on a blog…blog + mockery = blockery…I just made that up. Let’s see if it catches on (probably not).
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