Haha, this is proof positive that it is a complete waste of time to argue with any of your hot takes.....if you won't just flat admit how wrong and idiotic you were on this, then you never will.
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According to the "goal" of the BCS, Bammer absolutely should have been there... the goal was to put the "Two best teams" in the NC Game...
The BCS did what it was set up to do and the best team won the NC that year... It's not Bammer's fault Mike "I'm 40" Gundy couldn't beat a terrible Iowa State team...
I'll type slower so hopefully your mongoloid self can understand.
Saban and Miles ran the same offense in the early 2000's. Saban recognized the offensive revolution college football was experiencing- and changed hi offense accordingly. Hell- just look at this season. He has Lane Kiffin- a WCO guy- running the zone read with an athlete at QB. Not a dropback guy. Saban evolved with the game in his 60's.
Miles was running the same offense in 2016 that he ran in 2004. It wasnt working anymore. Especially when you have Harris, Jennings, and Jefferson as your QB's. A classic dropback passer they are not. He refused to evolve- and this was ultimately his downfall. Just look at our last 2 games vs LSU- Miles had 2+TD leads in the 4th Q of both games and acted like he was up 30 points in both. Even though he won both- he damn lost them because of refusing to realize how quick-strike offenses exist on CFB these days. He simply refused to evolve as a coach. He kept coaching in 2000 mode
...except Saban then beat Miles in the NC game and won the NC the next year also with that same offense...and then was undefeated the year after that before an insane fluke play cost him the Auburn game.
Saban may have felt changing offenses was necessary, and he's certainly continued his success since, but there's no indication he needed to do that to continue winning national titles.
Tusk heard the same rumor exactly as I heard it and we don't live within 8 hours of each other. Apparently Jefferson had been doing a lot of partying the week before the game to the point the offensive line felt he didn't deserve to lead them on the field. They approached Miles and told him what Jefferson had been upto and that they weren't going to block for him so he better put in Lee if he wanted to win. He started Jefferson knowing full well that it meant mutiny from his OL.
That still sounds dumb. 'He doesn't deserve to lead us onto the field to help us compete for the national title, so if he plays, we won't compete for the national title.' If your issue with a player is that he isn't in it enough, how is a proper response to give up and refuse to be in it?
I'm not necessarily saying the rumor is wrong, just that it sounds really stupid and that if it's true, I don't really blame Miles. It sounds like he was stuck with a QB who didn't care enough and an OL who didn't care enough.