Of Miles Rausch

Coach Tim Miles Mentions MilesRausch.com At CSU Press Conference; Sorta

TweetWell, it’s offi­cial. Tim Miles has accepted a head bas­ket­ball coach­ing posi­tion at Col­orado State Uni­ver­sity. Below is a video of the high­lights of the press con­fer­ence. He even men­tions MilesRausch.com!

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Alright, I lied. He never men­tioned my site, but things sure sound strange out of context!

Else­where, online com­mu­ni­cants are not quite so enam­ored with Tim as his fam­ily is. The Bison Media Blog has one such post. It’s not that the Media Blog hates Tim, it’s that some of its com­menters do. Tony Rolfes, and myself, have decided to take up the cause. Here are some excerpts from the com­ments page.

The con­ver­sa­tion turns ugly in a hurry. Four com­ments in, and a The Haters appear.

Hon­estly, peo­ple in the media, and idiot Bison Fans are going too far with the “Miles mov­ing up” crap. Its seri­ously get­ting ridicu­lous. What has the guy actu­ally accomplished?

- Didn’t even win the pathetic inde­pen­dent league this season.

- Never won an NCC title in D-II.

- His records in D-I have been: 16–8 this sea­son against D-I’s, and 12–12 last sea­son in D-I. Wow, I’m soooooo amazed.

- Pretty much lucked out get­ting Andre Smith to sign here, after he had com­mit­ted to an A-10 school. With­out that guy, NDSU hasn’t had a win­ning sea­son yet.

So explain to me what he’s accom­plished to war­rant all of these big time job offers that are sure to come his way? Got­ten two upset vic­to­ries by play­ing a zone defense and pray­ing to God for a bad shoot­ing night from Mar­quette and Wis­con­sin? Ohh, how do I sign him, what an amaz­ing coach to think of play­ing zone against Wis­con­sin. Oh wait, they already got knocked out of the tour­na­ment with a bet­ter team by play­ing games like that.

You guys are idiots. He’s not that great. All of these big time schools aren’t call­ing because he hasn’t got­ten crap done.

And why I’m on this topic, NDSU isn’t going to be nearly as good next sea­son with the loss of Dre. That guy opened up every­thing in your offense, and was a defen­sive beast. You could prob­a­bly play 6–5 and not get the stats from two of your play­ers he was putting up.

I’m sure you won’t believe me though… you’re win­ning because of a 5’11″ guard (who gets his open looks from teams dou­bling dre). Right.

Posted by: So Stu­pid. on 3÷20÷2007 4:30 PM

Some remark that a name like “So Stu­pid.” speaks for itself. Speak­ing to defend Tim against The Haters, is Tony Rolfes, using the moniker BigTBison.

Every school Tim has gone to he’s turned the pro­gram around. No one can deny that. Has any­one ever thought that Tim might be try­ing to recruit a spe­cific type of player? What if the kid is a great player but doesn’t lis­ten to his coaches or his teacher. Not a type of kid I’d want on my team. Some­thing to think about.

Posted by: BigT­Bi­son on 3÷20÷2007 6:11 PM

Take that, The Haters! Despite the crys­tal clear logic in Tony’s post, the response was harsh. The Haters don’t back down that easily.

Give me a break BigT, Miles and all of NDSU were drool­ing over sign­ing Qua­vle. Your lit­tle revi­sion of his­tory isn’t going to fly, because I KNOW that Miles offered him. Its pretty pathetic that you act like Miles didn’t want the kid after he signed some­where else.

Seri­ously, what is the “type” of player Miles is look­ing for? I bet you have no idea what that even means. I guess he must not be inter­ested in 6’11″ ath­letic cen­ters, huh? No, Miles doesn’t want that on his team. LOL.

Point is Miles, for all of his “amaz­ing” recruit­ing couldn’t land the big man of the future for his team from ND. Thats pathetic, and was the most needed piece on the team.

Posted by: Give me a break. on 3÷20÷2007 6:53 PM

The response is harsh and hard, using the word “pathetic” twice and a fully cap­i­tal­ized “LOL”. Tony, see­ing that things could get out of hand, tries to bring a cer­tain amount of self-restraint to the conversation.

Woo set­tle. I hon­estly don’t know any­thing about Qua­vle and if Tim did offer him and he rejected it that’s to bad. Maybe Qua­vle didn’t like that Tim was really really redic­u­lasly good look­ing and it scareded him away. God damn you Tim Miles and your good looks!

Posted by: BigT­Bi­son on 3÷20÷2007 7:15 PM

Hon­esty is the best pol­icy, and Tony uses his trade­mark humor to dis­arm his oppo­nent. It must have worked, because a full three min­utes passes with­out a response. Tony attempts a fur­ther advance with another post.

This pic­ture would scare any­body! http://www.flickr.com/photos/awayken/421347712/

Posted by: BigT­Bi­son on 3÷20÷2007 7:18 PM

Some of you might rec­og­nize this pic­ture. It’s one from my pho­to­stream on Flickr. This caused some con­fu­sion amongst fam­ily mem­bers trolling the site. My uncle Kevin saw the photo and rec­og­nized my Dad in the back­ground, and he thought I was the source of the post­ing. This passed to my Mom and Dad, though no one knew what the web­site was or where it was located. All I knew was there was a web­site some­where where some­one posted some pic­ture I took of Tim with my dad in the back­ground. A lit­tle detec­tive work, and I dis­cov­ered it was actu­ally Tony. He sent me a link to the site, and that’s where I got in on the action.

Despite being a Johnny-come-lately, I take up the Tim Miles Cause with this genius comment.

Who’s Tim Miles? Is he that guy who always takes his jacket off before every game? He’s hawt and aweseme.

BigT­Bi­son — that’s an AWESEME PICTURE!!!!!!!1!

Posted by: Big­Bison­Fan­But­NotRe­al­lyUpOn­Sports on 3÷23÷2007 11:38 AM

Bamf, baby. Despite my com­ment tak­ing place a full sixty-four hours after the com­ment it ref­er­ences, I obvi­ously rended a dev­as­tat­ing blow to The Haters. Not a sin­gle com­ment has been posted since. Tim Miles 1, The Haters 0.

Good luck, Tim! If you use Face­book, show your sup­port with the Tim Miles is the BEST coach ever! group.