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Uniting Bedlam in hate
Both sides loathe Les, but at least Pokes should thank him

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: January 9, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

Thanksgiving Saturday, 1949, Oklahoma A&M football coach Jim Lookabaugh said good-bye to the job he held for 12 years, still the longest tenure in Cowboy history.

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Near the end of the Bedlam game, the public-address announcer reminded fans that Lookabaugh had resigned and this was his exit.

A crowd of 47,937 gave him a standing ovation.

But that crowd was in Norman. That game was at Owen Field. That ovation came from Sooners.

Times have changed. Les Miles won a national championship Monday night, and it's safe to say few on either side of Bedlam cheered LSU's victory in the Big Bowl.

Miles is the most hated man in Oklahoma sports.

The crimson crowd despises Miles because as Oklahoma State's coach he twice beat the Sooners and wouldn't cower to the Oklahoma football monster when the cameras flipped on.

The orange throng is anti-Miles, despite his resurrection of winning ways in Stillwater, because he absconded for the LSU job before the smoke had cleared on the 2004 Alamo Bowl.

OU fans paint Miles as an emotional buffoon. OSU fans call him disloyal.

Both depictions were proven wrong in this bowl season.

Miles is a heck of a football coach. Anyone could see that back in the ‘90s when he was Bob Simmons' offensive coordinator, and Miles kept his Dallas Cowboys job despite the coaching change from Chan Gailey to Dave Campo.

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