Did anyone just hear Les Miles say he is preparing for AR-KANSAS!!!

[humphrey]

I think Miles knows the correct pronunciation -- he is from Michigan, so he knows a lot more about winning than anyone from Arkansas.  He just knows that saying it like that gets us riled up.  He's doing nothing more than stirring the pot.

[Pignutx32]

Too bad we don't have the necessary components on the team to make him eat those words.  I guess we will just take our beating and wait on next year to start the damage repair.

[El Dogg Hog]

I just hope and pray we beat the living crap outta LSU and make him eat those words. Les is on such a high horse and thinks he's the best coach since sliced bread. Truth is, LSU fans think he crazy. He's pulled stupid stunts that would have cost them games but luck was somehow on his side (i.e. Auburn game).

To give it cajun style: LSU SUXS!  GO HOGS!!

[football17]

He was trying to get his team in the midset that Arkansas is as good as Kansas (who is just under them in the BCS)

[joe_mayo]

deliberty

Or...  stupid is as stupid does?

Just sayin'

[hawgdog2005]

get over the name calling.  as long as we have nutt we get no respect.  fire the dork!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  then we quick their rear ends next year with a new coach that can actually coach and isn't afraid to lose

[hawkeyefan17]

It makes him sound ignorant. When I heard it I thought it was funny although I am sure it was a deliberate swipe at the Hogs.

[jfb4ever]

                  Les Miles, who stated, that LSU was the True West Division Champs last year in Little Rock, just said he is focused on getting ready to play R kansas??  That's correct, R kansas    How smart do you have to be to be a Head Coach??      Before he heads back to the North Country, it would be nice to teach him who ARKANSAS IS !!!!!!!!!

[mj4president]

Man I just saw that on ESPN. That guy is a dumbass. R Kansas. I hope Darren runs for about 600 yards and after the game gets him some hooked on phonics so he can figure out how to say it right.

[jfb4ever]

                   Makes me wonder about IQ of Coaches? Oklahoma fans still talk about how Stupid Miles IS!

[Dr Swineglove]

A lot of transplated yanks seem to get off on mispronouncing the name of our fair state.  Could is be due to the cold weather?
The high corn diet saturating their brains with fatty acids? Their proximity to Canadians?  Who knows.

[Boardon Hamsay]

Wonder if the dumbarse is going to Mik-hee-gun?

[jfb4ever]

             Miles GONE

[grayhawg]

Wonder if the dumbarse is going to Mik-hee-gun?

Yep.

[RT1941]

Maybe coaching at LSU just makes you dumb?   After what Saban said re:Pearle Harbor & 9-11, it really makes you wonder.

[prairiehogcompanion]

Miles is of course a Michigan alum.

I'm assuming he was a partial qualifier.

[Kenny Dowell Loggains]

He is just a conceited idiot who is either doing it on purpose, or he's one of those people who has a hard time pronouncing words... like when people say Worshington instead of Washington.  However he was at Okie St. and should know how to say "Arkansas", so I am going to say he is doing it on purpose.  He is such a turd sandwich.  Also, just like HDN he is dancing around the question about him going to Michigan... he's headed north in 2008.

[DriveByHogger]

He is just a conceited idiot who is either doing it on purpose, or he's one of those people who has a hard time pronouncing words... like when people say Worshington instead of Washington.  However he was at Okie St. and should know how to say "Arkansas", so I am going to say he is doing it on purpose.  He is such a turd sandwich.  Also, just like HDN he is dancing around the question about him going to Michigan... he's headed north in 2008.

Exactly, most little 12 folks like to mispronounce Arkansas just to be irritating.

[Kenny Dowell Loggains]

I say we somehow let it be known that people from Arkansas are now pronouncing "Les Miles"  "Lex Mills".  And when he gets pissed and wonders why we are purposely mis-pronouncing his name someone says, "I thought that's how you said your name, or is it "Les Miserables?"

[jfb4ever]

                    Maybe Miles is dumb enough to schedule a Mickey-gun vs R-kansas Series??

[slopinhogs]

yep he said it for effect and it has had one .

[OKhogfan1959]

He surely did that on purpose? If not he's a stone cold dumb ass.

[RT1941]

It seems he keeps repeating it wrong, so I think it is definitely on purpose.

[LSUFan]

It seems he keeps repeating it wrong, so I think it is definitely on purpose.

It was

[razorbackmkh]

My vote is that its intentional. And may be more of a nod towards the actual KANSAS team I would suspect. I wish we had a coach this arrogant with good reason to be so.

[Hogdomer]

He is just a conceited idiot who is either doing it on purpose, or he's one of those people who has a hard time pronouncing words... like when people say Worshington instead of Washington.  However he was at Okie St. and should know how to say "Arkansas", so I am going to say he is doing it on purpose.  He is such a turd sandwich.  Also, just like HDN he is dancing around the question about him going to Michigan... he's headed north in 2008.

Not only was he at Okie State, he pronounced it wrong before our game last year too.  Surely someone told him between now and then.  He is doing it on purpose, just like George Bush Sr. called Saddam "Sad DAMN'" Hussein just to irritate him.

[hog.goblin]

I hope the players get fired up about this (particularly the stmt about LSU being the real champs in 2006) and pull a shocker.  I would love to see Miles leave with his ignorant tail between his legs.

Plus it makes Nutt more marketable for a job elsewhere.

[John Futrall]

A lot of transplated yanks seem to get off on mispronouncing the name of our fair state.  Could is be due to the cold weather?
The high corn diet saturating their brains with fatty acids? Their proximity to Canadians?  Who knows.

True story:  In 1993, when I was getting ready to move with my parents from Flint, MI to Rogers, AR, I told a friend of mine (who wasn't the sharpest crayon in the box) that I was moving to Arkansas, to which she replied..."Arkansas....is that that city in Texas?"

Another true story: When I went to New Student Orientation at the UA, I jokingly pronounced the state as Ar-kansas, to which an orientation leader proceeded to nearly rip me a new one for not pronouncing it correctly and threatned to not allow me to sign up for classes until "I learned how to say it correctly"   (Ironic, how I ended up being an Orientation leader after that for 4 summers)


To turnaround your question(s), let me just say:

1. It's pronounced "Ill-ah-noy", not Ill-ah-noise"
2. The bridge that connects the upper and lower penninsulas of Michigan is the Mack-ih-naw, not the Mack-i-knack"
3. Sprite or Dr. Pepper is not the same as Coke, so don't call it Coke (my wife and I have this discussion all the time )

[tulsadst]

He is just a conceited idiot who is either doing it on purpose, or he's one of those people who has a hard time pronouncing words... like when people say Worshington instead of Washington.  However he was at Okie St. and should know how to say "Arkansas", so I am going to say he is doing it on purpose.  He is such a turd sandwich.  Also, just like HDN he is dancing around the question about him going to Michigan... he's headed north in 2008.

Exactly, most little 12 folks like to mispronounce Arkansas just to be irritating.

I hear ya.  I have a fairly ANNOYING sister-in-law (Sooner fan), and she pronounces it Ar-KANSAS in my presence, just to see if it gets a rise out of me.  All it gets her the the evil eye, and just that much more disdain and non-respect.

[Hog Scratch Fever]

I hope the players get fired up about this (particularly the stmt about LSU being the real champs in 2006) and pull a shocker.  I would love to see Miles leave with his ignorant tail between his legs.

Plus it makes Nutt more marketable for a job elsewhere.

I agree.  I was a little apathetic about this game until he did this and it ticked me off a little.  It would be like Nutt going on tv and saying "Lousy anna" to describe them.  It's a smart aleck way to say our state's name. 

I want Nutt gone, but I hope Dmac puts up HHHHHUUUUUGE numbers on them this Friday and I hope we win.  I usually like the SEC represented well, but now I don't care.

Oh, yeah, and it makes Nutt more marketable.

[bigyellowdog]

May he go to Michigan and get exposed for the fool he is.  The hea will come down as soon as heloses to someone other than OSU- particularly is it sis Michigan State.  Lloyd won a national championship, so the fanbase cut him a little slack after Tressel was hired at OSU and began dominating the series. 

[RazorbackGeek77]

I already posted about this, Bo Mattingly was talking about it yesterday.

[biggiepiggie]

                   Makes me wonder about IQ of Coaches? Oklahoma fans still talk about how Stupid Miles IS!

Compared to Nutt this guy is Einstein.

[Prosciutto]

That's as bad as Nutt calling his own assistant " Mall-a-zon".

[PolishPigPower]

I worked with a guy from Kansas that always pronounced it R-Kans-Azz when I was around.  He never liked it when I would refer to his home state as Kan-saw... called me a few names for that then would go off on some Rock Chalk Jayhawk chant after poking fun at "Wooo Pig Sooiiee".  Oh, by the way, he wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer... which might be why they eventually made him the boss... go figure.

[Jeff "hogfanintx" Anderson]

A lot of transplated yanks seem to get off on mispronouncing the name of our fair state.  Could is be due to the cold weather?
The high corn diet saturating their brains with fatty acids? Their proximity to Canadians?  Who knows.

True story:  In 1993, when I was getting ready to move with my parents from Flint, MI to Rogers, AR, I told a friend of mine (who wasn't the sharpest crayon in the box) that I was moving to Arkansas, to which she replied..."Arkansas....is that that city in Texas?"

Another true story: When I went to New Student Orientation at the UA, I jokingly pronounced the state as Ar-kansas, to which an orientation leader proceeded to nearly rip me a new one for not pronouncing it correctly and threatned to not allow me to sign up for classes until "I learned how to say it correctly"   (Ironic, how I ended up being an Orientation leader after that for 4 summers)


To turnaround your question(s), let me just say:

1. It's pronounced "Ill-ah-noy", not Ill-ah-noise"
2. The bridge that connects the upper and lower penninsulas of Michigan is the Mack-ih-naw, not the Mack-i-knack"
3. Sprite or Dr. Pepper is not the same as Coke, so don't call it Coke (my wife and I have this discussion all the time )

I hear you.  The Ill -an- oise one always kills me...  and a couple others I here are
Walmarks
Warsh the car
fixin-ta
and picksburgh

[tulsadst]

A lot of transplated yanks seem to get off on mispronouncing the name of our fair state.  Could is be due to the cold weather?
The high corn diet saturating their brains with fatty acids? Their proximity to Canadians?  Who knows.

True story:  In 1993, when I was getting ready to move with my parents from Flint, MI to Rogers, AR, I told a friend of mine (who wasn't the sharpest crayon in the box) that I was moving to Arkansas, to which she replied..."Arkansas....is that that city in Texas?"

Another true story: When I went to New Student Orientation at the UA, I jokingly pronounced the state as Ar-kansas, to which an orientation leader proceeded to nearly rip me a new one for not pronouncing it correctly and threatned to not allow me to sign up for classes until "I learned how to say it correctly"   (Ironic, how I ended up being an Orientation leader after that for 4 summers)


To turnaround your question(s), let me just say:

1. It's pronounced "Ill-ah-noy", not Ill-ah-noise"
2. The bridge that connects the upper and lower penninsulas of Michigan is the Mack-ih-naw, not the Mack-i-knack"
3. Sprite or Dr. Pepper is not the same as Coke, so don't call it Coke (my wife and I have this discussion all the time )

I hear you.  The Ill -an- oise one always kills me...  and a couple others I here are
Walmarks
Warsh the car
fixin-ta
and picksburgh

One that's always bothered me:

MASSA-TWO-SETTS

How do you get "TWO" out of "CHU"

[Immensehog]

Any kind of controversy he can stir will deter attention away from the Michigan job this week.

He may get a dwi and fondle an old lady before the week is out.

[sylvia]

He's a yankee.

I just saw this clip on Sportscenter from his weekly press conference.  He said that he is preparing for AR-KANSAS!!!  Either this guy is an idiot or he is just arrogant pompous ass.

[Ex-Trumpet]

A lot of transplated yanks seem to get off on mispronouncing the name of our fair state.  Could is be due to the cold weather?
The high corn diet saturating their brains with fatty acids? Their proximity to Canadians?  Who knows.

True story:  In 1993, when I was getting ready to move with my parents from Flint, MI to Rogers, AR, I told a friend of mine (who wasn't the sharpest crayon in the box) that I was moving to Arkansas, to which she replied..."Arkansas....is that that city in Texas?"

Another true story: When I went to New Student Orientation at the UA, I jokingly pronounced the state as Ar-kansas, to which an orientation leader proceeded to nearly rip me a new one for not pronouncing it correctly and threatned to not allow me to sign up for classes until "I learned how to say it correctly"   (Ironic, how I ended up being an Orientation leader after that for 4 summers)


To turnaround your question(s), let me just say:

1. It's pronounced "Ill-ah-noy", not Ill-ah-noise"
2. The bridge that connects the upper and lower penninsulas of Michigan is the Mack-ih-naw, not the Mack-i-knack"
3. Sprite or Dr. Pepper is not the same as Coke, so don't call it Coke (my wife and I have this discussion all the time )

I hear you.  The Ill -an- oise one always kills me...  and a couple others I here are
Walmarks
Warsh the car
fixin-ta
and picksburgh

Johnny Miller says Tiger Woods hit that shot "perfick."

[prairiehogcompanion]

I hear Les Miles' speech therapist travels with the team.

[Ex-Trumpet]

I hear Les Miles' speech therapist travels with the team.

With a laptop?  2x4?

[BroyledNutts]

I think he already has his MEEEEEECHIGAN accent down.....

[rickm1976]

That's the way they pronounce it up north.  All of my dad's side of the family were from Michigan and Kansas, and they all pronounced it that way.  Pi$$ed me off.

[razorshark]

Just like an A$$hole Yankee. 

[babywhiz]

His voice annoys me. It's like a thousand banshees scratching the inside of my eardrum. 

[OldArmy94]

My wife was in Atlantic City last year for a conference and some yankee pronounced it "Ar-Kansas".  She told him that it was "Ar-kan-saw" and he had the GALL to tell her she was wrong.

[hog.goblin]

My wife was in Atlantic City last year for a conference and some yankee pronounced it "Ar-Kansas".  She told him that it was "Ar-kan-saw" and he had the GALL to tell her she was wrong.

I had the gall to tell someone from Topeka he was from "Kansaw" in retaliation to his "R-Kansas".  After all, we were a state before they were.

[HatfieldHog]

Wally just reacted to Miles' comment on Sports Rap!

"....Damn Yankee...."

Wally has a gift with words.

See ya

[John Futrall]

That's the way they pronounce it up north.  All of my dad's side of the family were from Michigan and Kansas, and they all pronounced it that way.  Pi$$ed me off.

I'm from Michigan, and I never heard anyone say Ar-kansas while I lived up there.

But then again, I didn't know what a Razorback was either, so I must've lived a pretty sheltered life