SEATTLE -- Canadian welterweight Rory (Ares) MacDonald, under fire in some quarters for the manner of his UFC win Saturday, has got a vote of confidence from champion Georges St-Pierre. MacDonald (15-1) received criticism from UFC president Dana White and others for not taking the fight to Jake (The Juggernaut) Ellenberger en route to a comfortable victory via decision. MacDonald and trainer Firas Zahabi, who also coaches St-Pierre, both said they executed their game plan against a dangerous counter-puncher. And that the onus was on Ellenberger to come out of his shell after MacDonald pulled ahead. St-Pierre agreed. "He shouldnt care about the critics," the champion said in a text Sunday to The Canadian Press. "You dont brawl with a brawler. "It was up to Ellenberger to open up and take more risk because he was losing and he didnt. Rory fought a great fight and even made it look relatively easy." St-Pierre and MacDonald train together at Montreals Tristar Gym. 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When Miles followed Saban in 2005, Fisher remained on staff before leaving to become the offensive coordinator and head-coach-in-waiting at Florida State in 2007.Fisher won a national championship at Florida State in 2013 and has 71-15 career record with three ACC titles. The No. 12 Seminoles are 3-1 this season.As an assistant and head coach, he has tutored four first-round quarterbacks, a position the Tigers struggled to develop under Miles once Fisher left.Fisher, in his seventh season at Florida State, said his focus is on coaching, and he isnt interested in listening to overtures from other schools.Im coaching football, said Fisher, who added he doesnt tell his representation how to handle interest from other schools but not to accept anything, dont talk anything, dont do anything.Houston?coach Tom Herman, also considered an early LSU target, told the Houston Chronicle nobody has contacted me.In addition, when asked about the LSU job by reporters, Louisville?coach Bobby Petrino said he isnt interested going anywhere.Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said on Tuesday that he had not been contacted by LSU. Im going to be the coach at Ohio State, he said.Les is a legend, Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said Tuesday at his news conference. He has helped make the SEC what it is currently. Hes one of those guys.dddddddddddd?Hes a great coach. Hes a great person. Hes a guy coming into the SEC that I looked up to. He always treated me great.After several high-profile programs dismissed head and assistant coaches Sunday, Fisher said its a shame college football is getting to that now.I think its the first sign of the [College Football] Playoff, he said. Theyre trying to turn it into pro football. If you start turning it into pro football, you better be careful what you ask for. Are you saying the season is over if a team doesnt go to the playoff? If I cant get in the playoff, a team tanks? You guys write the season is over if a team doesnt go to the playoffs.... Im talking about the big picture of this game. Theres a lot of things we all want, but at the end were not looking at the big picture and how it affects the game itself and the integrity of the game besides winning a championship, which we all want and Im as competitive as any human being out there. But think about the big picture of what you want to do -- not next year but five, 10, 15, 20 years down the road.Alabama coach Nick Saban agreed with Fisher.This is very similar to Georgia firing Mark Richt when he averages 10 wins a season, Saban said. I guess this is the time that we live in. Everybody needs to know that. But it doesnt minimize to any degree the amount of respect that we have for the job that Les Miles did at LSU and the great competitive teams that hes had there for a long, long time and the amount of success that hes had.You look at our league, and weve lost some legends in the last year with Mark Richt, Steve Spurrier, now Les Miles, Malzahn said Tuesday. Its unfortunate. Hes one of the best in the business.ESPNs Andrea Adelson and Greg Ostendorf contributed to this report. ' ' '