Les Miles Has Louisiana Buzzing

The independent Baton Rouge paper Dig recently published a scathing article on Les Miles. Needless to say LSU fans, like super-fan Bobby Hébert, have been very upset by the choices made by Miles in a national championship game. “The only thing that I can tell you is that I am relatively honest and somewhat deceptive.” Unfortunately, this is no hypothetical. When he was hired as LSU’s head coach seven years ago, Les Miles uttered those exact words. Some, if not most, passed it off as a slip of the tongue, which has now become a familiar excuse concerning Miles’ proclivity for minced words. ~~~ Callers flooded radio talk shows with complaints, which eventually berthed conspiracy theories about why Lee didn’t play. At first, these ranged from the academic (Lee was being punished for bad grades) to the pandemic (Lee was sick), but as time wore on, the theories became more twisted, even sinister. Some purported Miles or Jefferson threw the game, citing late movement in the Vegas...