Maybe Miles COULD coach in the NFL

First off- this isn't saying he's going anywhere, or that he should. Or that he's the greatest thing since sliced bread either, just looking at his style.

Just an observation- other than last season, his best LSU teams seem to get better as the season goes along. 2006 and this season, the team had early losses that knocked them out of BCS contention, but would probably be pretty heavy favorites in a playoff. 2007 they clearly looked like that too. 2005 and 2010, judging from the bowl wins, looked like the team could win another couple rounds, also. Hell, even 2008, the Tigers looked like a wildcard that would make a lot of noise once they got in (see the utter distruction of Georgia Tech).

Point- not saying Miles is a scheme genius (Petrino offense, Saban defense) that an NFL owner wants to bring to the top level. Miles is more a steady, positive, big-picture guy, whose teams will win the games they should. He doesn't micro-manage or change much from game to game, but rather, seems to plot out the season, and say "by the end of the year, we should be THIS good", and he does seem to get the team to that level. He's easy on the players, as long as they buy into the team concept, and finds ways for them to be individual stars within the team (see- Peterson, Claiborne, Mathieu: he never clipped their wings, but instead, moved them into return positions to allow them to shine more. And the D-linemen, too- he welcomes them being brash). He also has the balls to make some gutsy calls on the big stage.

Put Miles in a rebuilding NFL team, and he'd be a disaster. But put him in a good situation, with good assistants, and I think he has the vision and leadership to be a playoff coach.