re: LSU needs the Spread offense

Believe it or not football (Baseball and Basketball for that matter too) coaches at every level tend to be disciples of those they learned to coach from. Les learned under Bo who loved the ground and pound-two TE offense. Just like Bo Les recruits the bests athletes, many who become square pegs in round holes or languish on the sidelines (just as Bo did later in his tenure when the football landscape was beginning to change to a more balanced offensive attack.) because they just can't fit into this system (recruiting some of the best wide receivers and spread styled QBs in the country for an offense that does not regularly utilize that type of player).

Bo's sphere of influence is strong. You just have to look at the 49ers. Yes they have Kaepernick and Bolden and Crabtree but they are a ground and pound first team-especially when you consider the offensive landscape of the NFL. Look at how Harbaugh's arrival at Stanford changed that program from a more wide open style back to a Bo old Big-10 type of grind it out offense.

I'm sure we can all right now think of a high school program that has a coach that refuses to "update" his offense because he is committed to running the offense that the coach he learned from either his HS coach or the legendary coach that preceded him.

You can call him, right, you can call him wrong, you can want him to stay, you can want him to go, you can love him or hate him, it does not matter. Les Miles is a disciple of Bo and that will always be his football DNA. You will not see a true spread styled offense at LSU as long as Les Miles coaches here.