re: One thing sure has become abundantly clear....

People should comprehend that it's not a mutually-exclusive (black and white) distinction. It's not:
EITHER
Les is good, hence great coach
OR
Les is evil, hence crappy coach.

You can believe that Les was a good guy and still accept that he wasn't a great coach and suffered from some classic leadership flaws (stubbornness, tactical/game management deficiencies, player development).

I don't blame the pumpers too much - you have to admit that it was very uncanny even bizarre how the yearly performance was always just good enough to buy him more time and spawn some supporting statistics even while the brass ring was repeatedly out of reach. It was easy to blame the refs (because there was some flagrant shite), the SEC, Perrileux, and whatever else while Miles just kicked the can along. BUT hopefully all can agree that there had been some dysfunctional shite that had taken root and it was time to move on for everyone's sake. I can't imagine Les was happy with the performance either but couldn't figure out how to change bc he blamed everything else.