Les Miles may have a fear to overcome.

I was listening to a talk show about LSU on the radio and the point about LSU offense was brought up. LSU has had some pretty high powered offenses who had an elaborate passing attack under Les. (See '05, '06, 07) So the arguement that Les doesn't know offense or is an offense killer doesn't really hold water because he has proven that the Tigers can be electric with him in charge. The point was brought up that when Perriloux was kicked off and Lee was thrust into the role of starter, and the disasterous '08 season happened, Les in a way became scared. Excuse the ridiculous comparison but similar to the waterboy when the coach sort of went into a shell, it seems as all those pick sixes has left the river boat gambler a little gun shy. It makes sense considering that LSU could really throw the ball before the Lee disaster yet now Les is afraid to open it up for fear of the offense screwing things up. This is probably why he enjoys having Stud run the offense because Stud isn't going to contend with Les to open things up. Les says run the ball, Stud says yes. Unfortunately he will have to get over that at some point because this conservative run down your throat offense doesn't always work.