re: what cause Miles undoing

I've heard three things about Miles that bother me.

1) His fingerprints are all over the ineffective offense. He changes calls, screws with the flow of his assistants, etc. IF the HC feels they need to be involved in offense, they should only do so in a 'guiding' fashion - tell the OC what you want from the drive, then let them call the plays. A HC should almost never interfere with the play-call, IMO, unless they want to call all of the plays.

2) Favoritism is an issue with players. If you're not playing the best players, you're a fool. This accusation has come up a lot in the past 3-5 years. You cannot foster a 'competitive' practice environment if you're going to play some guys regardless of their practice and game performance. You have to engage all 75 scholarship players; that's true of any boss for any successful business, IMO.

3) Loyalty is nice, but Miles' loyalty to friendly coaches is a huge issue. Miles has never been pro-active towards clear failures in the coaching staff: he always waits until it's such a glaring issue that he has to react.

Miles is facing a real challenge to his position as head coach. If LSU can't get a replacement lined up, Miles might survive this year, but he will not be around next year without some serious alterations to the way he operates the LSU program.