re: Les Miles is not well thought of on gameday...

I think beating Alabama in the game of the century fricked Les up. He was able to beat a great team by playing conservative football and playing great defense. Boom. The new recipe. He just out thinks himself sometimes. In his early years at LSU he was much more unpredictable, he's made some head scratching calls that worked in his favor because in reality he knew they would- he had his finger on the pulse of the game and knew that the fake field goal would work, or knew the reverse on 4th down would work. Same thing as Saban calling the onside kick in the title game. Ballsy call but he knew it should work. Since 11/5/11 though, he's been pretty conservative and his head scratching calls don't really appear like a calculated risk with good odds, they seem more like a desperate predictable gamble at times. 2013 is the obvious outlier, but Les knew he couldn't rely on his defense and, let's be honest, throwing the ball to Landry and Beckham with a smart quarterback when teams have to respect Jeremy Hill isn't exactly a risky game plan. I think Les has to adjust his philosophy if he ever wants to win another title, because I think the game has evolved and passed him by. He could very well prove me wrong, sometimes the ball bounces your way over the course of a season and sometimes it doesn't, but it looks to me like everyone knows the plan to beat LSU under the current philosophy.