Les Miles Is a Very Good Coach

You don't have a 7-0, #2 ranked team in week 8 of college football with a top recruiting class in your 11th year having won as many games as Les has if you are not a very good coach.

Everyone saying that Les is horrible and a moron are just stupid. Your arguments beyond that are invalidated by you ignorance regarding the first order issues.

Les' problem is that he has a philosophy that does not always work when he gets punched in the face. His success leads him to believe that he is right and he cannot conceive that his plan will not work. He cannot adapt. His weakness is his pride over his own success.

And, Saban, the great psychologist, knows how to exploit it exactly. For Les, it is always that night in November, 2011, when the team made in his image, won 9-6 in the Game of the Century. That validated Les and he will always go back to that and try to recreate that outcome.

For Saban, it is always today, and football changes. He is confident in his plan, but is willing to adapt to keep in front of everyone else.

Les Miles is a very good coach. In good seasons, he will go 10-2. In bad seasons, he will go 8-4. And, that is about it. To call him stupid is just stupid. To say that his pride is his downfall nails it pretty accurately.