Matt Leinart comments on Miles today.

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Question: Why aren’t Les Miles and Bob Stoops evaluated by the same standard? Why is Miles on the hot seat but Stoops is not?

Here’s the major difference between these two in my opinion. You look at Bob Stoops and over the course of his tenure he’s won 9 big 12 champs, he’s won a title, and been to the title game multiple times, and he gets blamed for losing the big games, but he continually wins 10-11 games, but here’s the biggest difference.

Bob Stoops last year made a change. He hires Lincoln Riley, he adapts to the changes in college football and understands that he needs to make a change offensively because this is the way college football is going, and this is the way our conference is going. And we saw the benefits of that change last year, when they made the run to the college football playoff. I thought Lincoln Riley did a great job with the offense and the run game and all those things.

With Les Miles, the difference is, is he’s stuck in slow motion, and it’s the same inept offense that we’ve seen for how many years now? And he hasn’t made the change, and he hasn’t got out of his own way and say “listen, there’s a problem here, you know, we can’t develop quarterbacks, our offense if awful every single year, and yet we still have first round wide receivers, and we still have NFL talent all across the board.” And that’s the frustrating thing with me is, LSU is so good talent wise on the roster, and this team is loaded, but yet they haven’t made the change to adapt to what college football is. He hasn’t said, “listen, I gotta go out there and change my offense.” And no disrespect to Cam Cameron, but there’s a reason why he’s been fired a couple of times, and there’s a reason why, for whatever reason, why in this offense they haven’t produced a quarterback who can play.

And that’s the difference for me. That’s why I separate those two, especially in the last 2 years, because Les Miles just can’t push his ego aside. I think Les Miles is a great coach, and obviously he’s won a lot of games, but you have got to make the changes necessary to see your team take that next step, and he has not done that to this point.

[co-host says that it seems miles is just being defiant] And that’s the thing, it’s just, “listen, you know what, I’m gonna be stubborn, I’m gonna do what I wanna do”, and that may be what ultimately gets him fired, and he’s a good coach and has been successful, but the expectation at LSU is that you must beat Alabama and compete for conference champs if you wanna be the coach there, and I don’t think he’s done the necessary things to take that next step.

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With Les Miles, this game [Auburn] is about getting the season back on track, it’s getting the most out of your players, and again, the thing that just continues to befuddle me is, the fact that you’ve got some of the best talent in college football and you’re just not maximizing it.

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