Saturday's dominance shows this is still Les Miles' neighborhood

Here are the finer points of the column written by Ross Dellenger of the ADVOCATE.
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“It ain’t worth getting rid of him,” said ESPN radio and TV host Scott Van Pelt, who offered an outsider’s perspective on the Miles hate.

Van Pelt sees LSU as a house in the nicest neighborhood in town: a two-story abode with a lush, green yard, in-ground pool and a garden.

It’s just as nice, and mostly nicer, than any other house, aside from one.

As a homeowner, Miles has the unfortunate location of being direct neighbors with the best place in town, a sprawling mansion just a few feet away.

Nick Saban owns that house.

“You’ve got this neighbor you kind of compete with,” said Van Pelt, who was in Baton Rouge on Friday for a live airing of his radio show from the LSU parade grounds. “And in the last couple of years, they’ve upgraded their kitchen and they’ve built a deck and so you’re looking at their house. We don’t look back at others whose houses ours are nicer than. We only look at people whose houses are nicer.

“My long-winded, round-about anecdote is I would appreciate the house I’m in, and I wouldn’t go trying to hire somebody to redo it because you might not end up with as nice a house.”