LSU coach Les Miles receiving mixed commentary amid national media attention
These last two weeks, media outlets both local and national have struggled to understand LSU football coach Les Miles - and what he means to the Tiger faithful.
In the wake of the Tennessee game two weeks ago, when the team's last-minute confusion sent a rain of cups, water bottles and obscenities pouring down from the stands, Miles seemed to have a target on his back. Major national sports commentators discussed the rage some fans had for the coach, despite his perfect record this season.
"Like perhaps no 5-0 coach before him, LSU's Les Miles has managed to win all of his games while simultaneously enraging his team's fans," wrote Darren Everson in a Wall Street Journal article titled "Undefeated and Completely Miserable."
"Miles might be the least-popular coach that a 5-0, 12th-ranked team could ever have," said an Associated Press story about the game.
But in the wake of a hard-fought Florida victory Saturday - a game clinched partially by a wild fake field goal on fourth-and-4 with 35 seconds on the clock - commentators started to speak of Miles in a confused, almost awed tone.
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