Amid storms, staff illnesses and 8-5s, Miles at 11 - Shreveport Times

BATON ROUGE – Few football coaches anywhere have lived what Les Miles has over his first decade at LSU. His second decade on the field begins Saturday when the No. 13 Tigers host McNeese State at 6:30 p. m. in Tiger Stadium. Two hurricanes in less than a month impacted his first schedule in 2005, postponing his first season opener, then moving his second scheduled season opener to Arizona State and finally switching his third try at a home opener from a Saturday to... “I was a brand new guy to this state and to the school,” he said last week in the LSU football facility on Skip Bertman Drive that was not quite completed that first season when he and his staff spent part of the season in it and part in the old... He showed beginner’s skill, winning 10 straight games in less than 10 weeks to win the Southeastern Conference West and finishing 11-2 overall and 7-1 in the SEC. Miles has won double-digit games in a season seven times out of 10 while winning three West titles, two SEC titles and one national championship while playing in two. It is only Miles’ second team to come off a disappointing, 8-5 season. The last one was in 2008 and was followed by a 9-4 season in 2009, then 11-2, 13-1 and a pair of 10-3s. “Our team, eight wins, certainly not enough,” he said now and back then. Another eight-win season could mean a hot seat for Miles entering the 2016 season. Source: www.shreveporttimes.com