Les Miles
Les Miles
Leslie Edwin Milesis an American football coach and former player. He is the current head football coach at Louisiana State University, a position he has held since January 2005. Miles is nicknamed "The Hat" for his signature white cap, as well as "The Mad Hatter"...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth10 November 1953
CityElyria, OH
control
We have to control him. He's their big playmaker.
additional creates justin opportunity step
This now creates an opportunity for Justin and Shyrone to step up and get some additional carries.
expect short
We don't expect him back in the short term.
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Several of our players have more people (evacuated family and friends) in their apartment than they have any right to have in their apartment. And you can't kick them out because certainly it's the right thing. And they're not sleeping, and some of them don't have their own bed. There's some drain on our players both emotionally and physically.
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Those things can be adjusted. There will be a differing degree of 'come get ya' and press and cover one and a good zone attack. That variance will change week to week.
might next team worst
This team (LSU) might be the worst team to play if you're the next team,
banner early forward great justin terms three
It's early to guess, but I think in terms of our three tailbacks, I think Justin Vincent is going to have a banner year. He's unselfish. He's the right kind of person. He's improving, and I look forward to him having a great year.
bit campus failed great lose men needs operated start summer team time
It's a great day. It's time to get the team on campus and start getting better. I think the summer went well. We had two men that failed the conditioning test, one of which was operated on and the other just needs to lose a little bit more weight.
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We better understand that games in this stadium with non-conference opponents can have a very negative effect if they're not prepared, ... UAB and Miami of Ohio are two such evidences of that.
defense offense
We're getting out-schemed by the defense right now, ... Our offense has been sloppy.
coach gone guys morning practice schedule separate specialize veterans younger
We are going with two separate practices, one for the upper classmen and veterans and one for the younger guys. The schedule allows us to specialize and coach the younger guys individually much more. When the newcomers' practice comes in the afternoon, they will have already gone through the morning meeting.
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Our football knows how to play the second half. We finished the game. Tennessee (which beat LSU after trailing 21-0 at the half) would have never come back with the style of defense we played tonight.
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Spadoni will be a guy that will play a little bit more football. Ali Highsmith and Kenny Hollis, those two will be moved around in those outside spots. We think we'll be fine there.
defense extremely played
I thought that our defense stymied them all day, and really played extremely well,