Les Miles
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"Leslie Edwin "Les" Miles" is an United States/American college football coach and the current head coach of the LSU Tigers football team. He is nicknamed "The Hat" for his signature white cap, as well as "The Mad Hatter".

Prior to coaching LSU, he was the head coach at Oklahoma State University - Stillwater/Oklahoma State. He was formerly an assistant at Oklahoma State as well as at University of Michigan/Michigan, University of Colorado at Boulder/Colorado, and with the Dallas Cowboys. Miles has held the head coaching position at LSU since January 2005 and coached the Tigers to a win in the 2008 BCS National Championship Game against 2007 Ohio State Buckeyes football team/Ohio State, 38–24. His original contract ran through 2017, but will now expire in 2019 after receiving a two-year extension during the 2012 season.

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As a coach, you work hard to mask really insignificant distraction. It's easy to do. You deny it, you work beyond it. Here, you don't do that.

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This football team, like the state that they represent, has been through an enormous, difficult time. But they're ready to play.

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I actually thought we were going to win in overtime. I couldn't believe that we didn't win the game.

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I don't know that you block things out in the scope of the magnitude of loss here.

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Then a guy said, 'Well, you know, 12 victories is probably just what we'd like, Coach,' ... I said, 'Well, you know, frankly, that's only one game left.' We'd like to win and certainly that's what we will pursue.

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I suspect that the field of play will be different than the red carpet that was rolled out here. I look around the crowd and I see no Arizona State players or coaches, so I'm suggesting that a first down will (have to) be earned Saturday night.

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We had families of our players staying in the dormitory with them, and still do.

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I think it's a compliment to the talent that's on our team, ... I don't think talent in and of itself is the reason why you win championships. I don't think that that will determine where we finish. It will be a character and style and chemistry that's developed through a season at LSU that will determine where we finish.

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