http://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2009/09/lsu_tigers_running_game_is_a_c.html
BATON ROUGE — Despite stressing the best aspects of LSU’s football season, especially its undefeated status, the team’s persistent offensive sluggishness appears to be wearing on Coach Les Miles.
When things are going swimmingly — or even when Miles feels he is in control or has an answer — he is a jovial host at his Monday press luncheons. He often parries reporters’ questions with a joke, or offers a rambling answer that, while sometimes short on coherence is usually long on charm.
And yet with No. 4 LSU (4-0, 2-0 SEC) high in the polls and all its goals quite reachable, Miles seems unusually terse with his answers and uncharacteristically rigid in his body language. He did not linger at the podium either, fielding some off-the-record questions, but instead beat a hasty exit, stage left, into sports information director Michael Bonnette’s office.
In between, he played up all the good things except that high poll ranking, which he said means zip until the end of the season.
“Our football team met this morning and reviewed the fact we’ve played four games and we have four victories, ” he said. “Not certain we’re where we want to be. Certainly we want to improve and play better along the way ”
nola.com
9/29/09
