LINCOLN, Neb. -- You know the hat.
Les Miles still wears it well. Without a team to lead this spring, the 63-year-old former LSU coach has taken to speaking at clinics. He addressed coaches in March at North Carolina -- where his oldest son, Manny, competes as a backup quarterback -- then made stops on Friday here at Nebraska and on Saturday at USC.
His presentations in Lincoln and Los Angeles opened with an anecdote about President Theodore Roosevelt, a symbol of toughness who advocated for football in the early 1900s, when the game's violent nature threatened to halt its advancement.