There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
—Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Les Miles is an entertaining man. He’s engaging, takes time to talk to people, is interesting, and is therefore immensely popular with his players, the media, and a certain faction of the LSU fanbase. The rational ones, the ones who appreciate what he’s given them and can comprehend that football is fun. None of these fans sit on the LSU administration, however, and his relationship with them was frosty at best and he’d left himself very little room for error in 2016.