Yes, Les Miles has been known to snack on grass — honest to goodness natural turf — during college football practices and games.
“This is true, very true,” Miles’ daughter, former University of Texas swimmer Kathryn “Smacker” Miles, said with a smile on Sunday, after her dad was introduced as Kansas’ 40th football coach at a news conference in Hadl Auditorium adjacent to Allen Fieldhouse.
“He first did it on the sideline during a game (in 2010 at LSU). He didn’t expect it to be caught on camera,” Smacker Miles explained. “Then they asked him about it in the press conference after the game.