BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- One night last week, after even more rain fell here and forced LSU's football team into its indoor practice facility, Tigers coach Les Miles sat in his office, nibbling on a burrito bowl while pondering a reporter's question.
Has a college football coach ever survived an attempted coup and come back even stronger?
As hard as Miles tried, he couldn't immediately remember an example. There were a few times in recent college football history when a group of boosters or an athletics director tried to overthrow a popular coach, but they've been few and far between.