When LSU players lifted Les Miles onto their shoulders on that night last November — a scene that looked for all the world like a farewell tour of Tiger Stadium — he likened it to riding an elephant.
“I thought I was going down off the backside,” Miles recalled Wednesday, chuckling.
He could afford to laugh, because we all thought so, too.
Instead, after surviving a power play that almost ended his tenure at LSU, Miles is riding high. On National Signing Day, the Tigers reeled in a recruiting class that was ranked No. 4 in a composite of the four major recruiting services.