BATON ROUGE, La. — On Friday afternoon, Les Miles bustled through the airport to board a plane. The timing of this is important. Here was Miles, a top candidate for the Kansas head coaching job, boarding a flight just hours after the internet buzzed with reports that he was bound for Lawrence, Kansas. Fans and reporters, having obtained airplane travel logs, even showed up at the Lawrence Municipal Airport Thursday night expecting to see the championship-winning coach deboard a private jet.
The problem with that: Miles’s plane took him, not to the Midwest, but to the Atlantic coast.