Les Miles Twitter Faux Pas: What the LSU Coach Really Meant To Say

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Late Sunday night, Les Miles (@LSUCoachMiles), the much-maligned head coach of the LSU Tigers sent out the following tweet to his 21,576 followers: "Woeojuwejhdjwe"

The reaction by many of those followers was swift and severe.

Retweets by followers ranged from the funny, "That’s Cajun for what?" by current Fox Sports and former B/R writer, Lisa Horne, to the simple, "Yep" from yours truly.

Collegefootballtalk.com wasted no time in posting a great story to its site concerning the Miles mistweet. Within minutes the twitter world was laughing at the LSU coach. Also within minutes, the tweet was deleted from Miles' account. Nice damage control, LSU.

After much thought, I have narrowed down ten possible translations to the bizarre tweet from the bizarre coach. Here they are in no particular order.

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Les Miles clock management has been nonexistent for some time now. During the final minute of the Ole Miss game last year, the coach waited a full 17 seconds before calling a timeout leaving the Tigers only nine seconds to get into field goal range.

The next play got them into that range, but quarterback Jordan Jefferson was told to spike the ball with only a second left, an impossible task, and LSU lost.

Miles didn't learn from that incident and cost the team another potential win in the Capital One Bowl by squandering all of his timeouts and throwing the ball to the middle of the field, wasting precious seconds.

Maybe Miles just wanted to know how much time he had left to prepare for Vanderbilt this week.

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During the Tigers' run to the BCS National Title game in '07, Miles was speaking with the media prior to the annual showdown with Arkansas. Coach Miles stated that he was "preparing for Ar-Kansas" rather than worrying about all the Michigan rumors that were running rampant at the time.

The coach deservedly received a nice ribbing from media outlets all over America. Miles would get the last laugh, however, when his Tigers won the national title a little over a month later.

It's a good thing 'head coaches correct pronunciation for teams in their own conference' is not a component in the BCS formula—yet.

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During SEC Media Days, coach Miles was interviewed live by Clay Travis of 104.5 the Zone in Nashville. Travis asked the coach a simple question about how the oil spill, which was at the time still uncapped and flowing rapidly into the Gulf of Mexico.

Miles' response: "Well, it uh, the impact is more of a...you know...anything, anything along the...the uh...the...shore and those issues are very serious issues and there...the impact is on the...the uh (long pause) you know, what is, the natural resource of our country, uh, but ah...I don't know that it's, I don't know exactly, uh, to what extent it's being handled well and managed or mismanaged I have no idea.

"The only thing I know is it's very sincere and it's, it's uh, it affects more than Louisiana and it affects (muffled pause)...the ocean."

Thanks for the insight, coach.

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Miles was darn lucky that the ''Heels didn't get that last second touchdown.

A loss to the vastly undermanned Tarheels would have sealed Miles' fate immediately. As likely as it is that Miles will not survive with anything less than nine wins, a loss to UNC would have made Miles a lameduck coach at LSU for the remainder of the season no matter if he got to nine wins or not.

Maybe "Woeojuwejhdjwe" is Miles way of saying, "Geez, that was close."

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Vanderbilt, the longtime doormat of the SEC opened as a 10-point underdog against the Tigers this weekend. Perhaps it was the horrible coaching during the second half in Atlanta last weekend that took LSU from a two-touchdown favorite to just being favored by a touchdown and a field goal. Perhaps that second half meltdown and near loss had nothing to do with it.

Either way, it'd be a wise bet to take Vandy on the points. If it took a last-second defensive stand from inside the ten to defeat UNC, Vanderbilt might have what it takes to defeat Miles and the Tigers this week.

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After LSU appeared to have completely choked its dream away against Ar-Kansas in the final game of the regular season in 2007, Miles best excuse for his team staying at the top of the polls and having a chance to play for the national title was, "(LSU) hasn't lost a game in regulation,” he said. “There has not been a team that has beaten us in 60 minutes.”

It would stay that way as LSU would become the first team to win the BCS national title with two losses.

This year's LSU team is destined for multiple losses, but as long as Miles can utilize his impressive loss-spinning skills, Tigers fans could be tricked into being happy with a Music City Bowl appearance.

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Miles didn't earn the "Mad Hatter" moniker for the way he wears his ballcaps alone, but it was a major reason.

Sure, that endearing term came to be mainly because of his erratic and no-holds-barred style of coaching, but his definition of style and the manner of his hat-wearing certainly played into the nickname.

I mean, seriously coach, can't you just stick with seven and one fourth rather than pushing a Size 6? It just looks weird being that high on your head.

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Miles may not want to admit it, but he really is squarely seated atop the nation's hottest coaching seat. At SEC Media Days, the coach indicated that he had plenty of support from the LSU fans and supporters that he runs into on a daily basis.

In other words, his family thinks he's one heckuva coach.

Hopefully, for Miles' sake, he can get to nine wins without multiple clock management meltdowns, second-half vacations, and regulation losses.

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Being the head coach of a major college football program is not for the faint of heart—especially when that program is one of the SEC's top cash cows.

Phillip Fulmer was fired from Tennessee in '08 despite a 152-52 overall record, five SEC east titles, two SEC titles, and one national championship. Tommy Tuberville was fired that same year after taking Auburn to eight bowl appearances in 10 seasons.

Now Miles, who has followed up an '07 national championship with eight and nine wins respectively, has had multiple embarrassing moments, a few of which have directly resulted in losses on the football field and ended up as national news. The coach appears to be a bumbling idiot to many in the media.

No SEC program wants that. And if Miles doesn't prove otherwise this season, he's as good as gone.

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Has any coach's seat ever been as hot as Miles' has been during the offseason? Until Saturday night, LSU hadn't played a game since January, yet the coach has somehow ended up on even shakier ground as the months have passed.

When LSU led a depleted UNC team 30-10 midway through the third quarter, one potential landmine for the coach appeared to be cleared. That is, until the 'Heels had a chance to win the game with less than 10 seconds remaining, only to see the game-winning pass be deflected. LSU won 30-24, but the damage was done after the Tarheels' fourth-quarter comeback.

Miles could think that the handwriting is on the wall. Apparently, his "position wanted" tweet didn't turn out as clear as that message, however.