If LSU coach Les Miles needs any pointers on keeping his team focused this week before its big game with Oregon, all he has to do is call the coach of his first opponent from the 2010 season, Butch Davis. Now while he does not want the same fate as Davis--fired 10 months after the game--he can learn how Davis got a depleted UNC squad ready to go toe-to-toe with the heavily-favored Tigers. Many of the best players on that Carolina team were suspended because of dealings with an agent and so their is a similarity to a Bengals team that perhaps has not become that depleted, but has to play Oregon without key players such as QB Jordan Jefferson and dynamic play-maker Russell Shepard and amid a cloud of controversy. Like Davis, Miles needs to both believe in the depth of is talent, and get the remaining players to play like underdogs. Talented players with something to prove is a recipe for success and Miles was very good in getting his Oklahoma State squads to play like champions when they squared off against OU.
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