Kansas Football: 5 reasons Les Miles should be Jayhawks’ next head coach

4. Creativity

Depending on your allegiances, Miles was affectionately or nefariously known as the “Mad Hatter” during his days in Baton Rouge. His tendency to roll the dice in the most peculiar situations made every play of a Miles-coached game worth paying following until the very end.

Fourth-and-one from his own 25-yard line and down two scores in first quarter? Why not pull out a fake punt? Winning by a touchdown in the final minutes and opting for a triple reverse wide receiver pass on third-and-short? No play call ever seemed to be off limits for Miles.

The curious decisions were infuriating when they went south, but when they worked, momentum and hysteria filled the stands and the team. Miles is the furthest from conventional you can find. He’s not going to follow what “the numbers” say and he’s going to instill his own brand of randomness into a team that was, quite honestly, predictably unexciting in recent seasons.

Kansas football needs excitement. The Mad Hatter will deliver that, ten-fold.