Even LSU football coach Les Miles isn’t above sharing an air mattress with his family in the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav.Unfortunately for Miles, the end result was the cold floor of the LSU Football Operations Center.”It deflated the entire time,” he said. “By the end of the night, I was laying flat on the floor. I didn’t sleep very much at all. The next night I said, ‘I’m done with that air mattress.’ I slept in my office.”Like much of Baton Rouge, Miles does not have electricity at his home. A tree fell “inches short” of the Miles’ residence — instead plunging into the pool.”It’s getting plenty of water,” Miles said with a smirk.He’s toured the destruction and debris Gustav caused in Baton Rouge and knows his players are troubled with personal concerns: power, food and well-being. “This storm was different from [hurricanes] Katrina and Rita, and it seemed to have a stronger effect,” he said. “The ‘hunker down’ part was maybe a bit more sincere.”Despite the news that Saturday’s 7 p.m. game against Troy is postponed until Nov. 15, the Tigers had a “heck of a practice” Wednesday, Miles said.”We told the team today, ‘It’s hard to be strong when you’re disadvantaged, but that’s what they expect us to do, so let’s do it,'” he said. “It’s interesting because I could not dictate in my words what they should want to do. I asked the Unity Council, the leadership of our team, to stand and tell us what was on their hearts.”And senior defensive end Tyson Jackson did just that.”[He] said, ‘Listen, I’m not worth a dang at being a carpenter. I can’t drive nails through pieces of wood. The thing that I do best is play football, so let’s do that,'” Miles said. “We took his lead.”Miles said he has learned a lot from his first tumultuous season at LSU in 2005. He was called upon to serve as a coach, mentor, counselor and father in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. The Tigers postponed their 2005 North Texas game to later date in the season. LSU played 11-consecutive games and finally collapsed in a 34-13 beating from Georgia in the Southeastern Conference Championship.With this season’s postponement, the Tigers face an eight-game streak if they make it to the SEC Championship.”I realize now … how fatigued our team gets,” Miles said. “If I can, somewhere in that schedule, I will take some time to get our legs back. We’re not necessarily going to go through the exact game week that we’ve always gone through.”Miles said he understands the reasoning for the postponement and supports the University’s decision.”I think it’s a decision made for the benefit of all,” he said. “We need a game. We’d love to play. But we understand.”The Tigers plan to practice Thursday and do conditioning drills Friday before breaking for the weekend. The team is practicing inside while the Tigers await repairs to fences surrounding the outdoor fields.Miles and his staff’s families will continue to make the Football Operations Center a temporary residence until power returns to their homes.Excluding the air mattress fiasco, Miles said the bonding experience has been one to remember.”All of our staff’s kids have just become great friends,” he said. There’s no sleep curfew, and there’s a sleep-over at all times.”