Coaching carousel: LSU
There is a lot of speculation that LSU will part ways with Les Miles, with their boosters paying off his huge buyout. Les is expected to address that with his team tomorrow. While who might replace him is an interesting topic, I'm interested in what he'll do next year.
A TV gig seems most likely. Does he become a candidate for oher P5 jobs? Not many fired coaches go straight to another HC job, but he would have that opportunity. How crazy would it be for him to come here for a year? He could be an analyst rather than a position coach. He stays involved in coaching without a high pressure position and gets to come home. Salary is irrelevant with his buyout. .
November 22nd, 2015 at 4:35 PM ^
November 22nd, 2015 at 4:43 PM ^
Periods of success mixed with long period of mediocrity.
November 22nd, 2015 at 7:06 PM ^
November 22nd, 2015 at 4:51 PM ^
LSU on the fringes. When you think of the best programs in college football history LSU is pretty far down the list.
November 22nd, 2015 at 5:23 PM ^
LSU football is Billy Cannon and the Saban/Miles years with a whole lot of average in between.
November 22nd, 2015 at 8:00 PM ^
November 22nd, 2015 at 4:54 PM ^
Maybe not a top five or even top ten job historically. But it is the only major state university in a recruiting rich state. It is a great job.
November 22nd, 2015 at 5:15 PM ^
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November 22nd, 2015 at 4:38 PM ^
Les is a bit off the wall, but his record speaks for itself.........in a really difficult division of a strong conference.
November 22nd, 2015 at 4:38 PM ^
NOLA.com is reporting rather voluminously on this story naturally - LINK
Something I found rather interesting:
Miles met privately with athletic department officials last week to discuss his future, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. Potential termination options and strategies were discussed, including the possibility of Miles' retiring after the 2016 season.
It doesn't sound like a lot of Tigers fans have that sort of patience, to wait for him to retire after next season, but as others said, I don't think he's short of other opportunities however he leaves LSU.
November 22nd, 2015 at 4:47 PM ^
November 22nd, 2015 at 5:21 PM ^
If you've got sources for that assertion, let's see them.
You're saying that LSU is going to fire a 62-year old with a NC under his belt for a guy who would be 60 in fall 2016 who's never sniffed a NC and hasn't spent one second of his coaching career south of Ohio.
Nick Saban was 49 when LSU hired him in 2000.
November 22nd, 2015 at 9:23 PM ^
November 22nd, 2015 at 5:28 PM ^
dantonio ever leaves MSU...he's a God there.
November 22nd, 2015 at 6:14 PM ^
November 22nd, 2015 at 4:48 PM ^
have you ever heard his halftime or post game remarks on the spot?
Maybe he wouldn't be worse than Mack Brown but I just don't see Miles as an analyst. He's in his 60's now, been getting paid great money for over a decade. He'll be done with football imo.
November 22nd, 2015 at 5:26 PM ^
In this market, with so many Power 5 head coaching jobs having already opened up (and more to come in a few weeks), LSU would be insane to get rid of Les Miles.
November 22nd, 2015 at 5:29 PM ^
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November 22nd, 2015 at 6:02 PM ^
November 22nd, 2015 at 6:56 PM ^
Well, I would agree except that according to the article, LSU's boosters are willing to pay $15 million to get him out of there. LSU would be foolish to tell them no. I guess the fools are the ones with $15 million to burn.
November 22nd, 2015 at 8:28 PM ^
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November 22nd, 2015 at 5:40 PM ^
November 22nd, 2015 at 6:07 PM ^
Maybe Les will go to Arizona when Rich Rod goes to Va Tech. That would be a different kind of coach in the Pac-12 (16?).
November 22nd, 2015 at 6:14 PM ^
More brain power!
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November 22nd, 2015 at 6:50 PM ^
If Les wants to stick around with coaching and he indeed leaves LSU in one way or another, the only programs that would seriously consider him would be a program that wouldn't care if he left in 3-5 years. I don't see him coaching that much longer past that point. USC, Mizzou, SC, Miami, etc are looking for more long term.
Maryland, VT, Illinois, and Hawaii could be serious contenders. They just want someone to help jump start their program, get a few good years, a few decent recruits and have him help the university find a suitable replacement when his contract is up.
I really don't know if he would consider the B1G in any way, shape or form, just because of Michigan--but we know money and the ideal situation talks.
I could see him coaching Hawaii. That's a good spot to retire from, location wise. ;)
November 22nd, 2015 at 7:56 PM ^
the same amount doing nothing as coaching for some time. He's got a $15 million buyout. Goes down to $12.9 M in January. The buyouts typically go down by the amount of their pay. That's why Fisch is underpaid this season .
November 23rd, 2015 at 12:03 AM ^
November 22nd, 2015 at 7:02 PM ^
To make Brian look like a daggum genius
November 22nd, 2015 at 8:32 PM ^
USC should make a run at him. I could see him doing really well there for about 10 years before hanging it up.
November 22nd, 2015 at 9:13 PM ^
November 22nd, 2015 at 9:27 PM ^
Gruden.
November 22nd, 2015 at 9:39 PM ^
I could see a program with more money than sense (ie. Maryland) paying a lot of money for 5-8 years of rapidly shrinking Lesticles.
November 22nd, 2015 at 9:58 PM ^
I might be forgetting a lot of people--I welcome corrections.
But the last coach I can remember getting fired and immediately landing another head coaching job was Fred Akers in 1986. It used to happen pretty routinely, but not any more.
And I don't think it's an accident that the change more or less coincides with the rise of ESPN and other national sports media. A coach's problems at his school were local news back in the 60s and 70s. I didn't have any idea people in Missouri were unhappy with Dan Devine, or Maryland with Jerry Claiborne, and I wouldn't have cared much if I'd known. But now everybody knows everything whether they want to or not, and I think it makes it a lot harder for an AD to sell a recently-fired coach to his fanbase. (Well, in Devine's case it was the Packers, not another college, and he left before Missouri had a chance to fire him. But the principle's the same.)
November 22nd, 2015 at 11:02 PM ^
Ron Zook
Ty Willingham
November 22nd, 2015 at 11:19 PM ^
of large buyouts than sports media.
November 22nd, 2015 at 11:28 PM ^
Thanks, that makes sense.
Although I don't think it was true yet in the '80s. Coaches salaries hadn't inflated; if there were buyouts they didn't amount to much.
November 22nd, 2015 at 11:25 PM ^
Is it edible? Can it even be randomly pulled up by hand? If not, this may help to narrow down the number of possible next stops.
You're welcome.
November 22nd, 2015 at 11:54 PM ^
November 23rd, 2015 at 3:40 AM ^
November 23rd, 2015 at 7:18 AM ^
The LSU fans sound like Michigan in the last few years of Coach Carr. Running doesn't work and they want an innovative offense like the spread. Before Saban and Miles, LSU had a lot of bad and middling years. Let them pull a spread guru from somewhere and burn through the center of the earth for a decade.