Football Les Miles settles buyout with LSU; is a new job on the horizon? - Page 5

T-post Tom · 11-15-2018, 04:17 PM

New golf buddy for Bill Self?

Les Miles and LSU announced Thursday that they reached an agreement on what the school owes Miles.

Miles, 65, was fired as LSU’s coach during the 2016 season and the school agreed to pay him over $9 million as part of that termination. Thursday, the school said it would pay $1.5 million of the remaining $6.5 million it owed Miles through 2023.

“It’s time for both parties to move forward,” LSU athletic director Joe Alleva said in a statement. “One of the challenges of the buyout that was in place was there just wasn’t a lot of incentive to move on to other things. We are looking to provide that and Coach Miles and his representatives also were ready. It was a mutually agreed upon goal and a very positive process from beginning to end.”

t’s easy to read Alleva’s statement and wonder if this means Miles has a very good shot at landing another coaching job in 2019. Miles has been out of coaching since he was fired at LSU and has said he wants to coach again.

He’s been prominently mentioned as a candidate at Kansas, which is parting ways with coach David Beaty at the end of the season. Miles and Kansas athletic director Jeff Long previously worked together at Michigan and Long made Miles an offer while he was the athletic director at Arkansas.

Tuesday, Kansas even filed a flight plan to Baton Rouge, where Miles still lives. That was an apparent head fake. The plane went to Colorado. We’ll find out whether or not that was a troll of Kansas fans or a sign of who will be the next coach in the next couple weeks.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/les-miles-settles-buyout-lsu-new-job-horizon-214713006.html

Bump · 11-18-2018, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Buehler445

It’s doable. Fatgino had a few year streak where he was bowl eligible. Plus the bottom of the big 12 is soft. Tcu probably won’t be awful for long but Baylor and KSU look like they will be. Win those 2 and just go get one.

I remember all of the missouri rage around here when Mangino's KU got the Orange Bowl that year. It was funny.

BWillie · 11-18-2018, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

It was not. Nobody is worried about Les Miles. Hell, when we were talking about shitcanning Odom, Miles was mentioned as an awful hire precisely because he failed at a place where he had all the advantages. I'm sure he'll get the right bag men in place to get you better recruits than you've had in many years, but your offenses will still get poleaxed. His offenses weren't even that good when he had guys like Odell Beckham and Leonard Fournette.

Les Miles goal is to win football games - not put up stats. His philosophy has alot to do with ball control and time of possession. Probably pretty similar to how Kirk Ferentz & Iowa play - even though they have opened it up a little more lately. You can win alot of football games by slinging it around - and - you can also win alot of football games playing an efficient ball control offense with a solid defense.

Coach · 11-18-2018, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Buehler445

Is he better than Beaty, and Radio? Absolutely. Positively, Yes. Is he better than Weis? **** he better be. Will he be enough to get consistently to +.500? That's a tall order.

Weis was a schematic fraud. He got the ND gig because of Tom Brady. Josh McDaniels is another example when he flamed out in Denver.

Les Miles is (should) better than Weis anyways.

The big thing KU (and other fans need to realize) has to deal with is a large number of scholarship players they have available. Didn't help the fact that Beaty nabbed 10 JUCO players in 2018. Not to mention they lose 6/7 starters on offense and 7/8 on defense, and if my memory serves me right, this team has quite a few upper classmen.

So, Miles will likely need at least 2 recruiting cycles to catch up, since in 2019, KU only has one commit. That's it.

Kiimo · 11-18-2018, 10:14 PM

The scholarship thing is going to be an issue. They should seriously consider redshirting the entire class and tanking next year if they have to.

bowener · 11-19-2018, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Coach

Weis was a schematic fraud. He got the ND gig because of Tom Brady. Josh McDaniels is another example when he flamed out in Denver.

Les Miles is (should) better than Weis anyways.

The big thing KU (and other fans need to realize) has to deal with is a large number of scholarship players they have available. Didn't help the fact that Beaty nabbed 10 JUCO players in 2018. Not to mention they lose 6/7 starters on offense and 7/8 on defense, and if my memory serves me right, this team has quite a few upper classmen.

So, Miles will likely need at least 2 recruiting cycles to catch up, since in 2019, KU only has one commit. That's it.

I'm not a ku fan so I may be wrong on this, but they had a promotional ad during the ku basketball game on Friday that said 30 seniors. That is a ridiculous number so I assume that includes kids that aren't on the active roster or something. As for guys that actually play I think it is 10 or fewer.

T-post Tom · 11-19-2018, 10:43 AM

You guys are great, but have to do it

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Originally Posted by Spott

He's not coming out of retirement to go to Kansas. I could see Colorado as a possibility, though.

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Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

He isn’t coming out of retirement to coach Kansas. Don’t worry about KU

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Originally Posted by KILLER_CLOWN

Colorado

BryanBusby · 11-19-2018, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Coach

Weis was a schematic fraud. He got the ND gig because of Tom Brady. Josh McDaniels is another example when he flamed out in Denver.

Les Miles is (should) better than Weis anyways.

The big thing KU (and other fans need to realize) has to deal with is a large number of scholarship players they have available. Didn't help the fact that Beaty nabbed 10 JUCO players in 2018. Not to mention they lose 6/7 starters on offense and 7/8 on defense, and if my memory serves me right, this team has quite a few upper classmen.

So, Miles will likely need at least 2 recruiting cycles to catch up, since in 2019, KU only has one commit. That's it.

Weis got 27 TD's out of Matt Cassel. ****ing 27, and made Thomas Jones still look capable. He just had no business in NCAA, or being a HC.

11-15-2018, 04:17 PM
T-post Tom Threepeat! Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Milk/Honey/Gazland Casino cash: $4607293	Les Miles settles buyout with LSU; is a new job on the horizon? New golf buddy for Bill Self? Les Miles and LSU announced Thursday that they reached an agreement on what the school owes Miles. Miles, 65, was fired as LSU’s coach during the 2016 season and the school agreed to pay him over $9 million as part of that termination. Thursday, the school said it would pay $1.5 million of the remaining $6.5 million it owed Miles through 2023. “It’s time for both parties to move forward,” LSU athletic director Joe Alleva said in a statement. “One of the challenges of the buyout that was in place was there just wasn’t a lot of incentive to move on to other things. We are looking to provide that and Coach Miles and his representatives also were ready. It was a mutually agreed upon goal and a very positive process from beginning to end.” t’s easy to read Alleva’s statement and wonder if this means Miles has a very good shot at landing another coaching job in 2019. Miles has been out of coaching since he was fired at LSU and has said he wants to coach again. He’s been prominently mentioned as a candidate at Kansas, which is parting ways with coach David Beaty at the end of the season. Miles and Kansas athletic director Jeff Long previously worked together at Michigan and Long made Miles an offer while he was the athletic director at Arkansas. Tuesday, Kansas even filed a flight plan to Baton Rouge, where Miles still lives. That was an apparent head fake. The plane went to Colorado. We’ll find out whether or not that was a troll of Kansas fans or a sign of who will be the next coach in the next couple weeks. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/les-miles-settles-buyout-lsu-new-job-horizon-214713006.html
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