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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 |
Colorado
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KANSAS!!!!
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He's not coming out of retirement to go to Kansas. I could see Colorado as a possibility, though.
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He’s headed to Kansas.
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Sports Illustrated's Ross Dellenger reports that Kansas is finalizing a contract agreement with former LSU HC Les Miles.
Per Dellenger, an announcement on Miles' hiring could come as early as this weekend. The former Tigers head coach has been linked to the open job in Lawrence ever since the team fired David Beaty at the beginning of the month. He and KU AD Jeff Long have a relationship which goes back to the 1980's. Miles went 114-34 at LSU prior to his midseason firing in 2016, but would be in for a major rebuilding project with Kansas should he accept this job. Potential contract length and monetary terms, here, remain an unknown. Stay tuned. |
Yup, I'll take Miles all day everyday. Great hire for our program peeps. :)
My best bud is an LSU alum, he loves Miles as well. |
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If les miles can make fatass demarcus russell a first round first pick qb he can do anything.
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Not saying where he’s going - I have no idea, but COLORADO!?!? Seriously!?!? ROFL |
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LMAO No shit. |
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I’m not against this hire...
...but what’s in it for Les? At 65 years old, he isn’t going to be very desirable to other programs at, say 70 years old if he does the unthinkable and turns the KU Football Program around. Is he thinking he will retire at KU? Is he just looking for another pay day from a programs with little expectations like so many others? I just don’t get the hire from Les’ side of things... |
Mangino, Mangino
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Yeah, Les squandered a lot of NFL talent at LSU with an ancient offensive philosophy. Not sure how well that will translate to Kansas or the Big 12. A Leach disciple probably would be a better fit?
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Good hire to get them at least to respectability and minor bowl games
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He gave up $5 million to coach at one of the three worst Power Five schools. So even if his contract is 5/15-20, he'll be losing a quarter to a third of that. Miles recruited well at LSU, but that school recruits itself. I'm sure he'll bring in better recruits to Kansas, but his archaic philosophy will hamstring them.
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Maybe he’s onboard for the premium basketball tix
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Well, again, no idea where he is going to end up - but CBS Sports and ESPN have him going to Kansas......
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Way better than anybody else KU could draw.
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It is a win for him. If he gets the program to a bowl in 2 to 3 years in a mostly weak power 5 he will get an offer from a good school.
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If you're USC or some SEC school, would you be satisfied for having Les around for only like 5 years? |
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The job will be minimal stress with zero expectations for awhile and they are probably giving him a nice contract. Don't know why he'd want another high stress gig at nearly 70. |
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I think there was a pretty good reason when NU, UF, FSU, A&M, Oregon, and UCLA all had openings last year and none of them came knocking. |
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I'm surprised this thread doesn't have more legs. This is a really big get for Kansas.
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2016 - 39th offense
2015 - 77th 2014 - 35th just awful offenses lol |
2014 - 15th defense
2015 - 9th 2016 - 25th |
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1. The offense. Those LSU offenses win 0 games in the Big 12 without those LSU defenses - which he won't have. Hopefully he hires a good coordinator and steps away. 2. The Charlie Weis treatment. I don't think he'd do that to his friend, but man, I'm jaded as ****. 3. At LSU, he was criminally limited to Louisiana recruits. Now, Louisianna has a ****ton of recruits and it is kind of defensible. I hope he's not thinking he can do that at Kansas. 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. |
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Play-by-play announcer Tim Brando, a close friend of Miles’ who gave the Miles-to-KU talk life via Twitter a couple of weeks ago, referenced Miles vaguely throughout Saturday’s broadcast and pushed the excitement meter up a notch or two near the end of the game.
With just a few minutes remaining and the outcome decided, Brando said there would be news, “more than likely (Sunday),” out of Lawrence and then went on to gush about Miles’ ability, how he could put together a quality staff and why he believed Miles could turn things around. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ According to flightaware.com there is a flight at 7:10 am from Raleigh-Durham to Topeka Regional landing at 9:21 am. Miles was at his son Manny’s senior day in Chapel Hill. Coincidence with the flight or is this one carrying precious $4 mil/year cargo? |
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It has been rough since Mangino left, it literally bout ran me off, but 7 to 8+ wins a year and all of Jayhawk Football Nation will be reborn all over again. |
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This KU team is getting better, the talent hat was found the last 2 years is getting much better. Beaty just ran out of time because of his slow first 2 years with the fan base and a new AD. I fully expect Miles to come in, shore up a few things and in year 2, become bowl eligible somewhere. We should be 5 -6 now, but because of some stupid shit happening in 2 games, we are not. Tonight's performance is a glimpse of what is to come with a few more players and better coaching. |
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Looks like this is happening.
This is the ultimate test of college football. Is it the coach? players? Is he good or did he have talent at LSU? |
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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. |
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.
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You guys are great, but have to do it :D ...
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