Report: LSU coach Les Miles coaching for his job vs Ole Miss, Texas A&M
Could Les Miles be on the hot seat and possibly fired by LSU at the end of the year?
LSU Tigers head coach Les Miles is reportedly coaching for his job against Ole Miss and Texas A&M, according to Scott Rabalais of The Advocate.
LSU was the No. 2 team in the nation only 10 days ago, but back-to-back losses to Alabama and Arkansas when the Tigers were outscored 61-30 and a slow but steady decline in recent years has resulted in Miles feeling the heat.
Rabalais reports, it’s early and no one is eager to go on the record about Miles’ future but his 25 years of experience covering the program and his variety of sources believes there’s a strong indication Miles will be coaching for his job against Ole Miss and again against Texas A&M.
Miles won the BCS National Championship in 2007 and played for another in 2011, but it’s that 21-0 loss Rabalais cites as the turning point when things went south for Miles. LSU is only 13-11 in SEC play over the last three seasons and if they lose the last two games will be an unacceptable 13-13.
The record isn’t acceptable, but it’s also the old, boring and unoriginal offense that LSU rolls out that is drawing the ire of the program’s big money boosters who aren’t in his corner. Rabalais writes, you’d be “hard pressed” to find major boosters who support Miles and the “big-money” folks don’t think his $17 million buyout would be a “deal-breaker.”
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This would be an unfathomable thought 10 days ago when LSU was undefeated, No. 2 in the nation and running back Leonard Fournette was the Heisman front-runner. Things change in a hurry in college football, but firing Miles after a disappointing November would be one of the biggest panic moves in the history of sports.
LSU can easily win out and finish with a 9-2 record and play in the Sugar Bowl. Would LSU really fire a coach who’s won a national title and played for another in a year when he took his team to the Sugar Bowl?
I highly doubt Miles would be fired, even if LSU loses to Ole Miss and Texas A&M, but he would undoubtedly be on a hot seat in 2016 and need to beat Alabama in what would be the final year with Fournette before going to the NFL and contend for a playoff spot.