Les Miles: LSU reportedly prepared to fire Tigers head coach
LSU is reportedly prepared to fire head coach Les Miles.
The rumors cropped up Tuesday night that the LSU Tigers were considering parting ways with head coach Les Miles depending on what happened in the team’s final two regular season games.
After LSU lost to the Ole Miss Rebels and weren’t very competitive, the once crazy thought that Miles could be fired from LSU suddenly turned to a possibility. From Saturday to Monday, that possibility now seems like an inevitability.
Yahoo’s Pat Forde reports LSU is “prepared” to fire Miles, although no final decision has been made.
Y Sources: LSU "prepared" to fire Les Miles. No decision final at this point, but it is being discussed. Story to come.
— Pat Forde (@ByPatForde) November 23, 2015
Further, ESPN’s Joe Schad reports it is a “very good possibility” that Miles’ $15 million contract is bought out, something that jives with the original report from Scott Rabalais of The Advocate who first reported that Miles was coaching for his job.
Buyout of Les Miles' contract is "a very good possibility," high-ranking source involved in decision on coach's future tells @schadjoe.
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) November 23, 2015
After three straight double-digit losses Miles is in some hot water for the first time in his career and while this seems like a knee-jerk reaction and a panic move that could be one that many in and around the LSU football program come to regret over the next few years.
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Miles is 110-32 in 11 seasons, has 64 NFL Draft choices, one national championship, an appearance in another, two SEC championships, three SEC West championships, but it sounds like he won’t survive to add to those totals.
LSU has trended down since losing the national championship game to Alabama in 2011. Since going 6-2 in the SEC in 2012, LSU has not beat Nick Saban and Alabama and has a 13-10 record in SEC play as the likes of Ole Miss, Arkansas, Mississippi State have caught up to, if not passed LSU despite the Tigers beating them on the recruiting trail and having a better roster.
If this is the end for Miles, which it looks like it will be, it was a great run that took a dramatic turn for the worse when LSU played Alabama on Nov. 7 as the No. 2 team in the nation before being exposed and was the beginning of the end for Miles.