Les Miles Might Be Fired Today
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New Orleans Times-Pic reported over the weekend they met last week to discuss his buyout. Pretty clear he's on the way out.
He may "step down"...
regardless...MB, CMS, Capiliuto, Bevin, Judd, Drake, the kidd from the Hunger Games, and Joe Craft need to gas up Cal's jet and roll down there to assist with the move...
offer him whatever you have to...whether it be OL coach, or executive athletic director in charge of football operations...
regardless...MB, CMS, Capiliuto, Bevin, Judd, Drake, the kidd from the Hunger Games, and Joe Craft need to gas up Cal's jet and roll down there to assist with the move...
offer him whatever you have to...whether it be OL coach, or executive athletic director in charge of football operations...
You people are freaking idiots if you think 62 year old Les Miles would do ANYTHING as head coach at Kentucky
Wow, the man would bring his usually incompetent quarterbacking with 3 yards & a cloud of dust offense along with NONE of the 4 & 5 star elite Louisiana talent? Sign him up!!!!
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Wow, the man would bring his usually incompetent quarterbacking with 3 yards & a cloud of dust offense along with NONE of the 4 & 5 star elite Louisiana talent? Sign him up!!!!
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I wouldn't throw the farm at Miles but I might at Chip Kelly, who will be available soon. Maybe we could get Phillie to buy out Stoops for us just to take Kelly of their hands. He is a college guy, clear and simple, just like the ole ball coach was.
would he get to playoffs, or even win the east...probably not...
but i'd bet dollars to donuts that he'd be worth at least 2 more wins a season...his coaching prowess alone would be good enough to beat vandy and UL regularly...I think he'd be able to sneak in UGA and UT wins every now and then as well...
we're not trying to get top 10 classes and championships...we're trying to sniff average and maybe get above .500...Miles could do that and sustain it...
My family and I are heading to Louisiana for the Thanksgiving holiday to visit the wife's extended family. Our niece married the son of a former LSU player who is very well-connected with the goings-on at LSU. He's actually on the university Board of Trustees. I was going to check on the Les Miles situation while I'm down there, but it sounds like things may come to a head even before then.
With what little I've heard, I think the folks down there simply have Les Miles fatigue and are ready to have a parting of the ways. I know my wife definitely feels that way.
With what little I've heard, I think the folks down there simply have Les Miles fatigue and are ready to have a parting of the ways. I know my wife definitely feels that way.
so if this happens and LSU goes after Jimbo...what are the chances FSU gives Stoops a call about returning??
Too bad we just put in artificial turf. He'd starve up here.
I might be wrong but I don't think Jimbo will leave FSU for LSU. Not really a move up: same or better tradition at FSU, same or better recruiting grounds, same or better fanbase, same or better facilities, same or better pay, MUCH easier road to CFP in ACC than in SECW. Can't see the logic in leaving Tallahassee but stranger things have happened.
Yep. Jimbo isn't a fool. He knows that his only true competition in the ACC right now is clemson and has one of the best recruiting grounds in the country. If he did go to LSU, he would have to deal with great teams week after week. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if LSU goes after Chip Kelly or even another power 5 coach that has done good.
Louisiana might not produce as much as Florida....but LSU is THE only school in the state that is a choice! And outside programs do not have much luck getting Louisiana kids to turn down the homestate school and leave.
I like him and think he comes up with some really innovative plays but the main difference in LSU and UK is and has almost always been raw talent. And a lot of that has to do with the huge amount of talent in Louisiana, of which they almost always get most of.the good ones. Fournette is a beast, we lost our only five star RB in ages to another SEC school. UK had ZERO four star recruits in the whole state as recently as 2010, the same year Texas had 44 and several five stars IIRC, and Texas splits theirs with numerous in state major programs. Louisiana has more than their fair share of in state talent.
Stoops is the best thing that ever happened to UK recruiting (in football) and has wrapped up practically all the top in state talent recently, which has also improved a lot recently, and recruiting has always been UK's main problem since THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY spearheaded integration in SEC football. Curci did well for a short time, but he saddled us with probation, the same with Mumme, and now we have such a scaredy cat administration that we are having trouble competing with a city college that laughs at the incompetent NCAA------as well as most other SEC football factories, just look at Thug U.
If Stoops did get fired NEXT YEAR or later he would have still had a tremendous positive impact on our program, even mitch could find a desirable head coach to try to make UK football competitive with the talent that Stoops has brought in to coach. We will still owe him some thanks even if he can't win in the best conference in the nation.
All of you idiots calling for Stoops head now are just dreaming, it will NOT happen, however you might be able to discourage some of the top talent (all the best of the in state, and some of the best in Ohio) that are liable to get cold feet, not because of the coaches they want to play for but because of the fickle fan base.
It isn't basketball.
True but Jimbo would have to compete with great teams week after week. He can stay put and compete for a championship almost every year.
that was about as anti climatic of a press conference as I've ever seen...
I mean if the LSU Administration has something to say, they need to come out and say it...
you could almost hear the lawyers from both parties fighting it out behind the curtain...
and Les had to go dance around questions...you could tell he was holding back from saying what he really wanted to say...
I hope he beats the socks of the Aggies, wins their bowl comfortably, and then takes as much money from them as he can..
wouldn't it be something for him to still be collecting checks from them when he takes another program to the title...
I mean if the LSU Administration has something to say, they need to come out and say it...
you could almost hear the lawyers from both parties fighting it out behind the curtain...
and Les had to go dance around questions...you could tell he was holding back from saying what he really wanted to say...
I hope he beats the socks of the Aggies, wins their bowl comfortably, and then takes as much money from them as he can..
wouldn't it be something for him to still be collecting checks from them when he takes another program to the title...
Have to admit, that's the first time I've seen the phrase "coaching prowess" in the same sentence with Les Miles' name. Maybe you're right and he's a great coach - but that's not the conventional thinking. Most consider him a great recruiter and motivator, and someone willing to take chances when others would not. Those are his strengths. X and O stuff, scheming, managing a game, understanding where the game is heading, etc. are his weaknesses.
I think he'd be an absolute train wreck here. He recruits in Louisiana, a state overrun with talent. He can lose some to some neighboring state schools and still have a top 10 class. He couldn't do that here. Besides, he's 60+ years old, not exactly the kind of persona who'd be motivated to set the recruiting world on fire. In the end, he's have mediocre talent, not be able to scheme or game plan and we'd be a hapless mess. It would be nice to see him for it on 4th and 3 occasionally, and the grass chewing would be entertaining.
I say all that as someone who likes Miles. Maybe if we'd gotten him 15 years ago his profile would've been different. I doubt it. At any rate, right now it would be a complete mismatch.
Miles would never come here. He will get another solid job.
Also to the guy praying FSU would want Stoops...comical. FSU could do a lot better than Stoops.
About none. I doubt FSU would even think about it based on what most have seen of Stoops' coaching ability. He could very well turn things around at UK with the upgrade in talent and added maturity next year and thereafter. But I think most AD's would look at how his teams have went downhill in the second half of last year and this (of course the schedule gets harder in SEC play), and would hold off to see how next year goes. I haven't seen his name mentioned as often here lately on the coaching lists as he was last year and early this year.
Vandy tape will haunt Stoops' upward mobility aspirations...
I imagine every coach has some brain fart tapes somewhere or another. Let's see how the rest of this season and next plays out. I doubt if Calipari will showing the last 5 minutes of the Wisconsin game or Meyer showing the Mich St tape at many coaching clinics.
Look at the man's results at Oky St - why would anyone with a brain or who has watched college football longer than a second think he would achieve greater at UK??
2001 Oklahoma State 4–7 2–6 5th (South)
2002 Oklahoma State 8–5 5–3 T–3rd (South) W Houston
2003 Oklahoma State 9–4 5–3 3rd (South) L Cotton
2004 Oklahoma State 7–5 4–4 5th (South) L Alamo
Oklahoma State: 28–21 16–16
2001 Oklahoma State 4–7 2–6 5th (South)
2002 Oklahoma State 8–5 5–3 T–3rd (South) W Houston
2003 Oklahoma State 9–4 5–3 3rd (South) L Cotton
2004 Oklahoma State 7–5 4–4 5th (South) L Alamo
Oklahoma State: 28–21 16–16
Who needs greater. A four year stretch of Kentucky football that good is currently beyond the imagination.
Miles hired Steve Kragthorpe as his OC, and recruited Teddy Bridgewater as a DB. He's always had amazing talent to work with, and horrible judgement.
If Miles is gone there isn't anyway they pay him 15 million without already having their next head cloach already locked up. My guess is they will go a little north and hire Justin Fuente. Heck he can beat Ole Miss with lesser talent.
Not sure I buy the TB to DB thing. At one time it was thought TB was headed to LSU, doubt if that would've been the case if he thought he was going to be a DB.
I agree. Jimbo would get a nice introduction on day 1 and then be asked why he hadn't beaten Bama yet on day 2.
In a nutshell I think the Eagles made him the GM as well as HC or some similar title with that kind of power so they go out and spend a bundle of money getting all "his type guys" including Sam Bradford, Demarco Murrey, Darrel Sproles and he's sitting at 4-6 in year 3 and just had his butt handed to him by a rookie QB in Tampa Bay. Accordingly rumor is he's on the hot seat and but would likely be a popular choice for a college team if the ax falls.
Yeah, Dear God...I'd love a 9-4 type season once every four years. Some people on here just keep on California dreaming with what they think UK football should be each year.