Les Miles on the way out?

If you abandon your coach dangling within the wind, as LSU is at present doing with Les Miles, recruiting is likely one of the 1st things to take successful. “I would love to think that there’s another 11 years”.

“I have described the perimeter”, Miles said in reference to his players being caught in the middle. Rumor has it that boosters are ready to pay $15 million of the $20 million dollar buy out that’s in Les Miles contract. “I’m not going to get into my view”.

It was only three weeks ago when LSU was ranked second in the college football playoff rankings, Dodd points out.

Fisher has been the head coach at Florida State since 2010, succeeding the legendary Bobby Bowden after previously serving as Bowden’s offensive coordinator and being tabbed as the coach-in-waiting.

“I’m not going to look to defend or make a case (for myself)”, said Miles, 62.

Since the then No. 9 Tigers lost, 31-14, to unranked, four-loss Arkansas on November 14, reports in various publications have said Miles is expected to be fired soon. Dural reportedly suffered a hamstring injury and will need three months to recover, Miles said.

“If you’re going to do this, you’d better have a (Florida State head coach) Jimbo Fisher in your back pocket, you better have a (Clemson head coach) Dabo Swinney in your back pocket”, DOdd said, “and as we sit here right now, I don’t know if they do”. “Certainly we’ve run into distractions before, but this seems to be a prevailing and evident distraction”.

“I have not”, Miles said. “The issue is that for these players, you want a great game plan, give them the opportunity to play and play well and allow them to have the success they’re capable of”.

“As much as it’s very public, it’s very private too”, he said. He clarified that it was about a “business matter not to do with anything pertinent to the questions” about his job. He was asked what Bo Schembechler, his former mentor and coach at MI, would have told him in a time like this.

Earlier in the day on the SEC coaches teleconference, Miles said he hadn’t spoken to athletic director Joe Alleva since Sunday. During the meeting, he urged his players to focus on Saturday night’s game against Texas A&M, not his job status, receiver Malachi Dupre said.