Time is up for Les Miles

The university contradicted an earlier report that suggested that Miles had told members of the Gridiron Club, an LSU booster organization, that Saturday’s game against Texas A&M would be his final one with the program. This culminated on Monday when multiple reports said the school was ready to fire Miles by buying out the remaining years on Miles’s contract, as well as the contracts of his assistant coaches. It’s an interesting choice of wording, given the situation.

“I’m not very good with a hammer and nails”, Miles said Jackson told him at the time. LSU officials have made no public comment about Miles’ job status, though it was reported last week that Miles’ $15 million buyout would not be an impediment to a coaching change.

But after another year of losing to Alabama to go with bad setbacks to rivals Arkansas and Ole Miss, it’s simply time for LSU to move into a new direction.

Apparently others in attendance misheard what Miles told them, or just misinterpreted his intentions, resulting in a bit of a firestorm on Friday afternoon that LSU had to put out.

I’ve always had a great amount of respect for Miles.

Miles, 62, has proven to be very good as a coach and will bring in a 110-33 overall record in 11 seasons at LSU for a. 769 winning percentage to the Texas A&M game. It seems like he loves getting up every day and going to work, and I’m sure he is the flawless guy to sit back and listen to football war stories from all night.

Few thought of Les Miles as a great hire at LSU when he was tabbed to replace Nick Saban in the big chair in Baton Rouge in 2005. I have a policy: I don’t speak about jobs. If this is his last game, he told them he appreciates them for all that they had done.

Speculation that the regular-season finale will also be Miles’ final game as LSU’s coach has dominated Louisiana sports talk shows, internet chat rooms and newspaper columns lately. So it goes without saying that Miles, for as eccentric as he is at times, is not an idiot.

Knowing that Miles takes pride in a physical brand of football, that is unacceptable on all accounts at LSU.

Nice try, LSU, but this was not the best move to make with everything going on.