The 62-year-old coach told members of the Gridiron Club (boosters) that Saturday’s game against Texas A&M will be his last at the university, per the Tiger Rag.
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The 11-year LSU head coach was quoted as saying he’d “always be a Tiger” and “thanks for a great 11 years”, but informed the booster club’s members, in an indirect but clear manner, that Friday’s meeting would be his last with them, even explicitly saying he would not be coaching LSU’s bowl game. Earlier Friday, Miles spoke with the LSU Gridiron Club. “He said, ‘We’re a second family to him and he’s going to miss us, he appreciates his real friends, and then he told us good-bye, ‘” the source said. The Tigers are set to face off against Texas A&M at 6:30 p.m.in Baton Rouge.
LSU owes him a $15 million buyout if he gets fired, as expected.
Despite three straight below-average outings, LSU running back Leonard Fournette still leads the Southeastern Conference with 158.2 yards rushing per game and has scored 17 TDs, two short of LSU’s single-season record.
Rumors have been swirling all week about Miles’ job status.
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. They went on the ol’ internet and proclaimed to everyone that there was no way Miles would be resigning from his post after the weekend.
We’ve gone from impossible to possible to inevitable when discussing the fate of LSU Tigers head coach Les Miles in about 10 days.
“I love the place”.
“He said he didn’t say he was leaving and that he wasn’t sure what was going to happen”, Bonnette said.
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Interim head coach Clay Helton has done a relatively good job of picking up the programs’ spirits and taking it over the mountain of adversity in which it faced. I love the players that I’ve recruited…. I felt like certainly the officiating was unbiased and fair. “I looked at the penalties. That’s all I’m doing”.
