Miles said Wednesday he has not spoken Alleva since last weekend. With Les Miles seemingly on the hot seat in Baton Rouge, Franks looks like the first thread to come out of an unraveling Tigers’ recruiting class. Feleipe Franks Crystal Ball – 247 Sports. “At some point in time there’s a me in this. I want to thank the LSU coaches, staff and fantastic fans for all of their support”. Miles is under contract until 2019. That figure lowers to $12.9 million after January 1. Hawthrone, who is preparing to enter retirement at the end of basketball season says, he’s going to take a vacation and has already planned one.
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Still, in the wake of three straight second-place finishes – a first in his tenure at LSU – not even Miles can talk his way out of the facts.
“Thanksgiving, [there is] a lot to be thankful for”, said Miles at the beginning of the show.
“I have no idea”, he said when asked if he’d be the coach next season at LSU. I’ve always felt that way.
“Certainly we’ve dealt with distractions before, but it appears to be a very prevalent and evident distraction”, said Miles. “As long as he’s our coach, we’re standing behind him fully”. Going to work hard. “We realize he’s a great coach”.
Miles, meanwhile, has provided no real news regarding his future and says he’s burying his head into his work. “I think our guys understand that”. True to his form, Miles changed direction and focus of the program to his team and their accomplishments.
Five rivalry games involving SEC games this week have been played for more than a century: Clemson at SC play for the 113th time, along with Ole Miss-Mississippi State (112th meeting), Vanderbilt-Tennessee (110th) and Georgia-Georgia Tech (108th). All of the losses have been by double digits and to opponents in the SEC Western Division. But the Tigers’ SEC record has declined each year since 2011, when LSU last won the SEC title.
The Tigers (7-3, 4-3 SEC) host Texas A&M (8-3, 4-3) in their regular-season finale on Saturday, amid reports that Miles could fired afterward regardless of the outcome. Nor does Florida State Head Coach Jimbo Fisher deserve to be asked whether or not he’s trying to usurp another coach’s job out from under him.
“It’s the nature of the business”. I’ve never seen a year like this year. Many shared their thoughts on the situation. It’s better because he re-ignited the boosters to start giving at a much higher level than they had been and to join modern college football.
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“You have to get in the playoffs and that is where leaders of the university have to understand what they want and how they want it”, Fisher said.
