Poll: Is Les Miles done after the season

[lafella]

Nah he's still got plenty of good will for now. 2011? we shall see.

 

[bnhonest]

I voted no, but if the stars line up just right, Michigan may be looking for a coach about the same time LSU is looking to get rid of one.

 

[GulfCoastTider]

I don't think the question is whether or not they can get a quality guy...but who is available? And if no one is readily available, who do you turn to to offer them big bucks and pay their buy out to leave their current job?

I hope they go back to the Big XII and get someone like Gundy or Mangino.

 

[ike221]

I sure as hell hope so. Of course I can understand Bama fans wanting him to stay. LOL

Check out the video. Its a local sports reporter owning Les Miles

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B9kfnJvB6Q]YouTube - Les Miles Calling for Spike and Lying Against Ole Miss 11/21/09[/ame]

 

[CrimsonEyeshade]

If or when Miles leaves or gets canned LSU will have no problem getting a top notch coach down to Baton Rouge. It is the only SEC team that basically has zero competition in recruiting within the state. They get the pick of the litter every year. They have talent galore coming from the state.

They could very easily get a top notch coach in there.

Maybe Buzzard, but LSU's history says otherwise.
Case in point: Les Miles was the best they could do after Nick.

 

[BamaInMo1]

If LSU loses to ARKY Ol Les will be on the way out. Be it this year or next he will be gone.

 

[CrimsonSEC]

Most telling thing I got from Lester in that video was: " I, I, I, don't know ..." several times. The Hat ain't exactly "large and in charge" of the situation.

 

[rgw]

Les will feel some heat if he loses to Petrino.

He'd be:

2-2 v. Urban Meyer (Florida)
1-2 v. Nick Saban (Alabama)
0-2 v. Bobby Petrino (Arkansas)
2-3 v. Houston Nutt (Arkansas, Ole Miss)
1-2 v. Mark Richt (Georgia)

6-11 (hypothetically, if they drop the game to Arkansas) against the "top half" coaches in the conference with the talent they've got is not acceptable.

 

[GulfCoastTider]

In 2006, I thought he was nuts.

In 2007 and 2008, I wondered if he somehow just had the ability to make the right play-call at the right time.

In 2009, I am convinced that I was right the first time. The dude is nuts.

 

[ike221]

Maybe Buzzard, but LSU's history says otherwise.
Case in point: Les Miles was the best they could do after Nick.

Naw. Skip Bertman just made a dumb hire. Mark Emmert at Washingston brought Saban to LSU. Skip replaces Saban with Les. We could have looked at Butch Davis and others. We were looking at Petrino

BUT NO. We get stuck with Les. He's a program stepdad.

 

[Van]

If richrod gets the boot from Michigan? Maybe he leaves. But, I highly doubt that LSU boots him this year unless some very strange things happen in the next couple weeks

 

[CoastGhost]

I hear Tubby and Buster Brown are both looking for work ...

 

[Redwood Forrest]

I usually don't get on a HC for "bad" plays (most of them are danged if you do and danged if you don't) but with ole Lester, it is plain: Idiot. I don't know what LSU will do, but I know what I would do.

 

[bamanick57]

One of the most incomprehensible things I've ever seen at the end of a game - totally NOT in control of the clock, his team, and apparently himself.

 

[KrAzY3]

Here's my take on the game.

Nutt tried to give Les the game with that bad two point conversion attempt in the second quarter.
Les gave it right back...

As hard as people are on Les, I don't think he's much different from Nutt. Not a bad coach, but prone to bouts of insanity that can and will cost their team wins.

I've said that Nutt plays every game like his team is down 21 and sometimes the result it that his team can upset a big team (like Florida last year), but the flip side of that is Ole Miss can lose to teams they are clearly better than (like Auburn).

I think Les is taking his team down that road. He's had enough talent (and luck) to cover up for his crazy calls, but is the talent thins a bit I think he's going to be exposed more as just being crazy rather than crazy like a fox. The real question is, as his talent thins out does he have the Nutt like ability to upset the opponent?

 

[mikes12]

I think a question worth asking is, would Michigan want him?

He has proven to be a very poor clock manager, to say the least.

 

[GrayTide]

I think a question worth asking is, would Michigan want him?

He has proven to be a very poor clock manager, to say the least.

I do not think Michigan would want him now. His opportunity to return to the "Big House" has passed him by.

 

[Bama Reb]

I don't think the question is whether or not they can get a quality guy...but who is available? And if no one is readily available, who do you turn to to offer them big bucks and pay their buy out to leave their current job?

Excellent point. My thoughts exactly.

As hard as people are on Les, I don't think he's much different from Nutt. Not a bad coach, but prone to bouts of insanity that can and will cost their team wins.

I've said that Nutt plays every game like his team is down 21 and sometimes the result it that his team can upset a big team (like Florida last year), but the flip side of that is Ole Miss can lose to teams they are clearly better than (like Auburn).

I essentially agree, however Nutt is a much better coach than Miles. I've long opined that Nutt is an offensive genius, where Miles is simply just smart enough to blame others for his own shortsightedness.
To tell you the truth, I think we should be very happy that Nutt is at Ole Miss and not LSU.

 

[Crimson Cat]

I do not think Michigan would want him now. His opportunity to return to the "Big House" has passed him by.

I agree.
I also think Miles stays at least another year.

 

[NYBamaFan]

I sure as hell hope so. Of course I can understand Bama fans wanting him to stay. LOL

Check out the video. Its a local sports reporter owning Les Miles...

This disgusts me. Who is he throwing under the bus with that lie? His QB? His assistant coaches? The signal caller?

He was clearly signaling for the spike from the sideline, and Jefferson refused to throw anyone under the bus - then the leader of that program does this? How about showing a little integrity, Miles?