Les Miles decision about more than money, LSU President F. King Alexander tells magazine
Les Miles celebrates with team mates and sings the LSU alma
mater after LSU's win over Texas A&M in Baton Rouge, Saturday,
November 28, 2015.
(Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)
(Ted Jackson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
By Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
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on December 03, 2015 at 11:06 AM, updated December 03, 2015 at 11:41 AM
LSU's decision to keep Les Miles as football coach was about more than the millions that would have been spent to buy out his contract, LSU President F. King Alexander told Baton Rouge Business Report.
Alexander also said the final decision to retain Miles, who has a 111-32 record in 11 seasons, was made in the third quarter but "pretty much had been made" days earlier.
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Les has gotten depressingly easy to predict. Best comment on the last game that sums up Les Miles for the past few years was
"Everyone in the stadium and everyone on the other team saw that play coming"
There are 10 year old kids playing Madden that are less predictable.
"Everyone in the stadium and everyone on the other team saw that play coming"
There are 10 year old kids playing Madden that are less predictable.
@Chalmette02
The best you can say now is that maybe Les finally gets the message. I
don't see any changes on the staff unless someone chooses to leave. I
really think Les will be done after next season.
OK gone are the days when
you are applauded for your merit just because of the people living now
who doesn't let the skillful people get that far. Because of this social
pattern going around society now that has been going on for years. When
and where some LSU fans are getting castigated because other LSU fans are
pointing out that Head Football Coach Les Miles is not doing his job to beat
Alabama, Arkansas, and Ole Miss.
So now we have a bunch of Looney Tune college students who are now getting used by these fanatical minded liberal college Ivy League professors, following their ideologue icon like President Barack Obama for their own self-serving political reasons.
And to think that all I wanted from Les Miles is another first down to beat Alabama with, and I do not want to hear about how much of a liberal humanitarian Miles is at all. Because I am buying a LSU Football ticket to sit in LSU Tiger Stadium to see LSU play football.
Wow! Has the LSU Hallowed Ground campus become a place besides the Mississippi River where stupid people scratch each other backs for peanuts? Hey I want a job like that too, making $4 million dollars to talk incoherent, and eating a blade of grass for the show sake. When and where losing to Alabama, Arkansas, and Ole Miss because of my coaching deficiencies are simply OK, right.
So now we have a bunch of Looney Tune college students who are now getting used by these fanatical minded liberal college Ivy League professors, following their ideologue icon like President Barack Obama for their own self-serving political reasons.
And to think that all I wanted from Les Miles is another first down to beat Alabama with, and I do not want to hear about how much of a liberal humanitarian Miles is at all. Because I am buying a LSU Football ticket to sit in LSU Tiger Stadium to see LSU play football.
Wow! Has the LSU Hallowed Ground campus become a place besides the Mississippi River where stupid people scratch each other backs for peanuts? Hey I want a job like that too, making $4 million dollars to talk incoherent, and eating a blade of grass for the show sake. When and where losing to Alabama, Arkansas, and Ole Miss because of my coaching deficiencies are simply OK, right.
LSU
will be right back here next year. I hope Alleva and the high-rolling
jerks have a plan for after Bama dismantles LSU and crushes Fournette's
Heisman hopes again, this time in Tiger Stadium, on November 5, 2016.
@Teradact
Why do most of you on here think the boosters are jerks? They were
willing to shell out 17 million dollars out of their own pockets to make
LSU football better. I don't care who you are, that's a lot of money.
I think they should be commended, not ridiculed. It's nice knowing
that there's that kind of support for LSU football. Most universities
do not have that kind of monetary support from the school's boosters.
@utahsaint @Teradact
If they have that kind of money to spend on entertainment, which is
what football is, then money is no object to them, and that's not
necessarily an admirable quality. In fact, it usually indicates
arrogance and boorishness.
@Teradact @utahsaint
Oh, so they're bad people because they're rich. I think I get it. If
that's the reason they're being badmouthed, then I'm going to go with
Jealousy as the reason why so many on here are upset at them.
@utahsaint @Teradact
They're not bad if they're rich, only if they're arrogant and boorish.
If you know people with that kind of money, though, you realize that
most of them are arrogant and boorish.
@utahsaint @Teradact
And by most accounts, it was the arrogant and boorish faction in the
Tiger Athletic Foundation that fouled up this whole ordeal.
@utahsaint @Teradact
That's a lot of money just to get rid of someone. The boosters aren't
jerks but this thing was handled badly. They shouldn't have leaked
anything unless they had the Miles replacement locked up. They had no
Plan B. Well, actually, plan B is what they ended up with. They didn't
see it.
@Teradact
Bingo! This was stupid, LSU should have gone anead and fired Miles and
started the restart now. I give less than even odds that Les is back
after 2016. He would almost have to win the NC to return in 2017.
Referring to their game time meeting "“It
was a combination of factors and a decision that we made collectively,”
Alexander says. “We weighed all the factors in all this and it was a
joint decision between many of our board members, our AD and many of us decided this was the wrong time and wrong place (to replace Miles.)”
I wonder how long it took them to come up with that statement? Proof positive that they are the ones that are over-paid for their lack of class and decision making abilities.
I wonder how long it took them to come up with that statement? Proof positive that they are the ones that are over-paid for their lack of class and decision making abilities.
@NSCitizen
That's simply a CYA statement meant to satisfy the masses. The real
reason is they couldnt get Jimbo Fisher locked up. LSU got played by the
agent. This is how it's done and hopefully for LSU's sake it learned
something.
@Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune @NSCitizen
I'm sure that's entirely accurate, but one of the best rules of
negotiating is to never leave the table with egg on your face or to
appear desperate.
@NSCitizen @Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
I'm guessing that all the big time coaches have agents these days...and
wondering if anyone knows who is representing who? This agent seems to
have his hand in several pots and what if he is/was representing both
Coach Miles and Fisher...? This whole thing with agents seems to be
like handling a ball of rattlesnakes.
@NSCitizen @Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
As one expert told me, the boosters may be good businessmen, but the
business of hiring coaches is different. LSU was out of its depth on
this one, I feel.
@Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune @NSCitizen
Yep - Alexander is full of manure. He shut down a privately funded
nutrition center because of perception. It would look bad while he was
threatening bankruptcy.
This guy needs to be put back on the 1st plane to California and send Alleva back to Duke.
This guy needs to be put back on the 1st plane to California and send Alleva back to Duke.
@FutureTrends @Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune @NSCitizen
No, actually, all they did was delay the groundbreaking. The thing is
going up fast right now. The groundbreaking was set for the same time
all the bad news about the budget came out. LSU is going to have it's
nutrition center.
@Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune @NSCitizen
Hi Jim, could you elaborate on the agent for me. Like whose agent
(guessing Jimbo's)? Did Jimbo get an new bigger contract from FSU out
of all of this? Was the agent playing LSU against FSU for who would
give Jimbo the biggest contract? Or was it something besides money?
etc.
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@utahsaint Fisher already signed a contract extension with FSU at the end of last season.
"Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher will earn $5 million for the 2015 season and could earn at least $44 million for the life of his new contract extension (thru 2022)."
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/fsu/football/2015/01/28/jimbo-fishers-set-make-million-season-million/22482657/
"Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher will earn $5 million for the 2015 season and could earn at least $44 million for the life of his new contract extension (thru 2022)."
http://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/fsu/football/2015/01/28/jimbo-fishers-set-make-million-season-million/22482657/
@utahsaint @Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune @NSCitizen
His agent is Jimmy Sexton, same as Saban and Spurrier et al. Jimbo just
got an extension a year ago, i doubt he's getting another one. An
agent's job is to get the best deal for his client. He's not going to do
LSU ANY favors. He could see LSU was bargaining against itself and that
gave him leverage. LSU had no Plan B. That's why they look like chumps
now.
@Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune @utahsaint @NSCitizen Pretty sure that their classless actions also played a part in their looing thing a chump.
@Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Well said Jim. This backfired on LSU and Aleva should be the scapegoat.
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