🏈 Report: Arkansas Offers Les Miles 5-Year Deal

[PhillyGirl]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1424618-arkansas-reportedly-makes-5-year-offer-to-lsu-coach-les-miles

$27.5 million .. damn.

 

[bamaraider]

Oh please leave to Arkansas Les, infuriate the LSU nation

 

[planomateo]

This one has nothing on the "partial ownership in the Cleveland Browns"...

 

[TerryP]

There's an article on Nola.com about this.

I first saw it last night from our friend as SportsbyBrooks...a tweet he sent out that Cecil RT'd.

I don't know if the tweet or the article on Nola.com came out first.

I didn't pay any more attention to it last night. Cecil said he was retweeting the tweet by Brooks amused at the troll.

Now, I think I'll go back to ignoring it again.

 

[TerryP]

OK, I'm delaying getting some work done on the house so I decided to look a little...Brooks early afternoon.

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Exclusive: SbB has learned Arkansas is engaged w/ reps of the interests of Les Miles & a $5-yr $27.5M offer is on the table

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LSU Coach Les Miles has a 'serious offer' from Arkansas, source says

By Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on November 27, 2012 at 8:05 PM, updated November 28, 2012 at 7:32 AM

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LSU Coach Les Miles has an offer from Arkansas for the head football coaching job, a source close to LSU confirmed to the Times-Picayune/NOLA.com Tuesday. The offer is reportedly for five years and $27.5 million.
"They made a serious offer," the source said "(Athletic Director) Joe (Alleva) is meeting with his (Miles') agent and the discussion is ongoing."
Miles, 59, is set to meet with the media at a previously scheduled 2 p.m. press conference Wednesday to discuss the Arkansas game and the Tigers' bowl possibilities.

LSU sports information director Michael Bonnette declined to comment and said Miles, was out of town recruiting. His LSU team defeated Arkansas 20-13 in the regular season finale Friday.
LSU Coach Les Miles reportedly has an offer to coach at Arkansas. Eliot Kamenitz / The Times-Picayune

Another source familiar with the Arkansas coaching search said the original report, which came from a twitter post from the Sports by Brooks website, was "speculation based on Miles and Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long having spent eight years together at Michigan."

Long worked in various capacities in the University of Michigan athletic department during Miles' eight-year tenure there.

"We've seen the tweet by Sports by Brooks and we're not going to comment on rumors or bits of information," Bonnette said. "It has been brought to Les' attention and he didn't have anything to say."
Miles' agent, George Bass of Dallas, could not be reached for comment. Tom Murphy of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette tweeted that he spoke to Bass by phone and Bass said, "There's nothing like that going on."
Miles is at the end of his eighth season at LSU and is the school's second-winningest coach with an 85-20 record, including a 10-2 mark thus far. His current LSU contract calls for $3.751 million plus postseason and academic incentives and was last increased in August of 2011.
Here is some background and connective tissue between Miles and Arkansas and why there may be mutual interest:

• Long began his administrative career at Michigan after he was hired by Bo Schembechler, the man who recruited Miles to play for the Wolverines in the 1970s. Long was on the UM staff after Miles returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach from 1987-94.
• One of the Razorbacks' most influential and wealthy alumni is Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who played on Arkansas' 1964 national championship team. Miles was a Cowboys assistant coach from 1998-2000 and he developed a strong bond with the owner.

Strong enough, in fact, that when Miles' father died, Jones offered to send the assistant coach home to Ohio in the owner's private jet. Miles' name came up when Dallas was in the market for a coach in 2003, 2007 and 2010.
One source close to the LSU athletic department said Jones is a major reason the salary has ballooned to the $5.5 million range.

• Bass is also the agent for TCU Coach Gary Patterson, who was thought to have emerged as the leading candidate for the Arkansas job. When Patterson made it clear he was staying in Fort Worth, the attention switched to Miles through Bass, a source said.

 

[bamascw]

Why would Les want to go to Arkansas? :icon_scratch:

 

[TerryP]

Why would Les want to go to Arkansas? :icon_scratch:

Why do message that are clear "trolls" work?

Same way rumors do. People repeat them.

Arkansas denies contact. LSU administration say Arkansas initiated it.

While it is Kiffinesque, I wonder if they look at it as a way to keep the LSU brand in the national media conversations. :icon_scratch:

 

[bamascw]

I saw it on the ESPN ticker this morning during Mike & Mike, that's pretty much why I mostly believed it was a legit offer. Surely they didn't just quote some goofball's twitter account. But then again......

 

[Southern Bama]

$27.5 Million..........His pressers are worth every penny :biggrin_blue:

 

[ElephantStomp]

I saw it on the ESPN ticker this morning during Mike & Mike, that's pretty much why I mostly believed it was a legit offer. Surely they didn't just quote some goofball's twitter account. But then again......

ESPN said they had a source within both LSU and Arkansas saying contact was made, but an actual contract offer wasnt made just a reaching out to his people and a base point for salary

 

[planomateo]

Something about Jerry Jones being involved in this doesn't sit right with me. I'm sure he has the deepest pockets of the Arkansas folks, but I'll be damned if I would want a guy who can't fix the Cowboy's meddling with the Razorbacks.

 

[PhillyGirl]

So .. do we know if this offer was legit, or not? If not, sorry for posting it!!

 

[TerryP]

So .. do we know if this offer was legit, or not? If not, sorry for posting it!!

I have my doubts we'll ever know for sure unless he ends up in Fayetteville.

SportsbyBrooks has trolled a lot in his time. He has no credibility. Did he stumble across a breaking story and beat every other outlet on reporting the gist of it? Everyone, at sometime, has the ability to get one right.

I have my doubts and they aren't small.

Don't apologize for posting this...it's news right now and conversations all over the 'net are centered on it. It's a coaching story/hiring rumor...it's part of what makes this time of the year fun.

planomateo mentioned the story about Gruden being offered part of the Browns as a portion of the contract with UT. That's so far from even being real it's hilarious. But definitely not a waste of server space!!!

 

[planomateo]

The Les Miles story could be legit - its not like LSU didn't offer a softball coach last year for a equal move - to think they almost got him too - and Bama got him back and won it all. What I find ironic with the whole Les Miles idea, is that some of the LSU fans that wanted him gone time and time again are the same ones pissed right now. FANatics are lunatics sometimes.

planomateo mentioned the story about Gruden being offered part of the Browns as a portion of the contract with UT. That's so far from even being real it's hilarious. But definitely not a waste of server space!!!

You mean its not true...crap. I can't understand how people would even believe this kinda stuff - partial ownership of the Browns.

 

[Houndstoothpuller]

IIRC, Miles makes less than CNS per year, couldn't this be Miles' and his agent's way of upping his contract even in light of not winning NC this year? Or last year (did win SEC)? OR year before that or the year before...

Contact ARk, start a rumor, have LSU counter offer to keep him....?>
Lady I know that's a big LSU fan from down there says she can hardly find an LSU fan that likes him being their coach anymore. :icon_scratch:

 

[XXL TideFan]

Miles has about two years left to bring the corndogs some hardware. Getting kicked in the junk in last years NCG started the flame on his gumbo butt. With every loss to Saban or even with every accolade that Saban garners the flame gets hotter. If he has a bowl loss and Bama wins the NC ditto. If he loses to Bama in Ttown next year the corndogs will be apoplectic.

 

[rammerjammer]

I was down in Louisiana for 2 weeks leading up to the Bama/LSU game and couldn't find anyone that liked Les Miles. A bunch were LSU grads and they a thought he was an idiot.

 

[Southern Bama]

85 wins with 20 losses since 2005. 5-2 in Bowl games with one NC win and another NC appearance. There are ALOT of teams and fanbases that dream of those numbers. That being said....I think hes crazy as a loon but he recruits well and his teams win.

 

[TerryP]

IIRC, Miles makes less than CNS per year, couldn't this be Miles' and his agent's way of upping his contract even in light of not winning NC this year? Or last year (did win SEC)? OR year before that or the year before...

Contact ARk, start a rumor, have LSU counter offer to keep him....?>
Lady I know that's a big LSU fan from down there says she can hardly find an LSU fan that likes him being their coach anymore. :icon_scratch:

I could only speculate on whether it's a ploy but you have touched on one thing about Miles that is true.

If LSU would have won the BCSNC in January it would have meant he would have received about six million more on the term of his contract as it stands today.

I may have my numbers off a little here, but I know I'm pretty damn close.

He's paid 3.75 mill for last year. Add an additional 200k for both the SECCG win and the appearance in the BCS.

Now, with a win that 3.75 would have been bumped $1000 over the highest paid coach in the SEC. Last year that was Saban, and I believe it was 4.75MM.

As of today, Les has five years left on his current contract. So, doing the math a win last year would have put close to 6MM more in his pocket over the remainder of his contract.

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