re: Anyone believe Miles is coming back next season?

I have read 3 or 4 of your posts the past few days and I have come to realize a few things

#1 You don't like Les Miles

#2 You don't care for anyone that does like Les Miles.

#3 You think very highly of yourself. Like you're sitting at your computer thinking "I'm better than all of them"

Me, I'm 100% certain he will be back next year.

I'll miss the guy, but it's time.

I will be unabashedly excited if Miles is replaced. In short, I think it's the only way we'll contend for championships again, even though I also recognize that it increases the risk of a losing season. I assure you, though,if Miles is retained, I'll still trundle into Lambeau next year in my purple and gold. I've loved lsu since I was a seventeen year old freshman.

As for the other, I harbor no personal animus towards any other posters. We're all fans of the same team. And I definitely don't think I'm better than anyone.

If this thing stretches into next week with no announcements, then the guys we pursued aren't coming, and Alleva will start hedging in preparation for a Miles return. His firing hasn't happened yet, and Miles isn't walking on his own, so this is still a possibility.

One potential scenario if Miles stays, since Alleva has already hurt His standing with rumors and public silence, is that Alleva is going to force a change on offense. With Miles looking like a lame duck, he doesn't have any real leverage if he returns. He's already publicly stated that he won't retire or walk. His fate is in Alleva's hands now, and Cameron is an obvious scapegoat with his contract already up.

Alleva could use his leverage to force Miles' hand on hiring a guy with a different offensive philosophy, and making him turn over full control, or he goes ahead and fires him. It's a game of chicken, to be sure, but it's the only way that things are going to change on the offensive end with Miles still here.

We've seen instances where supposedly lame duck coaches have fought back from the brink (how many times has Richt alone pulled this off). If such a scenario worked out, Alleva gets out of a jam and improves the on-field product without having to pay a big buyout. Recruiting stabilizes when kids and their coaches see that Miles isn't getting fired and that things are looking up.

If it fails, Alleva goes ahead and pulls the trigger before the end of the season. Then, they get the head start looking for a guy that they didn't have this year. Recruiting would take a big hit, and this kind of move would put Alleva on the hot seat, but if he did make a big hire, he could get himself out of that jam.

Just a wild theory, but again, it's just about the only way to force a change in offensive philosophy with Miles still here.

just think it's to late for all that. If they didn't already have a coach pretty much already in place they wouldn't have let it play out like this.

This is all true. However, Miles succeeded by taking what the previous staff built up, and taking it further and sustaining already established success. The next staff has an even better opportunity now, with a bigger stadium and better facilities. Like with Miles, who proved to be a solid hire at the time, the right guy is set up to do as well or better.

Les is gone Skippy!

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They cut his legs out from under him if there would have been any hope at all for resurrecting the program.

Would be the stupidest people in the world for letting all this linger all this time and then not fire him

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Sadly, this would not surprise me if it happened.

What's more, in a semi-related sort of way, Miles seems to be pretty well respected in the coaching community. He does have a lot of ties in both college and the pros. With the amount of hate being directed at him by the fanbase, and the giddiness on places such as these over his apparent firing, it also wouldn't shock me if a bunch of coaches look and say "frick that place".