re: Leslie Edwin Miles is picking up NFL steam per cbs

Could be the next Tom Coughlin though.
I don't see Miles going to the NFL

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I think it's only a matter of time before Miles is gone to the pros.

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lulz just no.

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Dear God, NO! Les needs to nip this in the bud quick. All he needs to do is look at $$$$$'s and Spurrier's stints in the NFL to realize that LSU is where he needs to be.

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Yeah he should call a press conference and say I AM NOT GOING TO THE NFL

Its worked out for us be fore right?

Les isn't going anywhere. I really wish these media idiots would stop with the Les to wherever stories.

Hire CJG!!!

More from another article on why Miles could succeed in the NFL - SIAP

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He coaches to win. Sounds simple, right? But truckloads of coaches base their in-game decisions on not losing rather than winning, and the end result is that their record in close games hews to the .500 mark you'd expect when allowing luck to be the deciding factor. Not Miles: whether it's throwing the famous last-second bomb to beat Auburn in 2007, calling the last-minute fake field goal that helped down Florida in 2010, or a dozen other examples, Miles is committed to calls that give his team a chance to win, not just a shot at avoiding a loss.

The proof is in the pudding of his record in close games: 22-9 in his six seasons in games decided by a touchdown or less. In a league by nature even more conservative than the college game, Miles's go-for-broke approach could pay even bigger dividends.

He surrounds himself with the right coaches. Not every move Miles has made on his staff has been gold; after defensive coordinator Bo Pelini left to become Nebraska's head coach following the 2007 national championship. Miles promoted Doug Mallory and Bradley Dale Peveto as co-coordinators to fill that spot ... and promptly watched the Tiger defense take a massive step backwards in a disappointing 8-5 2008 season.

But Miles didn't wait around to see if Mallory and Peveto could get it together. He promptly went out and hired respected ex-Tennessee coordinator John Chavis, and the LSU defense has never looked back. Even many of Miles's less popular hires have paid dividends--look no further than Steve Kragthorpe, the widely reviled former Louisville head coach brought on as offensive coordinator this offseason to general disdain. But it's Kragthorpe having the last laugh: former pick-six machine Jarrett Lee is playing the best quarterback of his life and the Tigers have been ruthless in the red zone.

Assuming Miles learned the pro game well enough from his two-year stint with the Dallas Cowboys to have an idea of who he'd want on his NFL staff, that same eye for coaching talent should serve him well.

His special teams are dynamite. For years, LSU has boasted some of the best-coached, most consistent and most explosive special teams units in the SEC. Much of that success has been chalked up to the Tigers' string of top-notch return men: Trindon Holliday, Chad Jones, Patrick Peterson. But after watching Morris Claiborne emphatically end West Virginia's second-half rally with a kickoff return for touchdown last Saturday (and Tyrann Mathieu do much the same to Oregon with his forced fumble and reutnr-for-touchdown on punt coverage), it's time to acknowledge that LSU's special teams success runs deeper than just the guys asked to field the ball.

He connects with his players. It's not worth belaboring the point already made by Freeman in his report, but no one has ever accused Miles's teams of not playing their hardest for him, nor Miles himself of being unable to reach recruits or manage his star players. Motivating and focusing college kids is a very different task than doing the same for seasoned professionals, but Miles's homespun charisma and willingness to trust his players to win games (see the first item on this list) should go a long way towards helping him make the adjustment.

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I put the likelihood of Miles going pro very low, he is made for college. However, it is incumbent on Miles if this ever gets serious, not just the blatherings of a 3rd rate reporter, to shoot it down very forcefully. Saban was not the coach he could have been at LSU because he let the pro thing hang in the air, costing us important recruits, i.e. Oher.

For all you Sabanistas, his insincerity and lack of commitment shows a coach we should have been glad to get rid of. The 2 best days in recent LSU history was the day Saban was hired and the day he left.

I think Mile's character is made of sterner stuff than the slime of Saban. We may see if that is true.

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Saban was not the coach he could have been at LSU because he let the pro thing hang in the air, costing us important recruits, i.e. Oher.

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Agreed. 2004 was a major disappointment. And the Iowa bowl loss one of the worst LSU games I have ever attended.

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Can't blame them. But I think they're fighting the inevitable. I think it's only a matter of time before Miles is gone to the pros.

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Paging Visor Boy and Satan.

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He's not leaving.

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Agreed. He had 2 chances to go to his Alma Mater and declined.

He's had time in the NFL. I heard him on the radio last week saying "It was interesting being in the NFL but college football is where I belong."