Les Miles Contacted Manny Diaz About LSU's DC Opening This Past Offseason

By Staff Reporter•Sep 10, 20151:09 pm•Discuss the story8
LSU head coach Les Miles said Wednesday that he contacted current Mississippi defensive coordinator Many Diaz in the offseason when he was looking for a replacement for John Chavis who departed for Texas A&M.

Diaz was hired by Mississippi State to be the team's new DC on January 5 and LSU ultimately hired new coordinator Kevin Steele on January on 13.

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tigerman03•132 months
I talk to a lot of people about a lot of stuff.
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Nix to Twillie•132 months
Manny Diaz was fired mid season by Mack Brown at Texas, in large part due to an embarassing showing against BYU. Get Harris outside the pocket and let him run...we'll be good.
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supatigah•132 months
Probably spend an hour listing all of the people they contacted about the DC job

So?
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RightHook•132 months
wow. i'm not so disappointed in the steele hire now.
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summersausage•132 months
Go figure. He was "capable"
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themunch•132 months
He was not hired
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pellietigersaint•132 months
And????
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JawjaTigah•132 months
Isn't this old news? How does reporting this help LSU and Coach Steele today?
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