LSU President Confirms Report About Les Miles Decision

so basically you want him gone, but don't want to spend. ok, that's fine, we get it. but why publicly admit (in so many words) that the AD and university doesn't support its coach.

frickin' morons

I am glad he admitted this because Alleva was taking the heat when it should have been this guy...

Nothing like 2 weeks of public trashing by your boss's office, followed up by admission from school president that the only reason you are still employed is that the University was afraid of the public outcry for spending so much money to fire you.....Les' enthusiasm for his job must be through the roof now. What a f'king moron we have running the show..

Did they not consider the buyout and its ramifications BEFORE leaking that they wanted to make a change????

King Alexander should have been fired at LSU after he played the scare tactic card and mentioned suspending LSU football due budget cuts. Maybe now ppl will start to see that the guy is a cancer and needs to GTFO.

Wait, what? Weren't a bunch of LSU fat cats going to cash-up and donate that amount to the TAF and the TAF would do the deal? And wasn't future earnings of Miles deducted from the buyout amount - and could have conceivably brought the buyout to $0.00?? Thank God Alexander doesn't teach mathematics.

All these clowns should be fired. They put a serious stain on the university. First of all how do these guys who collectively make millions of dollars allow this to happen. All of this should have been taken into consideration two weeks ago. How do you now foresee media backlash and fan support happening when the rumors first get cranked up. Even people on here could see that coming from a mile away.

f king idiot. If this was true, keep your mouth shut........

Gotta protect that money that doesn't even belong to LSU... to save face on unrelated LSU budget issues. Politics...

This was entirely political. The buyout would've been funded by private donations. Alexander is a through and through academic white tower liberal. Facts don't matter to him so long as the narrative prevails

Anyone want to volunteer to go on a hunger strike so that we can get him to resign?

F'King Alexander needs to be fired ASAP

Lsu as I understand it wasn't paying for it. Dude is a dick. He's only worried about he may appear while trying to play poor folk to the legislator.

So we drug the LSU brand through the mud but kept the status quo over something we have known for the last 3 years? Are the people running LSU just sadistic?

Fire the F King President!

I'm sorry, but this makes no sense. Absolutely none. Does this mean that a deal was never offered to Fisher? Because if a deal was on the table to Fisher, then an evaluation of the buyout would have been made well before hand. Contemplating the buyout would have been a integral part of the process of ever making an offer to Fisher or considering letting Miles walk, LSU was well past that. Contemplating the effects of a buyout after you've made an offer to Fisher and intimated to Les that he would no longer coach at LSU is utterly asinine, and if at all true makes LSU look more ridiculous than they already do. The entire ordeal paints LSU as an administation devoid of strong leadership. It's an embarrassment on all fronts.

Alexander needs to grow a pair of Lesticles

F'King Alexander has now embarrassed the university and state twice at the national level. He needs to go. Now.

So why have TAF then?

LSU is killing their ability to recruit and the ability to hire new coordinators. We may do well next year but after that we are going to drop like a sack of bricks.