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Kansas University officially announced the hiring of Les Miles as the schools new head coach.
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Miles will receive a five-year contract that will pay him $2,775,000 annually, with additional retention bonuses due in Nov. 2020 and Nov. 2022.

"Since the beginning of our search, we focused on identifying and recruiting an experienced head coach with a strong track record of success on and off the field," Long said. "Les Miles is exactly what we need for our program right now. His national reputation as a great recruiter and as a coach who student-athletes love playing for will enable us to break the cycle and return a winning tradition to the Kansas Jayhawks. We are thrilled to have Les and his family as Jayhawks."

"I am humbled by the opportunity to lead the KU football program and I am grateful to Chancellor Girod and Jeff Long for the opportunity," said Miles. "We will bring Jayhawk Football back and we will do it with outstanding coaches, tremendous student-athletes of character and ability and an unrelenting drive for excellence. My family and I cannot wait to be a part of the KU family!"
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Sid in Lakeshore66 months
Good for Him. Good luck coach. Congrats on an excellent hire Jeff Long. Kansas will be trending in the right direction very soon.
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RabidTiger66 months
Ole Leslie getting PAID!
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earl keese66 months
Good luck Les. Kick some Big 12 arse.
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DVinBR66 months
dont forget to clock it les
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Champagne66 months
Good luck, Coach Miles! We'll always love you here at LSU. I know that you and your family will have a damn strong Thanksgiving !
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Dflynn968766 months
I was always a fan of led, for the most part...but Kansas get ready for bad clock management lol
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Dflynn968766 months
Les**
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UFMatt66 months
Wishing him good luck at Kansas!
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BayouBengal9966 months
If it's bowl games Kanasa wants Les is the perfect person for that. He will be in a bowl game 9-10 years he's there and likely win most of them. He will get the best of the rest from Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma then pull the best out of Kansas. Kansas State HC will retire bc of Les Miles. He may even get a few 5 stars to go there from Texas and Oklahoma. He will most certainly fill it with very good 3 star athletes and I also think he will break his power football trend and finally do things the modern way. Only reason he didn't do it at LSU is because he didn't feel the need with all those power backs he could get every year and twice a year in most cases. He was spoiled here at LSU with those big OL man and big RBs. He'll find an under the radar QB and have Kansas winning in no time. He's still a winning coach and that's won't change. He's just not a championship coach. He'll win lots of games though. I'm pulling for you Les Miles!!
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Placebeaux66 months
Destiny. Les was either going to Kansas or Rkansas.
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ChineseBandit5866 months
Glad he's not at Rkansas - would hate to have to hope he loses. With Kansas, I can pull for him to win every game - GO CLM.
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Storm Warning66 months
The press conference was embarrassing. Les paused a great deal, forgot questions, rambled. I felt sorry for him, despite his salary.
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TigerSpray66 months
High blood pressure, heart attacks and clock mismanagement coming to Kansas, ha ha ha.
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tigerMike66 months
Frank having a rough year at UTSA. He goes with Les the be OC and recruit. Then he takes it over in 3-4 years. My just-for-fun prediction.
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Zeek66 months
I wanted Les Miles to leave LSU, but I very much like the person that he is, congrats Les Miles. And I wish you nothing but success.
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Bass Tiger66 months
I guess if Miles does a Charlie Weis on their redlegged azzes I could get on board the Jayturd/Miles train.
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Vernonbrew2266 months
Les is a class act. No mistaking that but this seems like a chance to go out on the losing end. I think in just the few years Miles has been out of coaching, the game has passed him by even more. Wish him luck but pretty sure the Hayhawks will always suck hay.
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atltiger648766 months
agreed, I'm not seeing this as a positive for Les. Kansas is a terrible job and he'll have to bring in tons of players from out-of-state. Gonna be tough to win there, and a tough way to end a coaching career. Also, this is telling that Les had to stoop all the way down to Kansas to get another job.
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Bige1166 months
As someone who is from North Carolina, and having parents that went to UNC, I can tell you Kansas only cares about one thing and it ain’t football. That’s the biggest problem ole less will have.
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rob6266 months
So you are from North Carolina and your parents went to UNC. What part of any of that makes you an official regarding Kansas?
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JumpingTheShark66 months
@rob62 - he is saying that coming from someone who is relatively close to a basketball school (UNC) and has a history of playing Kansas, that Kansas was and always will be entirely basketball driven.
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foshizzle66 months
Talent is everything and he'll recruit decently but Kansas just isn't positioned well as a program. CLM will do right by them and position them for his understudy.
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teatiger66 months
Just bought me a Jayhawk hat....have a new #2 team. Geaux Jayhawks!!
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Cajunboy4666 months
Lmao can't wait to watch this shite show lol.
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BogeyGolf66 months
douche bag
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JHE_1166 months
The threads here will be marvelous any week that Kansas scores more than LSU. Who they play will not matter
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CHEDBALLZ66 months
Happy for ole Lester, hope he does well.
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