They’re all chasing LSU’s Les Miles out of Red Stick

Joe Schad is reporting on ESPN that LSU boosters want to buy out the contract of Les Miles.

If that’s the case, Miles would join a long history of inexplicable firings of LSU football coaches.

I call it The Paul Dietzel Effect. Dietzel coached LSU’s 11-0 national title team in 1958, then left to coach at Army after the 1961 season.

Tiger Nation was livid, and they have always taken it out on the coaches since the Dietzel era. Any coach who hits a rough patch, they are ready to get rid of him.

Miles’ rough patch happens to be three losses in a row, all of them to rivals in the SEC. After a 7-0 start, the Tigers have fallen to Alabama 30-16, Arkansas 31-14 and Ole Miss 38-17. This riles up the boosters who can afford to buy out his contract.

They want to fire a coach who has a 110-32 record at LSU and they want to bring in Chip Kelly.

Written by Billy Joe Jessup

Billy Joe Jessup, 66, is a Mississippi good old boy who saw himself as the Southern Richard Meltzer back in 1974 and 1975. Jessup wrote two satiric sports articles for the rock music magazine Zoo World when he was in his early 20s, but ZW rejected his third article, killing his confidence so much that he battled writer's block for more than four decades until his Guy Hut breakthrough in March 2018.