Nobody with any sense would mess with what got them what they have. The media didn't get played. Les was most likely going to get fired if he didn't win this game. Listening to less' presser one can see he is being just genial enough in his comments but there is still an underlying verbal sparring going on. I would like to see them get contacted by programs fishing for an hc and him negotiate a punitive contract with lsu. It would serve them right to pony up more dough because they did not handle this situation with better sensitivity. They were downright stupid!
On the surface it looks like they were stupid. Can Miles negotiate a bigger buyout? I seriously doubt it. I think they realized a $15 million buyout is stupid. They will bide their time until a better opportunity.
As much as I thought firing him was stupid, discussion has been about how stubborn he can be about the offense. During his entire tenure the offense has struggled at times. Turning up the heat like this might just motivate him to fix it finally. Or not.
If he leaves he gives up a $15 million buyout. That would be hard for anyone to do IMO. It does drop to $11 million next year, and one can only assume it drops $4 million per year. As time goes by, it will become easier to fire him and/or for him to leave.
And honestly, he has kept the program at a high level but he inherited a first rate program from Saban. All he did was keep it going. He won the MNC in 2007, but LSU is the only 2-loss program in history to do that and they struggled to beat us in the SECC. He blew a chance to win it in 2011 with one of the worst coaching jobs I've ever seen. Hello? Miles? Where is your backup quarterback? Holy shizzle.
Again, I am on record as saying firing him makes absolutely no sense, given both his record and his buyout. Bluffing at doing so to put pressure on him does.