Report: Former LSU coach Les Miles still seeking coaching opportunity
Former LSU head coach Les Miles recently spoke at a coaching clinic in Lincoln, Neb. — where his son plays for the Cornhuskers — and left no questions about his desire to coach again. According to Rich Kaipust of the World-Herald, Miles’ goal continues to revolve around coaching college football.
“I want to coach football,” Miles said. “That’s pretty simple. I want an opportunity at a place that can win and a place where they really want to invest in the players. If they do that, I’m good.”
Speculation raged following Miles’ dismissal from LSU and his subsequent inability to land a job this past offseason, but according to Miles, the pickiness was on his part.
“It can be a different style of job,” said Miles, “but then I’m going to be picky about the people that I work with and those things. All I need is an athletic director and a president that says, ‘Yeah, I want to be the best.’”
As for Miles’ past stop with the Tigers, the understood reason for his firing was an inability to adapt on offense. LSU’s passing attack ranked 116th and 106th nationally in his final two years before a 2016 season that opened with similar offensive struggles. Miles said at the clinic that he has learned from his mistakes and his entire body of work will be helpful to whichever school potentially decides to hire him.
“I’m probably a better coach today than I was when I left LSU, and I was certainly a better coach in my last years at LSU than I was in my first years,” Miles said.
Here’s hoping that Miles is eating grass on another college football field sometime soon, if only for his famous one-liners.