Miles to Kansas?

[GoldRusher]

Don't believe it. No sane person gives up 5 million to coach Kansas. That would be the absolute worst decision in the history of man kind:

You sayin Les is like... Mad? As in Mad Hatter kind of mad?

 

[Wild Turkey]

You sayin Les is like... Mad? As in Mad Hatter kind of mad?

Like pawing at dirt and eating grass mad.

 

[Deep Creek]

They really should look at Ken Nailapuaotlololol from Navy. They're never going to get the spread recruits needed to compete in Big 12 country, but that sort of offense could work there since none of the Big 12 teams face that sort of offense ever really.

Only P5 conference that does face that sort of offense is the ACC...and they only see it once a year.

 

[GoldRusher]

KU is not asking Les to win the conference, just make the program respectable, raise money and get bowl eligible at this point and he can do that.
As mentioned, think KU is positioning itself for the future (meaning more realignment) Their goal is like 100mm stadium reno IIRC.

As far as his age, that is totally irrelevant, Herm out at ASU is currently making people who said that he was too old look like idiots and I'm 100% sure that if KState could invent a time machine that they would sign a 60 year old Snyder long term in the morning if they could.

 

[jwolt92]

Only school in the country with a national championship winning football and basketball coach is.. Kansas...

 

[7Samurai13]

Just how fucked up is Tennessee that Les Miles turned them down so that he could take the Kansas job?

 

[theboardref]

KU is not asking Les to win the conference, just make the program respectable, raise money and get bowl eligible at this point and he can do that.
As mentioned, think KU is positioning itself for the future (meaning more realignment) Their goal is like 100mm stadium reno IIRC.

As far as his age, that is totally irrelevant, Herm out at ASU is currently making people who said that he was too old look like idiots and I'm 100% sure that if KState could invent a time machine that they would sign a 60 year old Snyder long term in the morning if they could.

Miles has never built a program, he has only sustained sucess. He wasn’t that great at Oklahoma State.

 

[tnapucco]

spoken like a man quite confident that he has most of the opposing teams' signals pegged

 

[it'sHuskers4me]

Miles gonna coach at KU for $50,000 like Bo Pelini did at YSU- only 3 more monthly checks to Pelini and Nebraska is done BTW. Riley and Eichorst are now paid in full

 

[Wild Turkey]

Miles gonna coach at KU for $50,000 like Bo Pelini did at YSU- only 3 more monthly checks to Pelini and Nebraska is done BTW. Riley and Eichorst are now paid in full

Maybe you can afford to buy some players now.

 

[TheReal_NU]

Maybe you can afford to buy some players now.

I support this statement

 

[corn train]

Dude will most certainly bring some awareness to the Kansas football club

 

[it'sHuskers4me]

Maybe you can afford to buy some players now.

Auburn mastered that long ago, cAm I right?

 

[tnapucco]

Maybe you can afford to buy some players now.

Steroids at least.

I've always said when they quit juicing, they quit competing.

"corn fed" = steroids

 

[ralphiewvu]

I still can’t fathom how this is going to be a good hire. But to each their own.

 

[MarkOU]

Just how fucked up is Tennessee that Les Miles turned them down so that he could take the Kansas job?

Expectation. Tennessee wants a coach to come in, stomp a mud hole in bama, whip Florida's ass, win the east, win the sec and bring home the natty, in less than 3 years.

Kansas just wants to win 6 games, eventually.

I'd say he turned them down and took kansas because of expectations.

 

[MarkOU]

I still can’t fathom how this is going to be a good hire. But to each their own.

He got kids to come play at stoolwater and had three straight winning seasons going to bowls. When he took them over they were pathetic. He has recruiting ties in Texas and Louisiana and if he can flip players from schools like Houston, LA directionals and maybe pluck a star out of nearby st Louis and kansas city he can build a respectable team. It's a good hire for kansas.

 

[bocomo007]

Expectation. Tennessee wants a coach to come in, stomp a mud hole in bama, whip Florida's ass, win the east, win the sec and bring home the natty, in less than 3 years.

Kansas just wants to win 6 games, eventually.

I'd say he turned them down and took kansas because of expectations.

and that right there says a lot about Miles as a coach

 

[MarkOU]

and that right there says a lot about Miles as a coach

Sure but hes in his 60s and prolly doesn't want the pressure. He had it once and reached that peak. The fire isnt there but the love of wanting to coach is.

 

[BamaDude]

It’s Les dude. No one wants a 60 plus year old guy to rebuild a program and expect him to stick around... unless that program is desperate which Kansas is. Love Les, wish him the best, expecting the worst.

Not sure it can get any worse than it already is there. Les still has some cache'. Should be able to recruit better athletes than Bailey. Should be able to line up some decent assistants. Maybe he will actually hire a coordinator that knows how to run an offense.