Report: Les Miles tells boosters Saturday is his final game at LSU

Les Miles reportedly told the LSU Gridiron booster group on Friday that Saturday will be the last time he coaches the LSU Tigers.

According to Glenn Guilbeau who covers LSU and the New Orleans Saints out of Baton Rouge for USA Today, LSU Tigers head coach Les Miles reportedly told the LSU Gridiron booster group that Saturday will be the final game he coaches for the LSU Tigers.

Les Miles has been on the hottest seat in college football the last several weeks as his LSU Tigers have lost three straight games for the first time since 1999: the last year of the Gerry DiNardo era in Baton Rouge.

To make matters worse, all three of LSU’s losses have come to SEC West rivals of the program. LSU went from being the No. 2 team in the nation in the initial College Football Playoff poll of 2015 to being unranked after three straight losses to Alabama, Arkansas, and Ole Miss.

Rumors have circulated for weeks that the LSU athletic department has grown weary of Les Miles’ inability to develop quarterbacks and increasingly losing games in conference play since dropping the 2011 BCS National Championship to SEC West rival Alabama. Many feel that Florida State’s Jimbo Fisher is the man who LSU is targeting as Miles’ potential replacement.

By telling the LSU Gridiron that Saturday’s regular season finale against Texas A&M, it may mean one of two things for Les Miles: he could have been told by the LSU athletic department that he will be fired at the end of the season or Miles isn’t appreciative of all this hostility surrounding him and his football team. Miles could very well resign and pursue another Power 5 job he’ll certainly get.

Not even a month ago, this seemed like an impossibility, but now it seems that LSU will join South Carolina and Missouri as the third SEC head coaching gig that will have a new coach in 2016.