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Les Miles - Former HC OSU/LSU/Kansas

boydbuff said:
Was just searching for a previous thread on Les Miles. Seems many have warmed up to the idea of LM back in Boulder in the more recent fire HCMM threads. Curious what people think about LM replacing HCMM. He is 65 but I think he could come back and make waves. It hasn't been that long (especially seeing that Herm came back and is doing better than expected after what 2 decades?).

Latest news is that he is being heavily recruited by Kansas. If he is even remotely willing to take that **** job in that **** conference in that **** town with a team with that **** history, you have to think he'd be quite keen to return to Boulder instead. Thoughts?
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Nice to see you back. He would be a solid choice. My main reservation would be age, but I'd take him.
 
BerkeleyBuff said:
We could do far worse. At his age he isn’t the long-term answer, but he would improve the play and probably be capable of recruiting well. If he is willing to get an innovative OC it could work quite well.
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What’s considered a long term solution in college football? Gundy, Dantonio, Saban, Whittingham type situations are so few and far between. Chris Petersen, James Franklin, Dabo, Paul Chryst are on their way to being 10+ year guys with their programs but realistically, any coach young enough to coach for 10+ years, probably isn’t staying at CU for that long anyways. Either getting fired or hired away in 4-5 years are the likely scenarios. Basically, I’m not worried about a “long term solution” at HC for 7-10 years from now, but rather 1-4 years from now.
 
TSchekler said:
What’s considered a long term solution in college football? Gundy, Dantonio, Saban, Whittingham type situations are so few and far between. Chris Petersen, James Franklin, Dabo, Paul Chryst are on their way to being 10+ year guys with their programs but realistically, any coach young enough to coach for 10+ years, probably isn’t staying at CU for that long anyways. Either getting fired or hired away in 4-5 years are the likely scenarios. Basically, I’m not worried about a “long term solution” at HC for 7-10 years from now, but rather 1-4 years from now.
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I agree I’m not worried about 10+ years right now. I get the feeling Miles would be good for 3-4 years, so the only point was that as soon as he got it good well we’d need to start thinking about what’s next. Eventually, it would be great if we could get a solid 8-10 year coach. It will be hard to retain someone we’d want that long but not impossible either. In the meantime I think Miles could be a great choice to get things going the right way for a few years.
 
Compared to our last 3 coaches, LM would be a bottom on the 9th, 2 out, grand slam. Take him a heartbeat.

Much more likely that we hire some ****ting coach from a ****ty conference and pay him a ****ty salary, because that’s just how the buffs roll.
 
DenverBuff said:
Compared to our last 3 coaches, LM would be a bottom on the 9th, 2 out, grand slam. Take him a heartbeat.

Much more likely that we hire some ****ting coach from a ****ty conference and pay him a ****ty salary, because that’s just how the buffs roll.
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That's not how RG rolls. Can not understand such negativity towards a potential hire he would make so long as he's our AD.
 
BerkeleyBuff said:
I agree I’m not worried about 10+ years right now. I get the feeling Miles would be good for 3-4 years, so the only point was that as soon as he got it good well we’d need to start thinking about what’s next. Eventually, it would be great if we could get a solid 8-10 year coach. It will be hard to retain someone we’d want that long but not impossible either. In the meantime I think Miles could be a great choice to get things going the right way for a few years.
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If we get a good 4 years with a jump in fundraising and, possibly, some positive things breaking with the conference deal and PACN in that time frame... then CU's stature when making the next hire could very well be back to at least the level it was when Barnett was hired.
 
Duff Man said:
Have you watched Louisville at all this season?
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I have only watched small bits and it was bad. It was watching Louisville in 2017 that made me think they were heading for a cliff. They couldn't stop anyone, made a ton of stupid penalties, and Jackson was running for his life having to carry everything. The fact that Jackson was able to deliver an 8-5 record with what was going on around him made it one of the best individual season performances in college football history. Better than his 2016 Heisman year in my opinion.
 
DenverBuff said:
Compared to our last 3 coaches, LM would be a bottom on the 9th, 2 out, grand slam. Take him a heartbeat.

Much more likely that we hire some ****ting coach from a ****ty conference and pay him a ****ty salary, because that’s just how the buffs roll.
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The only issue with this statement is the AD. Rick George knows what a successful fb program does for a university. Don’t let the last AD’s ineptness clout what Rick will do.
 
BerkeleyBuff said:
I agree I’m not worried about 10+ years right now. I get the feeling Miles would be good for 3-4 years, so the only point was that as soon as he got it good well we’d need to start thinking about what’s next. Eventually, it would be great if we could get a solid 8-10 year coach. It will be hard to retain someone we’d want that long but not impossible either. In the meantime I think Miles could be a great choice to get things going the right way for a few years.
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This is why I was rooting hard for Chev to be the real deal. If he was able to prove himself as a great offensive mind and playcaller, I felt we’d have our guy for 10+ years, as I can’t imagine he’d ever leave. But, didn’t work out that way and I’m fine with moving on at this time. Perhaps he goes elsewhere, develops as a coach and then IS that guy 5 years from now that “comes home”.
 
patebuff said:
The only issue with this statement is the AD. Rick George knows what a successful fb program does for a university. Don’t let the last AD’s ineptness clout what Rick will do.
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Dick Tharp to Mike Bohn was a really bad run at AD. Amazing to me that the athletic department is such an afterthought for the president and chancellor that those guys survived in the job as long as they did. They each got like 9 years. What other major school puts up with that for that long?
 
Buffnik said:
Dick Tharp to Mike Bohn was a really bad run at AD. Amazing to me that the athletic department is such an afterthought for the president and chancellor that those guys survived in the job as long as they did. They each got like 9 years. What other major school puts up with that for that long?
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They just wanted to stay out of the news with the non scandal. I’d like to hope they realized their error, but a little late
 
Getting the right coach and it being a fit is about as good as getting the right quarterback out of the NFL draft it may look good on paper but you won’t know until two or three years down the road and recruiting classes and WINs which solves everything and makes all problems go away
 
Buffnik said:
Dick Tharp to Mike Bohn was a really bad run at AD. Amazing to me that the athletic department is such an afterthought for the president and chancellor that those guys survived in the job as long as they did. They each got like 9 years. What other major school puts up with that for that long?
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Besides CU, I can't think of one.
 
Lol. C’mon y’all, let’s get a bit more realistic. Of the three schools I have degrees from, one of the two non-CU schools would kept those guys around just as long. You could go around the country and pick out quite a few more as well.
 
Les Miles would be the king of the Denver area since the Broncos are going through a rough time and LM > VJ. Great ESPN publicity, more respect from the PAC 12 network, rock solid recruiting from all 3 hot zones (California, Texas, Southeast). Not saying the Buffs overtake the Broncos, but the step up with Les Miles would be huge.

Also, Viska stays happy, just need a call from Les Miles old buddy OBJ!

Coordinators are important, especially QB with Evans being an important keep. This team and roster are capable of 8 wins or more with OL improvements. Les would want to win and not rebuild or essentially try to fix a crappy Kansas program.

I am all in on Les
 
4BienemyTDs said:
Les Miles would be the king of the Denver area since the Broncos are going through a rough time and LM > VJ. Great ESPN publicity, more respect from the PAC 12 network, rock solid recruiting from all 3 hot zones (California, Texas, Southeast). Not saying the Buffs overtake the Broncos, but the step up with Les Miles would be huge.

Also, Viska stays happy, just need a call from Les Miles old buddy OBJ!

Coordinators are important, especially QB with Evans being an important keep. This team and roster are capable of 8 wins or more with OL improvements. Les would want to win and not rebuild or essentially try to fix a crappy Kansas program.

I am all in on Les
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Viska can't declare for the draft because he's too young. Why transfer? He'd have to sit out a year, and he'd probably hurt his draft stock. He'll stay regardless of who the coach is for next year just because doing otherwise doesn't make any financial sense for him. Let's not worry about him.
 
I did not say anything about transfer or sitting out! I said Viska would be happy, which means keeping the system focused on him and the strong WR corps. I know Viska is not going anywhere.
 
AllStarBuffs said:
what are the realistic chances we land Les Miles? Seems like a pipe dream
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How is it a pipe dream if the media reports are true that he is remotely considering Kansas? No way in hell LM prefers Kansas over CU Boulder. If LM is serious about being a HC again I would think we have a damn good chance, BUT many are just assuming that RG is going to can HCMM. I think there is a good chance, but a) he may not do it until the end of the season which could be too late if LM gets an offer and takes it before the season is over; or b) what if we do win at least one of our remaining games, go to a bowl game and HCMM stays in part because he could argue that our performance dropped so much due to the unusually high number of injured starters?

My suspicion as many have said is that RG wanted HCMM to work out but is also excited about putting his stamp on the most important job in college sports?
 
Injuries are no excuse for RG to keep him.
Howell did a good job of pointing out that while the numbers 9+4 more were thrown around for injured players in the presser, the true number is more like 4+1 significant injuries and Bounds leaving the team is more like it.

Do not open that door and let that excuse in!!!

All the specialists that have filled in deserve a ton of credit! We are getting as good or better ST performance than in 2016.

And Rakestraw is coming on strong
 
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