Les Miles indicates Saturday's game will be last as LSU coach, according to report

ByABC News
November 27, 2015, 4:46 PM

— -- Les Miles' final hurrah with LSU could take place Saturday, according to a media report.

Speaking Friday to the LSU Gridiron Club, a booster organization, Miles indicated that the Tigers' game against Texas A&M will be his last with the program.

"He didn't use those words, but he made it clear that Saturday is his last game," one Gridiron club member told the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

An LSU spokesman, meanwhile, said that Miles didn't tell the booster club that Saturday would be his last game, but that "if indeed this is my last game thanks for all y'all have done for me."

"He was basically using it as an opportunity to thank them because he wasn't sure if he'd be in front of them again," the spokesman said.

"He by no means resigned or gave any indication of tomorrow being his last game at all."

A source close to the situation told ESPN's Joe Schad that LSU leadership is "heavily in favor" of a change but that a final decision has not been made and that Miles has not been formally informed he will not return. Another source said Miles is "very likely" to be let go soon and that Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher is still LSU's primary target.

According to the Times-Picayune report, Miles said he would not be coaching the bowl game, and did not stay to answer questions.

"He said we're a second family to him and he's going to miss us, he appreciates his real friends, and then he told us goodbye," the source told the newspaper. "It was very emotional but in control."

LSU (7-3, 4-3 SEC) is sitting midpack in its conference for the fourth straight season. Miles' job status has been in question for more than a week, and speculation has intensified now that LSU is suffering the program's first three-game losing streak since 1999.

Miles has won two SEC titles and one national championship since becoming LSU coach in 2005. He has won 77.5 percent of his games at LSU, the best winning percentage for any coach in the modern era of LSU football.

ESPN staff writer David Ching contributed to this report.