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According to a source with knowledge of the situation, the Arkansas Razorbacks have offered a contract to LSU Tigers head coach Les Miles to run their football program for the next five season.
The source has informed the New Orleans Times-Picayune that Arkansas has extended a five-year, $27.5 million offer to the 2011 AP College Football Head Coach of the Year. The Razorbacks have an opening in their head coach position due to university firing interim head coach John L. Smith on Saturday following the conclusion of one of the school’s worst seasons on the grid iron.
According to the source: “They made a serious offer, (Athletic director) Joe (Alleva) is meeting with (Miles’) agent and the discussion is ongoing.” Miles’ agent, George Bass, has told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette “there’s nothing going on like that.”
Miles just signed a contract extension with the Tigers prior to the start of last season that was supposed to keep him under contract with the university through 2017, but in the world of coaching college football, that can all be changed in a matter of minutes and a stroke of a pen.
Miles is coming off a season where he led LSU to a double-digit win season for the sixth time during his eight-year tenure in the Bayou, a stretch that includes two BCS Championship Game appearances and winning it all in 2007.
Chances are that with Miles making $3.75 million annually at LSU and having a solid foundation there, he would not leave and go to their rival school in Arkansas, but you never can tell when it comes to college football coaches and the decisions they make.
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