BATON ROUGE (AP) — The proposed new contract for LSU football coach Les Miles calls for an average annual salary increase
from $3.751 million to $4.3 million over the seven-year term.
The Advocate reported the new deal, which Miles and Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Joe Alleva
agreed to in December, will be presented to the LSU Board of Supervisors at its Feb. 1 meeting.
The agreement was reached in December in the
immediate aftermath of Arkansas contacting Miles about its then-vacant
head coaching
position.
LSU, which was ranked No. 1 in one preseason poll, finished No. 14 in the final Associated Press poll after a last-second
25-24 loss to Clemson in the Chick-fil-A Bowl on Dec. 31 dropped the Tigers to 10-3.
Since the end of the season a record 11 underclassmen, counting former All-America cornerback Tyrann Mathieu, who was kicked
off the team last August, declared for early entry into the NFL draft in April.
But LSU is poised to land one of the top recruiting classes in the country on National Signing Day in two weeks, which would
help mitigate the loss of underclassmen.
"Les Miles is one of the most successful
coaches in America and he has the LSU program in position to compete for
championships
each and every year in the most dominant football conference (the
Southeastern Conference) in the country," Alleva said in
a statement released by LSU. "He recruits at an elite level, his
players graduate and he is a respected member of the community.
We are proud he will lead the LSU football program for the
long-term future."
The Tigers have won 34 games during the last
three seasons and have the most overall victories among Southeastern
Conference
teams during Miles' tenure, which began in 2005. His overall
winning percentage of .802 is the fifth-best mark in the history
of the SEC.