Report: negotiating contract between KU and Les Miles

The search for the next head coach of the University of Kansas football program is likely to be over.

According to a report released Friday by Sports Illustrated, The Miles of the KU and the former LSU head coach are in the final stages of negotiating an agreement that should bring Miles to Kansas.

Ross Dellenger, of SI, announced that an announcement could be made "as early as this weekend".

The report says negotiations between Miles, 65 and KU "continue this week".

Miles' way to becoming a football coach in Kansas – or elsewhere – became clearer Thursday when he and his former employer, LSU, reached a $ 1.5 million financial settlement for the buyback that allowed at the school to fire him in 2016.

SI reported that an agreement between Miles and KU was imminent, unless there was a last-minute change.

When Journal-World contacted the KU Sports Director's office, Jeff Long, on Friday afternoon to respond to the report, a spokesman repeated Long's statement of Nov. 4 that AD would not comment on the new research. coach is officially announced.

Fourth-year KU football coach David Beaty, who was fired three games remaining in the season, but decided to keep him in place in the 2018 finals on November 23rd.

Since the day Long decided to leave Beaty, Miles is considered one of the best candidates of the KU AD.

The former LSU coach and Oklahoma State (142-55 in 15 seasons or so) and Long know each other since their cross at the University of Michigan in the late 1980s. Miles worked as an assistant coach for the Wolverines, while Long was assistant director of sports.

The KU football team has not won more than three games in a season since a previous sports department regime forced Mark Mangino to resign following the 2009 season.

This season, Kansas is 3-7 overall and 1-6 in the top 12 on Saturday in Oklahoma No. 6 (9-1, 6-1).

In his fourth and final year at the KU, Beaty is 6-40 overall as a head coach, with a 2-32 record against a big 12.