Great Hire

LSU just got themselves a very good football coach.

LSU's saga of a search for its new football coach has ended at Les Miles.

The Oklahoma State coach, who led the Cowboys to three bowls in four seasons, has accepted an offer as LSU's successor to Nick Saban. Miles will be introduced at a 1 p.m. ET news conference Monday.

At least five and as many as six current Oklahoma State assistants are expected to leave Stillwater with Miles to join his LSU staff, sources have told Gottlieb. The main sticking point in the negotiations had been that Miles insisted that his assistants be given three-year contracts, the same insistence that Miles had during his tenure at Oklahoma State.

In his four years at Oklahoma State, the 51-year-old Miles was 28-21. This was the third consecutive year that the Cowboys had gone to a bowl game, which hadn't happened at OSU since 1985.