LSU reportedly entered contract negotiations with Florida State head football coach Jimbo Fisher before determining the high cost of making a change combined with the wave of support behind current coach Les Miles was too much to overcome.
Ross Dellenger and Elizabeth Crisp of the Advocate report discussions with Fisher were ongoing last week when the plan began falling apart for multiple reasons. One of the biggest was a projected cost of around $30 million to fire Miles and hire the Seminoles' coach.
Along with that astronomical figure, which the report notes "shocked" school president F.