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Report: Les Miles offered John Chavis hefty extension night of Music City Bowl
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LSU coach Les Miles did all he could to keep defensive coordinator John Chavis in Baton Rouge.
First reported by The Advocate, Miles offered Chavis a three-year contract worth $5.4 million hours after the Tigers’ Music City Bowl loss last season, according to documents Chavis filed in a lawsuit against LSU.
Chavis reportedly declined the offer with lawyers present inside Miles’ hotel room in Nashville. Documents say Miles knew Chavis was leaving LSU for Texas A&M weeks before the Tigers’ bowl appearance.
From The Advocate’s report:
After the Tigers lost 31-28 to Notre Dame in the bowl game, Miles, his lawyer and Chavis met. Miles offered the coach a contract that would pay him $1.7, $1.8 and $1.9 million over three years.
“Chavis never saw the details of this offer,” Chavis writes in his filings. “He still refused it.”
A&M is paying the coach $1.5 million in 2015, $1.55 million in 2016 and $1.6 million in 2017. It is a fully guaranteed deal. Chavis made $1.3 million in his final year at LSU and was set to make the same in 2015 – the final year of his contract.
On the day of the bowl game, Chavis asked Miles if he needed to give a 30 days notice, and Miles told him no, the filings say.
“John it is not necessary if you are not going to stay I do not want you hanging around here,” the documents show.
Chavis is asking for more than $600,000 in wages he feels are still owed to him.
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