Chavis tried to warn Les Miles

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ormer LSU defensive coordinator John Chavis warned Les Miles that a provision added to assistant coaches’ contracts — dubbed the “Les Miles clause” — was the university’s first step toward getting rid of the head coach.

“This kind of reminds me of Phillip Fulmer,” Chavis told Miles in November 2014.

That’s according to a deposition Miles gave in the ongoing legal fight between Chavis, now Texas A&M’s defensive coordinator, and LSU, his former employer.

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Before leaving LSU in December 2014, Chavis told people that LSU’s treatment of Miles — and the “Les Miles clause” — was a sign the school planned to fire the coach in the same unceremonious fashion Tennessee fired Fulmer in 2008. The "Les Miles clause" ties assistants to Miles. If he is fired or resigns, LSU staff members’ contracts won’t be fully honored. A similar clause appeared in the contracts of Tennessee assistants — including Chavis, then UT’s defensive coordinator.

“I would say coach Chavis felt that there was more than one thing being done at the university that the treatment of coach Miles was disrespectful,” said Dean Dingman, LSU’s assistant director of football operations, in his deposition. “He actually used the term that it reminded him of what happened to coach Fulmer at Tennessee.”

Alleva admitted in December that he “looked at options” and made “inquiries” regarding a potential new football coach last fall

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