The Johnny Jones era will soon come to an end, according to a report by The Advocate.
According to the report, LSU athletic director Joe Alleva will meet with Jones on Friday to relieve him of duties as coach LSU’s basketball team.
The news comes on the heels of a 2016-17 season that included a school record 15-game losing streak and a 2-16 conference record.
Jones will leave LSU with an 90-72 mark in five seasons with, a NCAA tournament appearance in 2015 and an NIT tournament appearance in 2014.
The Tigers’ 10-21 record this season is the least amount of wins in a season since 1997, when LSU finished 9-18 under then-first year coach John Brady.
Alleva hired Jones in 2012 after he spent 11 seasons at North Texas where he compiled a 190-146 record.
Jones won 39 games in his first two seasons at LSU — the most by any LSU coach in his first two years — and Alleva then decided to give Jones a two-year contract extension and a $400,000 pay raise, bringing his salary to $1.5 million.
Jones’ contract runs through 2019.
In the 2014-15 season, Jones took LSU to its first NCAA tournament appearance since 2009, but the Tigers were bounced out of the first round, after squandering a 16-point lead second half lead to NC State.
Jones and LSU then welcomed the No. 1 recruit in the 2015 class, Ben Simmons and five-star guards Antonio Blakeney and Brandon Sampson, to go along with two returning starter from the Tigers’ tournament squad.
However, following an up and down 2015-16 season, LSU was defeated in the second round of SEC tournament losing 71-38 to Texas A&M.
The Tigers did not earn an NCAA tournament bid and declined to participate in a postseason tournament after finishing the season 19-14.
Under Jones, LSU has had four NBA draft selections, including Simmons going No. 1 overall in the 2016 draft.
The DeRidder, Louisiana native spent 22 years working with the program, four years as a player, 13 as an assistant coach as a member of former LSU coach Dale Brown’s staff and five as a head of LSU’s basketball team.
