Our plane is headed to Baton Rouge

I agree, recent developments seem to cast a much better light on DB, and his efforts on this search.  It is hard to discern what really is going on here, but I believe in DB as well.

I'm trying really hard to believe...hope something happens soon to justify it.

I really like your post.  You are even more cynical than I am, and have put together quite a sensible and believable scenario.  I especailly take comfort in your rationale regarding Hoke.  Your point about theater is very well-taken, too.  That would make Miles even more deserable to Brandon, because of Miles' high profile.

They don't call him the 'Hat, or "mad hatter," for nothing, but that has given him a higher profile than many coaches who are better than he is.  Hiring Miles would guarantee Michigan even more publicity than it already gets.  Sometimes it would be for a terrible move that works out great, and sometimes for a terrible move that works out terrible.  But it would still be publicity.  And, as everybody "knows," there is "no such thing as bad publicity."

I still think this rationale would put Chucky first, because he is the master of generating publicity.  But the possibility of Miles seems a lot less irrational to me now than it did before.

I just hope, that by happy accident, the product on the field continues to improve.