LSU Insiders Speculate Les Miles is Headed to Michigan

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The title says it all. That's the chatter from the folks over there. Also, Les Miles tweeted "Geux Blue.... beat em in the Horseshoe!!" yesterday.

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saveferris

December 1st, 2014 at 8:23 AM ^

This hits upon a good point that never gets discussed much when folks talk about Carr's succession.  Lloyd had mentioned retiring as early as after the 2003 season and it was Martin AND Bo who convinced him into staying on.  Tells me a lot about Carr's coaching tree, or at least what Bo thought of Carr's coaching tree, when he is convincing him to stay on as head coach.

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SJS

December 1st, 2014 at 12:57 PM ^

Shortly following the loss to Maryland the UM plane was no longer trackable (I'd been watching it from the time Brandon stepped down to see where an AD might come from).

FlightAware posted the following on Nov 22 or 23:

"This aircraft (N582CJ) is not available for public tracking per request from the owner/operator."

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tricks574

November 30th, 2014 at 5:58 PM ^

Is one of the coordinators has to be a guy you are OK with taking over the program when he leaves. He's old enough that you have to plan for his retirement, and the program has had too much turmoil to go through another culture change in 5 years. If he can grab a big name offensive coordinator (not Cameron or Loeffler, please god not them) and bring Chavis or even just Pelini along for a few years, you can probably find someone in that group who can keep a program at a 10ish win level.

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Tater

November 30th, 2014 at 4:00 PM ^

Les MIles isn't even close to being the second-best option.  There are plenty of great coaches out there doing more with less than Les.  If it's not Harbaugh, I want a coach who uses a 21st century offense.  

LSU fans really want this to happen a lot more than Michigan fans do.  That should speak volumes.

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aiglick

November 30th, 2014 at 4:08 PM ^

I'd do it if he were to be paid around where Hoke was maybe even $3 million per year for five years. We would be taking a risk and this is not the same situation as seven years ago. He may not be desperate now but if he decides to stay with LSU and has another season or two like this he may be forced to leave and would probably at that point either retire or go to a lower program. Miles is a pretty high risk and possibly high reward candidate. If he brings a great staff and like the other poster said a slam dunk successor then he may be the guy provided we mitigate some of the risk. He is not worth Harbaugh money in my opinion but for the right price why not?

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Albatross

November 30th, 2014 at 7:20 PM ^

Couldn't disagree more, there are not too many people with National Championships under their belts and a track record of winning everywhere they went. Plus he has the intangibles. Harbaugh is option 1, Miles is option 2. Anything else and leadership isn't serious about getting it right.

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November 30th, 2014 at 7:53 PM ^

Les Miles is a better football coach than Harbaugh. His record when trailing heading into the 4th quarter is over .500, the best of any active college coach...by a mile. He has been successful at two different Power 5 schools. I'd rather have him over Harbaugh.

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TheLastHarbaugh

November 30th, 2014 at 6:21 PM ^

I mean, I'm not exactly thrilled that he's 61 years old, but we could do a lot worse. He could stay for 5 or 6 years, get us back to being a top tier program, and stabilize us going forward.

I don't believe there is any chance of us landing Harbaugh. Grabbing a guy considered one of the top coaches in the country who happens to be from a premier program in the ESS EEE SEE wouldn't be so bad.

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Albatross

November 30th, 2014 at 7:14 PM ^

That is the attitude that will ensure a continuation of the nonsense we have seen for the last 7 years. Here we have a National Championship winner, been successful running a major college program, is an elite recruiter, and oh by the way is one of our own. But no, we are too smart for that, we would rather just roll the dice. Unbelievable, you would think we learned something by now.

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