Former LSU AD Says Miles Turned Down UM in 2011
https://www.landof10.com/michigan/former-lsu-ad-skip-bertman-says-les-m…
Former LSU athletic director Skip Bertman said Wednesday on 104.5 ESPN that recently fired LSU football coach Les Miles turned down Michigan and more money in 2011, when the Wolverines eventually hired Brady Hoke.
September 28th, 2016 at 1:13 PM ^
September 28th, 2016 at 1:56 PM ^
September 28th, 2016 at 2:10 PM ^
If Brandon was our AD then....not much else needs to be said.
September 28th, 2016 at 3:03 PM ^
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September 28th, 2016 at 11:37 PM ^
September 28th, 2016 at 4:21 PM ^
September 28th, 2016 at 5:31 PM ^
I am guessing LSU has to pay Les less if he finds another coaching job within a certain period of time. Ergo, the great "reference" from the AD...
September 28th, 2016 at 3:10 PM ^
Some of the PSU fans are demanding Franklin be fired right now and be replaced with Les.
I can't see Les going there unless it is at gun point.
September 28th, 2016 at 3:17 PM ^
It would be the best possible hire they could make. I'm hoping that Miles doesn't want to have anything to do with that shithole, but if he were to take that job PSU could become a real threat again in short order (provided he doesn't bring Cam with him).
September 28th, 2016 at 3:45 PM ^
I would be surprised to see Les take a job in the B1G East, and have to face UM every year, plus OSU and MSU. Really surprised.
Instead, I'd hope Purdue is rounding up every last dollar they can find to see what they can do to get the Mad Hatter to West Lafayette. They might be too much of a reclamation project for him, but that would be a brilliant hire for them. Get him into the midwest, get some attention to that program, and in a division where he'd have a better chance at succeeding.
September 28th, 2016 at 8:01 PM ^
...former LSU Head Coach Gerry DiNardo at Indiana.
September 28th, 2016 at 1:15 PM ^
*Shrugs shoulders*
*Goes back to watching Harbaugh gifs*
September 28th, 2016 at 2:27 PM ^
Exactly my reaction as well
September 28th, 2016 at 1:16 PM ^
I'm pretty sure this was known/assumed. Didn't we track Brandon's plane to Baton Rouge during the coaching search? Also, there were confirmed reports of Brandon meeting with Miles and his wife at a popular resturant down there.
September 28th, 2016 at 1:25 PM ^
September 28th, 2016 at 1:27 PM ^
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September 28th, 2016 at 1:32 PM ^
September 28th, 2016 at 1:47 PM ^
September 28th, 2016 at 3:23 PM ^
*friend's aunt*
meaning, some rando twitter user
September 28th, 2016 at 1:51 PM ^
of criteria for the job."
1. Is alive
2. Is not currently the subject of any felony criminal investigations
3. Will agree to coach this train wreck
September 28th, 2016 at 1:49 PM ^
I remember Brian later posting a pic of Brandon boarding a plane at Willowrun with the tail number visible. It was the same tail number of the plane we had been tracking, which Brandon denied he was aboard. That sunuvabich.
September 28th, 2016 at 2:07 PM ^
Maybe Miles turned down the job because he knew Brandon was a dickbag and didn't want to work for him. That seemed to continue through to the Harbaugh hire - that good coaching candidates with ties to UM didn't want to work for Brandon.
September 28th, 2016 at 2:20 PM ^
Harbaugh turned down Michigan in 2011 because Brandon was a dickbag, so it makes sense that Miles wouldn't want to work for him either.
Now about that fucking sailboat in 2007.....
September 28th, 2016 at 8:03 PM ^
I prefer asshat. But then that's just me...
September 29th, 2016 at 12:30 AM ^
September 28th, 2016 at 2:34 PM ^
because Brandon took him to Popeyes
September 28th, 2016 at 4:02 PM ^
Bojangles.
For. The. Win.
September 28th, 2016 at 8:43 PM ^
Four piece supreme dinner with cajun fries, honey mustard, and sweet tea.
And a side of boberry biscuits.
Yes.
September 28th, 2016 at 4:48 PM ^
Miles getting offered the job contradicts everything I've ever heard about the situation. I remembered someone asking him "how it feels to never land his dream job" and his response was something along the lines of "I'm not that old, am I?"
I do not believe this former AD.
September 28th, 2016 at 3:01 PM ^
Or as Lou would say:
September 28th, 2016 at 1:47 PM ^
With Dave Brandon, all things (save success) are possible. You'll recall that he famously replied to frustrated alumni with snarky emails. The man is not right.
September 28th, 2016 at 2:17 PM ^
September 28th, 2016 at 3:00 PM ^
Egotistical liar? Brandon should have gone in politics, he would fit right in with our choices in November.
September 28th, 2016 at 3:14 PM ^
September 28th, 2016 at 3:25 PM ^
At least something good came of his tenure here, other than building up the athletic campus.
September 28th, 2016 at 1:48 PM ^
We have a drone fleet? Nice.
September 28th, 2016 at 3:48 PM ^
before Harbaugh's hire, there were Michigan reps sent to talk with Les. We know the story behind the story of the first apparent effort to hire Les away from LSU before RichRod's eventual hire, less illuminating was the second apparent effort to land him as coach.
As others have mentioned, there were plane trips to Louisiana tracked on the site, but on the record, Brandon never ackknowledged that Miles was ever offered the job. However, there was a flurry of activity in Baton Rouge by Michigan just prior to the official announceent that Hoke had been hired to replace RR.
At the time, the official line was that Michigan had simply consulted with Miles and never formally offered him the job. Miles reportedly told Michigan that he would always consider taking the job if offered. But after the Louisiana subterfuge both sides claimed there was never an official offer on the table.
September 28th, 2016 at 1:39 PM ^
What do you mean "track"? He was screaming he was in Baton Rouge, flying in on a plane with a maize-and-blue winged nose. That overt display is why I still doubt Miles was offered. I know Brandon was an idiot but if it was a sincere overture, it would have been discreet. He was trying to placate the Miles faction. "See, I'm here! Can't say I didn't try!!!"
September 28th, 2016 at 4:06 PM ^
the rest is history.
September 28th, 2016 at 1:15 PM ^
Turned down as in "The job is yours if you want it" or turned down the way Dave Cutliffe "turned down" Michigan in 2014?
September 28th, 2016 at 1:43 PM ^
Yes, there was no formal offer to me, but I got the feeling I should just close that door before too much of an issue came of it.
September 28th, 2016 at 2:05 PM ^
September 28th, 2016 at 2:10 PM ^
I remember thinking that we were going to get Harbaugh if all these randoms kept coming up as serious names.
good times.
September 28th, 2016 at 1:16 PM ^
September 28th, 2016 at 1:17 PM ^
The SF 4th and 9ers found us a very good candidate...
September 28th, 2016 at 1:19 PM ^
Noice!
September 28th, 2016 at 1:34 PM ^
I see what you did there. +1
September 28th, 2016 at 1:17 PM ^
September 28th, 2016 at 1:17 PM ^
Turned down as in used the Michigan opening to leverage more money from LSU?