  Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 972 Registered: 10-2003 |
Apparently Les Miles doesn't. There's a report that Miles has agreed to an extention at LSU. Not signed yet, though. So whose the second choice? | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 2909 Registered: 06-2006 |
this was posted a couple hours ago in the sports thread https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/120434.html?1196529363 | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 713 Registered: 03-2007 |
A hell of a way to make a living...watching a bunch of 19-21 yr. olds running up and down the field with your paycheck in their hands. Its not a surprise that Miles isn't the choice...there was a story in the NY Times a week or so ago about the deal. IF he had won the national championship his salary would have jumped from $1.5M to $3.5M...with that scenario the deal would have cost U-M something like $7M by the time they got through buying out assistant's contracts, paying him, paying off LSU for his escape clause, etc., etc., etc....it looked too pricey even for Michigan. | ||
Meaghansdad Member Username: Meaghansdad Post Number: 170 Registered: 07-2007 |
Ferentz at Iowa is the obvious 2nd choice. Truthfully, he's a better choice that Miles. Ron English was given the obligatory interview, but I think even he would as equal a choice as Miles. | ||
Meaghansdad Member Username: Meaghansdad Post Number: 171 Registered: 07-2007 |
Remember, he's winning with Saban's recruits! | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 2910 Registered: 06-2006 |
"Its not a surprise that Miles isn't the choice" hmmmm...I think you might be a bit in denial there buddy...Michigan didn't turn Miles down, he turned them down. This is a total slap in the face to the University and quite an embarrassment for the football program that they couldn't get this guy. | ||
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313 Post Number: 566 Registered: 02-2006 |
^^^^ I hear you^^^ What a disappointment. <313> | ||
Ffdfd Member Username: Ffdfd Post Number: 238 Registered: 09-2006 |
I'm glad Miles is staying put with how much he would have cost in buyout and salary. The dollar figures I've seen bandied about are absurd. Frankly, I wouldn't mind seeing UM deemphasize football and basketball or eliminate them altogether. It's an institution of higher learning and the football coach is going to make 10X what a physics professor makes? The University of Chicago dropped out of the Big Ten and the Ivies stepped down from the big time and those schools maintained their prestige. It won't happen in Ann Arbor, but I wish it would. | ||
Citylover Member Username: Citylover Post Number: 2768 Registered: 07-2004 |
How can someone turn down a job that has not been offered? UM is saying nothing about this. | ||
Andyguard73 Member Username: Andyguard73 Post Number: 267 Registered: 03-2006 |
That's what I was wondering citylover. | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 2911 Registered: 06-2006 |
btw, what the deal with this supposed "best friend" of Les Miles whose been talking to all the local newspapers when Miles very clearly wanted to be private about all of this? | ||
Goblue Member Username: Goblue Post Number: 717 Registered: 03-2007 |
Ffdfd: How about 20-25X a top physics professor! You're right...its beyond absurd! | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 2282 Registered: 04-2006 |
quote: That's because the U-M sports program is a cash cow. Tenured professors that bring the University lucrative patents get paid well too. | ||
El_jimbo Member Username: El_jimbo Post Number: 394 Registered: 12-2006 |
I thought I'd heard that Ferentz already turned down the job. | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 973 Registered: 10-2003 |
A newspaper ran a story about the University Of Washington football program a number of years ago that noted that the program was self supporting, as well as supporting most of the rest of the athletic department, and increases the visability of the university to both the public (and more importantly) the alumni. Wasn't it John Hanna who once said something like "If it takes a winning football program to bring this university (Michigan State College Of Agriculture And Applied Science) respect, by God we're going to have a winning football program."? Worked for them.... | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 2029 Registered: 11-2003 |
My first choice to replace Lloyd? Brian Kelly , now head coach at Cincinnati. ( 9-3 this year and headed to a Bowl game). Several fabulous years at Grand Valley State, then on to Central, and now he has turned the program around at Cincinnati. This is an "up and comer". But I guess I'm the only guy in the room who wants him. | ||
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed Post Number: 1500 Registered: 02-2006 |
The_rock, see Rosenberg's column: quote: Kelly is a certified asshole and egomaniac (or so says those in the know...Rosenberg's not the first to say this...ask people at CMU). I'm sure he is not welcome at Michigan. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 4090 Registered: 02-2005 |
Awhile back Kelly made some questionable statements. I'm not remembering the incident too clearly but it involved some (black) players being arrested and he tried to pass it off by suggesting that "their type" come from "bad upbringings"...he also has an excessive temper. He is surely being shunned in the stodgy and PC UM environment. | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 2032 Registered: 11-2003 |
So much for my choice. I will call John L. Smith and see if he is interested. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 5674 Registered: 11-2003 |
We all know one thing, The Rock is on the inside. He's been on the inside at UM since he personally hired Fielding Yost, back in the day. The Rock was a hod carrier for Albert Kahn on his UM jobs. jjaba. | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 2033 Registered: 11-2003 |
Well, not quite Fielding Yost, but I got to meet Bennie once, Bump twice, and Bo signed my ( cherised) 1960 Michigan-Ohio State football program. And we did retain Albert Kahn Architects once as trial experts on a staircase accident over at the old Stouffer's restaurant on Washington Blvd. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 5675 Registered: 11-2003 |
The Rock knew that if he hired Albert Kahn's firm, they'd be so believed The Rock would easily win in a slip and fall incident. The Rock's UM stories are legendary. Has The Rock ever posted his UM poem? jjaba. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 4115 Registered: 02-2005 |
...Greg Schiano doesn't want to coach Michigan, either. See today's News. He's looking to win big in Jersey instead. | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 902 Registered: 03-2006 |
I think Schiano's dream job is Penn State. Paterno wont give it up. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 4116 Registered: 02-2005 |
I like Schiano's odds, though. | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 2050 Registered: 11-2003 |
jjaba--no poem 'til we win a Bowl game. Mich has been rather medicorie in post-season games. I can't believe that M-Florida will be much better. |
