Saban to Miles: Take the Michigan job

by Barking Carnival Staff on Dec 11, 2007 9:32 AM CST in Texas Longhorns and Other Football

According to the Detroit Free Press, Les Miles is talking to the Wolverines again. Miles had a phone conversation Friday morning with Michigan athletic director Bill Martin and school president Mary Sue Coleman, according to several people with knowledge of the call.

While Miles did sign an LSU contract extension late last week, adding a year to his deal, his yearly salary -- around $2.6 million if he loses the BCS national championship game and close to $3.4 million if he wins it -- remains unchanged. The $1.25-million buyout to leave for Michigan reportedly is still in place.

I'm pumped
I am no Dick Cheney

Miles was quoted as saying, "Yeah, I spoke with them, but only to help them identify other candidates like Brian Kelly, Kirk Ferentz, and Jeff Tedford. I wouldn't pull a Dick Cheney and help the search committee and then offer my own name as the best candidate."

Desmond Howard, a member of the Michigan search committee, told fellow ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit that he is suddenly out of the loop. "I have no idea why."

Former LSU and Miami Dolphin coach Nick Saban said, "He should take whatever job he wants. That's why there are buyout clauses."

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Brian Kelly and Tedford are the best options.

Farentz is the most overpaid overrated coach/athlete/trainer in all of sports.

by Mockingbird on Dec 11, 2007 9:41 AM CST reply actions

What is the Michigan equivalent of Youngstown State?

by HenryJames on Dec 11, 2007 10:07 AM CST reply actions

Tedford? Did you see how Cal finished this year?

Tedford and Ferentz are the two most overrated coaches in college football today.

by HornInExile on Dec 11, 2007 10:17 AM CST reply actions

Mack Brown and Greg Davis are the two most underated coach’s in college football.

by echeese on Dec 11, 2007 10:49 AM CST reply actions

Mangino would have that job by now if he weighed 200 lbs. less.

by Nordberg on Dec 11, 2007 10:54 AM CST reply actions

I don’t know, he’d still be topping 5 bills.

by AugieSpiers on Dec 11, 2007 11:04 AM CST reply actions

Al Borges is out as OC at Auburn.

by HenryJames on Dec 11, 2007 11:32 AM CST reply actions

I have a bad feeling that Les Miles is going to use his role in the search committee to try to get himself hired as the new Michigan coach.

by Harriet Miers on Dec 11, 2007 11:57 AM CST reply actions

Anyone that could make Brandon Cox a serviceable Division I QB should have some great jobs lined up.

by kchorn04 on Dec 11, 2007 12:03 PM CST reply actions

I hate Desmond Howard. What a tool. I can’t imagine why ESPN put him on the air.

I don’t know what to think of Tedford any more. But if you’re inclined to occasinally drop 6 games a year, Stanford and Cal are the places to do it and not get fired. It’s still interesting his name has not come up on Michigan’s short list (that I know of).

by McLovin on Dec 11, 2007 12:13 PM CST reply actions

I am thinking that the most likely person to get the job at this point is Greg Davis. I will go out on a limb and predict that next year we will hear about how bad the new coordinator is from all of you negative nancies.

by Redfoot on Dec 11, 2007 3:28 PM CST reply actions

“I am thinking that the most likely person to get the job at this point is Greg Davis. I will go out on a limb and predict that next year we will hear about how bad the new coordinator is from all of you negative nancies.”
greg davis will be hired for the michigan job right about the same time the pyramids match up with orion’s belt…you know, at the apocalypse.

by mileslong on Dec 11, 2007 4:26 PM CST reply actions

I told you he was just helping the search committee an entire day before Les thought up the convenient lie.

"I had a conversation with Michigan last week that covered a wide range of topics. I was doing nothing more than helping them with their search for a football coach, just as any loyal alumnus might do. It was nothing more than that.

by BRAGGonUT on Dec 12, 2007 12:58 PM CST reply actions