re: Does anyone else have the feeling...

I think so.

And I also think, Miles was never offered the job in 2007, just Mich kicking the tires, and I've said so here for years.

As a member of GIC, I've seen his body language when asked about 'momma calling him home' many a time..his response though always PC verbally..always said 'gone pecan' physically and in delayed timing reaching for the right PC response in words.

The timing has never been better for him to go if he were to. He has a skin-on-the-wall now, Mich appears to be now offering equal salary unlike in the past(and before Miles got fattened up these last few years for his family's future), he can go where he will not be questioned too hard, regardless of results, for at least 4 to 5 years.

Despite the LSU success, butting heads with Saban, Petrino, Chizik, Mullen, Nutt, Richt, SOS, Muschamp, etc..much tougher than what the Big-10 brings in Tressell, Bielema, Ferentz, Dantonio, Fitzgerald, JoePa, etc..

Not in that the HCs are any better, but that Michigan when recovered properly to it's rightful place, has but OSU and maybe PSU as a true recruiting peer and in overall talent...where as the SEC goes much deeper and far more balanced in depth.

The shame of it if here were he to leave now, is that with this season, he is just finally beginning to escape Saban's shadows to the masses. As despite each HC's BCS title at LSU, Miles win pct and multi 11 win marks, are something to differentiate vs Saban's program rebuilding.