re: List of coaches to replace Miles if Miles does indeed take the UM job

Jim Harbaugh.

Miles takes Michigan
Harbaugh to LSU
Miles works there 4-5 years then is appointed to AD and he hires Harbaugh from LSU

PACKAGED deal. All 3 parties (49ers, Tigers and Wolverines are working on)

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ure, make Patterson say no, but my list was more realistic options (not sure how Stoops got on there...I removed that one). I heard last year that Jimbo would be open to change of scenery and with similar reports out there two weeks ago, its the only reason I say we contact him.

But I would not expect to get some high profile coach...it usually doesn't work out that way.

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The timing is bad for Jimbo. He's not going to leave in the middle of a NC run, and if he gets to the championship game (very possible) the earliest he could realistically take the LSU job is mid-January (approximately 3 weeks before national signing day) He may want to leave FSU, but this isn't the year to do it.

Best realistic candidate - Butch Davis. He built the early 2000's Miami teams which had a riduculous amount of NFL talent on them. He also recruited multiple NFL players to UNC, a school with relatively little notoriety as far as football is concerned. There's no reason to think that he couldn't expand LSU's roster with even more NFL talent. That's a scary thought!

Yes, he's 63 and has the UNC baggage. However, that is looking more like an long-seeded institutional problem moreso than just a "Butch Davis" problem. Assuming he wants to get back into it for one last shot, it's not unreasonable to think that he could have LSU's roster look those of his teams at Miami.