Do you think Miles ever showed real interest in Michigan job?

pretty much feel he was gone had Herbie not made that statement on gameday that morning.

after that, Miles was basically just out to prove him wrong.

Miles is the one pulling the strings in Ann Arbor this year. He's coaching both teams as of today and that is how great he really is.

The coach of Michigan is just a figure head duh!

Herbie is well connected in Big 10 country and I think it was a done deal. However, the leak right before the SECCG killed the deal and with the SEC and potential NC on the line, Miles had no choice. I don't think he was much of a candidate this last time around.

I wonder if Herbie leaked the info purposely to help OSU and to sabotage the UM hire. He knew that would kill the deal.

Who gives a frick? He's still here.

I think he was gone but backed out over the story leaking. Same thing with Saban to Texas. Coaches are control freaks, and like to do things on their own terms. Leaks piss them off.

No, he wasn't ever going to go back to Michigan. Only a few places in the country allow you to recruit the majority of your players from within a 2 mile radius and LSU is one of them. He was as interested as he needed to be to get some love and pay raise in the past.

Plus I am sure he is connected enough at UM to know that Harbaugh was going to get the first shot.

https://www.thepostgame.com/features/201110/book-excerpt-how-michigan-chose-rich-rodriguez-and-brady-hoke-instead-les-miles-and-

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On Friday, December 7, and again on Monday, December 10, Bill Martin, Mary Sue Coleman and Les Miles talked on a conference call. Both conversations were simple and pleasant. During the second call, Coleman said she could not hire Miles without meeting him first, and asked Miles to meet her and Martin in Miami, where Miles had already scheduled a recruiting trip. Miles replied that he could not do any face-to-face meeting until after the national title game. Miles let them know both times, however, that, "If you want me, then after the bowl game, I will be your coach. I just can't do anything before that. [But] I would never say no to Michigan."

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After Rich Rod was fired:

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The one coach who everyone agrees did not receive an offer from Michigan, again, was Les Miles. He had been handled shabbily during the 2007 search, and it appears he wasn't treated much better in 2010, either. All overtures to him were strictly a show designed to appease his supporters. When Rodriguez asked Brandon in December of 2010 if he already had someone lined up, Brandon denied it but said he would hire Les Miles "over my dead body." The rest was theater.

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Edited to correct link

IDK what is true or if he was going or not but what I do know is I won $100 off of him staying lol.

I was at SEMA in November 2007 and was listening to a big speaker at one of the seminars they had talking. Well I of course had my LSU hat on like always and about half way the seminar the speaker stopped talking and looked at me and ask me this "You do know UM is taking Les from you all at the end of the season right?", it took me a second to realize what he meant but I just started laughing and and we went back and forth for a minute or so. Well at the end of the seminar he walked up to me to talk some more we ended up exchanging business cards and making the $100 bet. About a week after UM hired their coach I received a check in the mail with a note saying "You win this time but we"ll take him soon". Haven't spoken to the guy since lol.