re: why has Miles to Michigan talk resurfaced?

Step 1 would be ditching Bill Martin as AD.

He had a chance to get Miles and completely blew it, either through stupidity or through deliberate inaction.


Either way, his job as AD is supposed to put the hiring and maintenance of his departments' teams first and the requisite arse-kissing of rich alumni for building donations second.

Since he can't seem to grasp that, they need to tell him to sail on out of Ann Arbor.


Step 2 would be telling Carr to stay out of Michigan football politics.

Now that he's retired, he either needs to stand by and support the new head coach, whomever it is, or he needs to go home.


He's not Bo, no matter how much he wants to be, and, as such, shouldn't have the kind of post-retirement influence on the program that Bo was allowed to have.


3. Pay off the current assistants' contracts in full if the new coach decides not to retain them.


The disposition of the assistants seems to be a huge sticking point in negotiations with potential replacements such as Greg Schiano.


If interviewing coaches are told "We're paying off the assistants, whether you keep them or not, so just keep the ones you want and then hire your choices for the rest", they'll be released of the obligation to keep Carr's cronies on despite the demonstrated incompetence of one or more of them.



None of the above will likely happen, ESPECIALLY the third step, because of a combination of misguided loyalty and the fact that Michigan's athletics department is notoriously cheap despite their status as a top program.