re: Michigan fan here

Most definitely. They hired John Belien recently and Martin seems to feel that that process worked well and is applying it here. What he has not understood is that the football coach and basketball coach are on very different planes in the Mich Nation's order of importance.

More importantly, he now knows how much big $$ donors, important alums, former players and former coaches care about this hire.

As to prestige, well they knew the entire athletic program was depressed. That is why B. Martin was brought in...to fix the facilities and finances parts. As a highly successful business guy, who understands development he was probably the right choice (and he takes not salary for the job). That he has done. Hiring coaches has been problematical though. Tommy Amaker comes to mind.

They can still get this right. But the Miles thing poses another problem. Now the hire has to be either a top 5-7 guy to compare favorably with Les or it has to be an up-and-comer. Anyone else just gets BM and MSC ripped. Maybe fired!