re: Michigan, Les Miles and ESPN............

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He knew he was coming to enemy territory. He feared that he would never be embraced by Carr and that he'd be fighting that the entire time he was here. Miles wanted to retain some of the Michigan assistants because he respects their ability. However, he feared that he could not. They were loyal to Carr and he feared divisions within the program before he even got started.

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Whether you think this is true or not (it sounds believable to me), there is a good lesson here. Lots of posters have talked about how someone would always go "home" if asked, others said you will always take the money. Reality is that career moves (even for a football coach) are a lot more complicated than that. When faced with a choice, a rational person will look at the whole package and decide which situation is the best one to be in at the time. I think that's what happened here.

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I know reporters have great alliegence to their sources. That they gotta keep them secret in order not to scare away future souces...But does all that still apply if you find out your source had totally frickin lied to you and made you look like a fool on national t.v.?

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Absolutely. There are other ways of dealing with that issue.