re: [Theories] Why Miles Is Staying

His lucky rabbit foot may only work at LSU

I believe he stayed because UM nor anyone else has OR will offer him a job!!

Les was never leaving LSU. He was playing the game to get more power within his own program. He was never consulted over playing Oregon next year and the powers to be changed his coaches show from Walk-Ons to TJ Ribs without even asking. How do you think Saban or Meyer would react on these kind of things?

He kept things going in the news for a couple days for recruiting. LSU was all over ESPN on the day of the BCS national championship game. Every kid in the country now knows Les Miles will never leave LSU. Les played this perfectly. How many times over the past couple years do you think other coaches have told kids,"Les wont be at LSU if the Michigan job opens up. He is a Michigan man." Now that cant be said.

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He didn't get offered by Michigan and that's a fact

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No....it's not.

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I think he and the family like it here, and at some point, uprooting your entire family is not worth it.

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This was a major factor imo.

On the other hand, at LSU, he'll always be viewed as a the guy who took the keys to the Ferrari that Nick Saban built. At Michigan he would be given full credit for building the Ferrari. I guess the challenge was too daunting for him. A lot of established coaches had turned down the opportunity to rebuild the Crimson Tide before Nick Saban decided that he was up to the challenge.

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I never said it was low ball or less money than lsu. I said it wasn't as much as he wanted to make the change.

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I'm guessing he wanted comparable salary to leave all the talent he has here, and obviously certain guarantees hed be given a fair chance (X amt of years) to rebuild.

After watching them boot RR with only 3 seasons under his belt I dont really blame Les, if that was the case.

I am surprised Michigan held back after all of that, "We'll do what it takes..." talk.

Miles must be happy @ LSU and told them what it would take to get him, whereupon they said, " "

Kind of like me with my '68 Chebby.

I'm glad he's staying!

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Les was never leaving LSU. He was playing the game to get more power within his own program. He was never consulted over playing Oregon next year and the powers to be changed his coaches show from Walk-Ons to TJ Ribs without even asking. How do you think Saban or Meyer would react on these kind of things?

He kept things going in the news for a couple days for recruiting. LSU was all over ESPN on the day of the BCS national championship game. Every kid in the country now knows Les Miles will never leave LSU. Les played this perfectly. How many times over the past couple years do you think other coaches have told kids,"Les wont be at LSU if the Michigan job opens up. He is a Michigan man." Now that cant be said.

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This is impossible. I know, because half the Rant has insisted that CLM is a bumbling idiot who couldn't coach the New England Patriots to a win over the Little Sisters of the Poor, at least, not without the only halfway redeeming quality he possesses, luck (which has replaced 'saban's players' since those dudes all matriculated out). These same people are now insisting that UM never even offered CLM, because everyone knows that he's lucky he doesn't spear himself in the eye with a fork every morning at breakfast because he's that fricking dumb, so I must conclude that IF anything in these events happened to fall in CLM's favor, they did so only because he's lucky NOT because he approached the situation with any kind of actual strategy or thought behind it.