Things that make ya go hmmmmmm

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Michigan, Les Miles and ESPN............ (Posted on 12/1 at 11:45 p.m.)
so imagine if you are someone VERY high up at Michigan that desperately does not want miles to be the next UM HC. what do you do to make certain that Miles isnt the UM HC?

Answer: you try to frick him and embarrass him on the day he plays for the SEC CG. How do you do it? You call someone who trusts you and will take what you say and run with it. Someone like the tOSU/ESPN Golden Boy Kirk Herbstreit.

So not only do you guarantee Miles wont be the next UM coach by creating a situation where you embarrass him on the biggest day of his coaching life and make him DENY UM, you get to embarrass herbstreit and ESPN in the process.

Somebody very high up at Michigan won the coaching search poker game today and had a double win (eliminating Miles once and for all and completely embarrassing Herbie) in the process.

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here is what I speculate happened:

Mike Debord was rehired by Lloyd Carr at Michigan after he went 12-34 at Central Michigan, so he owes him. Plus there was a lot of rumors that the next head coach was going to be pressured to keep some UM coaches and Debord is supposedly one of them. Add to that Carr got his asst coaches an extra year of salary and they really owe him.

So the Carr camp doesnt want Miles, they need to do something to make sure it isnt Miles and the rumors are a tentative agreement is in place with Miles for after the SECCG. I am speculating but it would not surprise me if the following happened:

1) Debord or someone else intensely loyal to Carr contacts Howard and says not only is Miles coming but he will be on his 2008 staff. This confirms what Howard knows from the UM Coaching search committee. Keep in ind that the AD at Cincy said that when he was contacted for permission to speak to Brian Kelly, it was Lloyd Carr himself who called on behalf of Michigan. So Carr is obviously on the UM coaching search committee too.

2) Howard tells Herbie what Debord or whomever told him and confirms that the Miles deal is in place. Howard doesnt want to be the person who breaks the story because he is involved with the UM search and he doesnt want to be accused of a conflict of interest from his Michigan associates.

3) So Herbie needs a second confirmation and he calls Debord or whomever it is that spoke to Howard and gets a 2nd confirmation directly from the UM Asst Coach. Because Herbie has a second confirmation from a direct source, he doesnt need to name Desmond Howard as his source to his ESPN Gameday producer and Howard can stay above the fray and not have a conflict of interest between UM and ESPN.

4) Herbie makes his statement Saturday morning, embarrassing Miles in the process, and the Carr camp/LSU has boxed Miles in a corner. So Miles has to choose what direction to go in. he has the three LSU contract offers in hand, he is pissed at UM and the way they are handling him on the biggest day of his coaching life, so he chooses the best LSU contract (the one for before the SECCG), has his press conference and debunks herbie and denies his UM intentions which eliminates him from consideration for the UM job forever. The AntiMiles/Carr camp at UM wins the battle and the tOSU/ESPN golden boy is humiliated.

5) Herbie realizes he has been duped by the Carr camp at UM, calls Miles Saturday night after the SECCG and apologizes and also allegedly named his UM source to Miles. After that, Miles has the emotional PC where he talks about how sad he is he cant be in two places and he will not be going back to Michigan. Miles understands that even though he may want to be at UM, the powers that be dont want him and it hurts him. But the consolation is he a hero to an entire state and he has made himself a rich man through loyalty to LSU.

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The more I hear about UM the more it sounds like BAMA and the bama mofia!

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if UM boosters are pissed wait until they have to watch Les hold the crystal up after beating tOSU

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On UM's Rivals board, they is a former UM player getting folks to e-mail Martin. They may take some more drastic steps and start making death threats.

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I feel for Les but he made the right decision for himself. A coach doesn't need to be at a school where someone in the administration is out to undermine you right from the start. at mich. he would constantly have to look over his back to try and see what loyd and his cronies were up to.

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