re: Schad: LSU might be willing to waive/lower Les Miles' 1.25M buyout

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He was just on ESPNEWS and stated sources from the Miles camp said it would be extremely difficult to say no to Mich IF they offered, and sources from LSU are the ones leaking that LSU would waive the buyout.

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I think the University of Michigan may be feeling a bit precautious to pay LSU 1.25 million on top of whatever other embarassing amount of money they've already promised the Miles to come to Michigan. You have to consider that UM knows that many of their alumni are gonna complain about their beloved school hiring the media's clown to be their coach. If LSU waives the buyout, UM officials can say "hey, he's a proven 10 win/year coach that can recruit, AND LSU waived their buyout. How could we say no." In these tough econmic times, their $5 mil/year is going to piss off a lot of tenured professors. This is a way (albeit, probably in vain) to appease the faculty, if only slightly.