re: Oklahoma sports radio claiming Miles to Michigan

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Miles should take the Michigan job if offered this time around. Here's why: His recruiting in Louisiana is dropping a bit, especially on the lines. The 2013 and 2014 classes were really good, but 2012 was terrible and 2015 looks pretty bad. Everyone is trying to poach out of Louisiana. The SEC West is a bloodbath and Miles' form of football does not match the style of play here anymore. He can go to Michigan, play his style of football, and go 9-3 or 10-2 every year without even trying. They play no one. He can go to the Rose Bowl over and over and he has a better route to the Playoff every 3-4 years. He would recruit really well because he has the SEC pedigree to bring into homes all over the Midwest. AND, he has the connections in the South for players that SEC teams miss. It would have been a bad move in 2007 and in 2010, but it would be a great move for him now. Plus, he is running out of steam here at LSU. Change can be good for everyone once in a while. I say all of this without real animosity towards Miles. I am just saying that the reasons for staying in the past have evaporated. He would be more successful at Michigan now than he would have been in the past. He loses his OLine this year at LSU and the once great 2015 run that we have all been looking forward to seems to be a longshot since our OLine and DLine play will be even worse next year than it is this year. You can't compete in the SEC with that. If Miles is smart, he will take the chance to get out.

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