re: It's time for Les Miles to end this Michigan crap once and for all...

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That is an awfully definitive statement augmented by an underlined word, given that there have been books and articles and people, credible people, indicating otherwise.

I'm not saying he definitely has or hasn't. I think the number of people who know for sure is relatively small. And you're not one of them

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In 2008, Bacon was granted unrestricted access to Michigan’s football program, from the meals and the meetings, to the practices and the games, to the sidelines and the locker rooms. Nothing and no one was off limits. From that perspective he produced his latest work, Three and Out: Rich Rodriguez and the Michigan Wolverines in the Crucible of College Football ]

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On Friday, December 7, and again on Monday, December 10, Bill Martin, Mary Sue Coleman and Les Miles talked on a conference call. Both conversations were simple and pleasant. During the second call, Coleman said she could not hire Miles without meeting him first, and asked Miles to meet her and Martin in Miami, where Miles had already scheduled a recruiting trip. Miles replied that he could not do any face-to-face meeting until after the national title game. Miles let them know both times, however, that, "If you want me, then after the bowl game, I will be your coach. I just can't do anything before that. [But] I would never say no to Michigan."

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The one coach who everyone agrees did not receive an offer from Michigan, again, was Les Miles. He had been handled shabbily during the 2007 search, and it appears he wasn't treated much better in 2010, either. All overtures to him were strictly a show designed to appease his supporters. When Rodriguez asked Brandon in December of 2010 if he already had someone lined up, Brandon denied it but said he would hire Les Miles "over my dead body." The rest was theater.

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