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If the SEC is the major leagues, Morgantown is single A at best. Their fans really don't know anything about football.

Perhaps I'm reading too much between the lines. But I'm also looking at four years of decreased offensive output since he's been here. It's not just that Kelly is good, though he is. It's also that Crowton is terrible.

If Miles stays at LSU, he could very easily be fired after one more year (Oregon@neutral site, @WVU, Auburn, @Bama, @MooState, Florida--all will be tough games) especially with no QB (even if Mettenberger comes in, he will have to adjust), new offensive coordinator, and loss of key defensive players.

At Colorado, he would be guaranteed four years before anyone even looked up to see how he was doing. If he could get the team to a bowl game by then, he'd at the very least have 6 or 7 years. If he got them to 8-4 and a bowl game, he could retire there. At his age (56), I'd think that would have to be a consideration.

I'm sure he cares about the money, but I think he might care about keeping a job (even at a lower pay) more.

I'm not saying the PAC-10 won't get a bigger TV contract with 5/6 of the Big 12 South on board. I'm sure they will. But once the pie is divvied out, I think that most of these schools will find that they could've made more money elsewhere.

Texas cares less about money (which they would make plenty of, whether they're in the Big 12, Big 10, SEC, Mountain West, Independent, etc.) than control.

In the PAC-16, everyone will do what they tell them.
In the SEC, they'd be just another big-time program.

If it means giving up a few mil a year early on, they don't care, they just want to be in charge.

Start looking at Michigan real estate.

Class is irrelevant when the fanbase is being ripped off this badly.

"Fire Les Miles," "Les is Least," or "BTR --> DTW $262 One Way"

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My thing is this. In 2008 the #1 priority is to win. I just dont see a program not hiring a black guy if he is a proven winner.

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This claim is ridiculous. It's hard to prove one's ability if you aren't given the opportunities.

This is not a case of one coach being hired over another and thus the whole system is unfair. It's more a combination of factors:

1.) A longer history of whites coaching at I-A schools.
2.) More visibility for white coaches, and networks that help them move up in the ranks (though not necessarily at the expense of coaches of color).
3.) African-American players and former players not pursuing coaching as a career in numbers equal to whites.
4.) Certain programs (including probably LSU) being more comfortable with the idea of a white coach than not, at least in certain instances.

1.) and 2.) can go some of the way toward explaining 3.)--if you have not been coached by people who look like you, you may not see it as a possibility--but does not explain it entirely.

Nor does 4.)--I agree, most programs are more concerned about winning these days than what the coach looks like, but I think it's been a factor historically and still plays out in certain instances (Notre Dame and Alabama, for example).

I think it's entirely possible that some up-and-coming coaches of color will land major coaching jobs at top schools--Charlie Strong, Turner Gill, Tyrone Nix, and the Houston coach, for instance, have all proven that they are worth a shot, IMO. But then again, that type of thing has been said before yet has proven not to work out that way.

Really hard to fault fans who left. It wasn't just that we were losing, or that it was cold--the team wasn't playing well, and it looked for all intents and purposes like the season was going down the drain.

I almost wonder if having the fans leave put less pressure on the team and helped them turn it around. Either way, I'm glad they did, and hope they can continue it next week.

ESPN's coverage used to be good. Used to be.