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Last Friday evening, word filtered back to Ann Arbor: LSU was trying to sign football coach Les Miles to a huge extension. Miles was widely believed to prefer the Michigan job. He had sent signals through back channels for weeks, and he knew the terms of a pending five-year Michigan offer. But now he needed to know, for sure, that he was Michigan's man. U-M athletic director Bill Martin could not provide that assurance. Martin did not even tell Miles' representatives to hang on and wait until their Sunday or Monday interview. He didn't tell Miles, or anybody else, anything. Multiple people at U-M have told the Free Press that Martin was nowhere to be found. Several people tried to reach him, in pretty much every way. They all struck out. We live in the era of constant communication: cell phones, text messaging, e-mails, BlackBerries, Sidekicks, iPhones. Yet nobody could find Bill Martin. He was unreachable. One person familiar with what happened said Martin was in Florida.

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December 5, 2007  08:25 AM ET
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This guy could turn out to be one of the most over-rated coaches ever.

December 5, 2007  09:13 AM ET
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Perhaps in this day and age of instant communication...this was Martin's way of passively taking the offer off the table?

Conspiracy theorists may take the reigns here....

December 5, 2007  09:17 AM ET
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.........welp

Hey guys...he's staying at LSU...can we move on please?

This site has replaced ND threads with Miles/Michigan threads....

December 5, 2007  09:29 AM ET
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Miles is conservative so yeah, he probably *is* overrated as a coach. A head coach is only as good as his assistants....I heard Pellini clashed w/ Miles over defensive calls, schemes and game planning. Let's just see, if Miles doesn't shock me and NOT go to Michigan even w/ all this hubbabaloo that he's not, if LSU's defense regresses even more next season....

December 5, 2007  09:36 AM ET
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The horse is dead... why keep beating it?

December 5, 2007  09:39 AM ET
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"Miles is conservative so yeah"

~rhymesiter

I guess you haven't watched any LSU football this season....he's went for more 4th down plays and fieldgoal/punt fakes than I've ever seen at LSU in the last 25 years......put together.

December 5, 2007  09:40 AM ET
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And who is in the running for Bo's job? Muschamp?

December 5, 2007  09:41 AM ET
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^^

Dude .. .so how I wish...LSU had one bad **** defense when Muschump was running things..

December 5, 2007  09:41 AM ET
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Yes. LSU has been ANYTHING BUT CONSERVATIVE under Les is More

December 5, 2007  09:42 AM ET
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FornaCATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

December 5, 2007  09:42 AM ET
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FORNACATION NATION!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, I'm really bored!

December 5, 2007  09:43 AM ET
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Miles is conservative? Based on 2007, that's an odd statement. That said, I doubt Miles realizes always what quarter the game is in, much less what down it is. Fulmer is no longer the goofiest coach in the SEC.

December 5, 2007  09:49 AM ET
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I'm with TRUTH on this. I think not trying is not a failure, it is success at avoiding to choose between a "michigan man" that all the fans wanted, and the kind of man that michigan wants to be the face of their university.

December 5, 2007  09:50 AM ET
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To add to my earlier statement....imagine the flack Martin would take had he NOT pursued Miles?

December 5, 2007  10:00 AM ET
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Who cares? When is Michigan going to stop playing around with Les Miles and find a real coach already??

December 5, 2007  10:12 AM ET
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Who would YOU suggest Hova?

December 5, 2007  10:28 AM ET
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Michigan should be looking at guys like Muschamp or Venables at OK. These names have completely stayed out of the press, which both pleases me and makes me nervous at the same time that they might not be getting consideration as options.

December 5, 2007  10:33 AM ET
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Is Bum Phillips still kickin'?

December 5, 2007  10:50 AM ET
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Little Bum is...and he won't be coachin' Dallas past next season

 
December 5, 2007  12:16 PM ET
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Maybe Joe PA can get the Michigan job--is is the best coach in the Big Ten

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