Les Miles talks about his interest in coaching Michigan
Les Miles talks about misfortune about never being offered the head coaching job at Michigan. He even compliments Moeller. Sorry to rehash this topic but I bet we wouldn't have descended so deep into the darkness with Les.
Water under the bridge - best wishes to him and zero regrets on the past. Here we are, 2019 with a great coach and staff and a bright future. ?
Go blue
Ok cool. Hook em.
August 7th, 2019 at 11:38 PM ^
Couldn’t agree more!
August 7th, 2019 at 11:17 PM ^
Surprisingly well done
Sparty fan there...almost thought the tat said NO RUGRATS
By the way is that a guy or a girl?
Dude from the movie We're the Millers
Scottie P, nah what I'm sayin
depends on the day and the mood
It's a "they" according to popular culture today.
I know it could never happen, but I'd take him as RBs coach immediately.
Mike Hart would like to have a word with you
August 7th, 2019 at 10:53 PM ^
Based on...? He was an OL coach when he was here.
August 8th, 2019 at 12:06 AM ^
I get that Jay got his job because of his dad...but he's been pretty damn good at it. From a recruiting standpoint and from a pure coaching standpoint.
People love to hate on him.
Les Miles is done, and he's not a position coach. Jay is hungry, improving, and is a WAY better RB coach than Les Miles could ever be at this point in his career. It's not even close.
Would I love to have Wheatley back or Mike Hart? Sure. But we could do a lot worse than Jay Harbaugh. He's earned the respect at this point, he's never been the weak link.
This year will be a big time test with the guys he has and I'd like to see what he does at the RB position with the 2021 class because there are 3-4 blue chip guys that Michigan has a legit shot at...we need 2 of them. But he's earned the opportunity to have his crack at it over the next 1.5 years.
August 8th, 2019 at 12:29 AM ^
Has Jay really done that great of a job as a RB coach though? How many times do I need to read a UFR and hear about all the yards the RBs left on the field by not seeing their blocks correctly or not picking up the blitzing LB. I feel like these are the kinds of things a RB coach should be able to improve on.
Valid points, but they don't obscure the fact that Jaybaugh has earned his keep from the start. His TE's were among the best group in the nation, and his RB's have performed well enough to gain national acclaim and decent draft choices. Higdon, nor Evans, were ever good blockers, and neither of them ever will be. When did Mason miss a block? Or Wilson? They are both pretty devastating as blockers...
Jay is a young coach, and he's performed very well at a premier program. The only reason people (like you) don't like him is because he's the head coach's son, and you just want to scream 'NEPOTISM!!!'. That was a concern in 2015 - it is no longer a concern.
August 8th, 2019 at 10:07 AM ^
I don’t know how to “rank” Jay as a RB coach. He hasn’t had overwhelming talent to work with. I mean our “stud RB” last year didn’t even get drafted.
August 8th, 2019 at 10:40 AM ^
It is hard to evaluate his ability but I had the distinct impression that the running backs' overall performance improved when he took over from Fred Jackson. And Jackson was generally considered to be a good coach.
I’d rank him fairly high. I responded to a tweet unrelated to UM football about making tough choices and said “that’s how you end up with Jay Harbaugh as your RB coach”. It was obv a negative connotation and I did not tag him at all, that would have been rude. Weeks later on the day that OSU lost two recruits they expected to sign he liked the tweet. I had to appreciate his awareness and the polite FU message he sent with the timing of it.
his RB's have performed well enough to gain national acclaim and decent draft choices.
Is typed this out right?
No RBs that Jay Harbaugh has coached have been drafted.
That's a dumb measure given how RBs are in NFL offenses nowadays.
August 9th, 2019 at 10:31 PM ^
I don't think you were following what I was commenting about. I was responding to this comment above:
his RB's have performed well enough to gain national acclaim and decent draft choices.
August 8th, 2019 at 11:53 AM ^
his recruiting seems to be pretty good
Harbaugh blows him out of the water. No regrets
I think the trade off is we would have never had 3-9, 5-7 twice. We wouldn’t have a higher ceiling of a program but we had to go through 6 pretty lousy years of football we would have otherwise avoided.
With a loss to Toledo and the zips
Beat Akron 28-24.
August 8th, 2019 at 12:25 AM ^
Yeah we did, goaline D!
all seriousness, I was in the Les camp back in the day. Who knows how it would of played out, but sure as hell would have been better than RR and Hoke.
They hire Les and the chances of Mallet staying significantly increases (Threet almost certainly never starts a game), recruiting doesn't dip (Miles was great and is still great at that), and yeah that floor never caves in.
Maybe struggle to beat OSU and win the division, but a Les Miles coached and recruited team doesn't lose 9 games outside of the SEC in the late 2000s.
People knock Miles for the end of his tenure at LSU and forget how good he was at LSU because the best coach in the SEC was god damn Nick Saban. Miles was the 2nd best coach in the SEC up until maybe 2 out of his last 3 years. He was easily at top 5 CFB coach during his tenure at LSU even including the drop off at the end.
August 7th, 2019 at 10:29 PM ^
Lloyd Carr - 6-7 in bowls, 1 national championship, .753 winning percentage, 5 Big Ten titles.
Les Miles - 7-4 in bowls, 1 national championship, .770 winning percentage, 3 SEC titles
Les Miles coached yearly against Urban Meyer and Nick Saban from 2007 through 2010. Before that he had Meyer for a couple of years and after Meyer left he was competing with a juggernaut. Miles coached against 2 of the top 10 coaches of all time as well as a plethora of other extremely good coaches in a very tough conference. I think the SEC is overrated as it is now but there for about 4-5 years they were loaded at the top and Miles consistently was right there at the top with them. Lloyd Carr screwed Michigan out of getting a better coach than him.
August 7th, 2019 at 11:45 PM ^
Les banged Moeller’s Wife back in the day. Lloyd couldn’t allow it.
An obscure football player once said something very apropos to this, "Everyone bangs everyone."
c'est la vie!
Herbstreit sabotaged this on game day before the biggest LSU game of the season by announcing he was coming to Michigan.
Uh... there was nothing to sabotage.
This is true. However, I'm not in the camp that says he did it intentionally. I take him at his word that he thought he had news to relay, and it blew up in his face. As he said back then - and every day since - he's left the news reporting to others since then. He only opines, which is sometimes just as disturbing as his 'news' turned out to be...
Actually I think he did it intentionally...
August 7th, 2019 at 10:38 PM ^
Unranked Wisconsin beat him at the end
Hard pass
August 8th, 2019 at 12:27 AM ^
Mallett wasn't ever going to stay with Michigan even with Miles in fold. He was not well liked by the players and staff.
August 8th, 2019 at 10:24 AM ^
True- plus he wanted to go to Ark (which had recruited him hard out of HS- but he didn't want to compete with Mitch Mustaine), where the offense would showcase passing. When has a Miles offense ever done this, even when he's had good QBs?
August 13th, 2019 at 11:00 PM ^
That was the biggest shortcoming of Les Miles offense. They had a lot of offensive talent but they were mediocre at best because the QB play has been average at best but mostly bad. This is the biggest reason why LSU fans felt that they underachieved relative to the talent they have in the program.
I guarantee that there will be a ton of Michigan fans complaining about Les Miles inability to produce a good QB if he was coaching Michigan
August 7th, 2019 at 11:39 PM ^
Any program could use a top notch recruiter. Les Miles could recruit.
I'm sure he could have brought in enough talent to keep our bowl streak alive.
Miles would have done just fine at UM. But personal squabbles and administrative politics kept it from happening.
Ron English said when they took Jai Eugene from Michigan that Bo declared Les Miles would never coach here again. So far that has come true. It had nothing to do with him banging anyone's wife.
WTF dupe
Then he shouldn’t have banged Mrs. Moeller.
Whoa, Nelly!
Youngins probably don't even know this rumor.