Freep - Les Miles was offered more money to become Michigan's football coach last week, turned it down twice and got a new contract at LSU, but he will make the same salary he has made since 2008 and will be cheaper to fire than under the old deal. Miles was offered more than $4 million to coach Michigan, but he is staying at LSU for $3.75 million a year plus more incentive money and a new extension through the 2017 season — three years more than the old contract. "He was offered more than $4 million to become the Michigan coach," LSU Board of Supervisors member Stanley Jacobs said Friday. "When he said no, they came back and offered him more. And he said no again. I was told in the $4.25-million range — and turned it down. Then they came back and offered more, and he turned it down again."
Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon, however, has maintained the job was never offered to Miles, or to Jim Harbaugh, another former Michigan player who recently left Stanford to coach the San Francisco 49ers after interviewing with Brandon before Miles did.
I don't for a second think that Brandon only offered the job to Hoke. I hope that the job was offered to Miles and Harbaugh and they turned it down because of their desire to coach elsewhere rather than think we were too scared to take a shot at either of them. Because in my opinion looking undesirable isn't as bad as looking gutless.
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