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Old 12-12-2007, 09:44 AM
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saban was in louisiana recruiting the other day, they were all over that happening as well. it's amazing.

i wonder tho, if miles is really leaving, how long petrino would wait before calling lsu. he'd bolt arkansas for a better sec opportunity faster than you can say 'contract negotiation'.
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Old 12-12-2007, 10:07 AM
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saban was in louisiana recruiting the other day, they were all over that happening as well. it's amazing.

i wonder tho, if miles is really leaving, how long petrino would wait before calling lsu. he'd bolt arkansas for a better sec opportunity faster than you can say 'contract negotiation'.


I think if you really look at this......LSU made it public that Michigan asked for ( and received) permission to talk to Miles about the Michigan job.That'd be the only job mentioned in his LSU contract finding it necessary for Miles to give LSU 1.25 mill. should he jump to Michigan.This is because Michigan is Miles' number one desire as he is Michigans'. This is no news.

So stay with me on this..............is it very hard to connect a line from this sequence of fact and lead it to contract negotiations?


Do you really think Herbstreit just made his report up out of chocolate pudding??

The guy with the million plus dollar sports analyst/game commentater job?

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Old 12-12-2007, 10:10 AM
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I think if you really look at this......LSU made it public that Michigan asked for ( and received) permission to talk to Miles about the Michigan job.That'd be the only job mentioned in his LSU contract finding it necessary for Miles to give LSU 1.25 mill. should he jump to Michigan.This is because Michigan is Miles' number one desire as he is Michigans'. This is no news.

No stay with me on this..............is it very hard to connect a line from this sequence of fact and lead it to contract negotiations?


Do you really think Herbstreit just made his report up out of chocolate pudding??

The guy with the million plus dollar sports analyst/game commentater job?
Don't forget his exclusive self-tanner contract.
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Old 12-12-2007, 10:13 AM
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Don't forget his exclusive self-tanner contract.
and hair gel...and pencils.

what's the deal with everyone holding a g--d--- pencil anymore?!?! even al michaels does it now.
thanks lee corso.
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Old 12-12-2007, 10:15 AM
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Don't forget his exclusive self-tanner contract.
Really...I have no great feeling on Herbstreit one way or the other..I really don't.


He doesn't even have the rep of someone who breaks news so by looking at the whole thing it seems to me he did have what he reported. I think that alone is probably what caused all the hernias.Easy to see.

I'm sure no one was happy this broke right before their conf. title game thus the mass damage control.
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Old 12-12-2007, 10:12 AM
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what has it cost herbstreit to make the report? nothing.
he and others do it all the time. where is the punishment if they're wrong? nowhere. oh, well a source said-he didn't confirm it, he was too anxious to get it out there before the game....so they run with it. there's no harm, no foul if they're wrong, so why not hope to be right?

mark may announced nutt resigned as a done deal, as tho nutt was already packed and gone, weeks before it actually happened. who went after him for making a report that at the time was incorrect? no one. it was reported grobe was going to arkansas, didn't happen. it's not life or death, so no one really feels they're laying their neck on the line to run with a possible story.
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Old 12-12-2007, 10:19 AM
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what has it cost herbstreit to make the report? nothing.
he and others do it all the time. where is the punishment if they're wrong? nowhere. oh, well a source said-he didn't confirm it, he was too anxious to get it out there before the game....so they run with it. there's no harm, no foul if they're wrong, so why not hope to be right?

mark may announced nutt resigned as a done deal, as tho nutt was already packed and gone, weeks before it actually happened. who went after him for making a report that at the time was incorrect? no one. it was reported grobe was going to arkansas, didn't happen. it's not life or death, so no one really feels they're laying their neck on the line to run with a possible story.

You're blind Dannie.



Herbstreit said on national tv he went over the details with his bosses at ESPN...and they said to report it.



I can't say anymore to you pointing out how grossly illogical are your thoughts here. You hate Ohio State and therefor you hate Herbstreit...I guess. That's all I can see from you.
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Old 12-12-2007, 10:22 AM
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i didn't even know til just now that herbstreit played at osu. i knew he played somewhere.

did you read the ombudsman article i put up the link to? the lady who wrote it said that herbstreit should never have run that story the way he did. that it was irresponsible on his part.
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Old 12-12-2007, 10:26 AM
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excerpts from her article:


As Herbstreit's later remarks would make clear, that information came not from "sources," but from a single, anonymous, uncorroborated source.

Herbstreit stood by his source, despite Miles' continued emphatic assertion that he was staying at LSU, until the ESPN college football analyst finally was forced by circumstances to concede his error the next day.

Given an anonymous source, who to judge by repeated on-the-record denials was not Miles, his agent or Michigan athletic director Bill Martin, and given the degree of at least slight doubt implied by "barring any unforeseen circumstances," why did ESPN go with a story that risked affecting outcomes -- the championship game and the job negotiations -- by itself becoming an unforeseen circumstance?

"Given that no deal is done until an agreement is signed, we could have tempered this one more than it was," Doria said. "In hindsight, we should have said something like, 'A source has told ESPN that Miles and Michigan have agreed on money and length of term, but no contract is signed, and Miles has to go to Michigan for a face-to-face interview with AD Bill Martin.' "

That would have been better, but we have been given no reason to believe it would have been any more true. All we know for sure is that ESPN's reputation as a reliable source of "scoops" has taken another blow. When viewers respond to the phrase "a source has told ESPN" with a "we'll see" attitude, as many who write me say they now do, it undermines the efforts of ESPN's entire staff of producers, editors and reporters
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Old 12-12-2007, 10:27 AM
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i didn't even know til just now that herbstreit played at osu. i knew he played somewhere.

did you read the ombudsman article i put up the link to? the lady who wrote it said that herbstreit should never have run that story the way he did. that it was irresponsible on his part.

Is the lady right?


Should he have reported it?


I don't know...maybe not...but all I'm saying regarding the report is it makes no sense to me he would report something like that unless he and his bosses felt they were on firm ground.

I'd say what has happened since then only reinforces it.
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Old 12-12-2007, 10:35 AM
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You're blind Dannie.



Herbstreit said on national tv he went over the details with his bosses at ESPN...and they said to report it.



I can't say anymore to you pointing out how grossly illogical are your thoughts here. You hate Ohio State and therefor you hate Herbstreit...I guess. That's all I can see from you.
I don't care for Ohio State, but I actually enjoy Herbstreit. He is typically one of the more knowledgeable reporters on ESPN IMO.

With that said, I don't believe that Les Miles will be going to Michigan. LSU is a better coaching job and I can't see him leaving.
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I don't care for Ohio State, but I actually enjoy Herbstreit. He is typically one of the more knowledgeable reporters on ESPN IMO.

With that said, I don't believe that Les Miles will be going to Michigan. LSU is a better coaching job and I can't see him leaving.

Oh he may not...I never said he will leave. I think he will.

But putting all this together makes me think there are serious things going on between Miles,Michigan and LSU.

How you can possibly say LSU is a better job than Michigan other than pay ( for now).....is mind boggling.
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Oh he may not...I never said he will leave. I think he will.

But putting all this together makes me think there are serious things going on between Miles,Michigan and LSU.

How you can possibly say LSU is a better job than Michigan other than pay ( for now).....is mind boggling.
If I had a choice to coach LSU or Michigan, I would take LSU and this is why:

In current-day recruiting, LSU hardly ever loses out on a recruit that is also interested in Michigan (if ever)... they may lose some recruits to USC and Florida, but LSU is privy to some of the more sought after recruits in the South. While Michigan has 7 NC titles, I don't see them on the up and up while I DO see LSU headed that direction. This is JMO for what it is worth...
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Old 12-12-2007, 11:16 AM
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Oh he may not...I never said he will leave. I think he will.

But putting all this together makes me think there are serious things going on between Miles,Michigan and LSU.

How you can possibly say LSU is a better job than Michigan other than pay ( for now).....is mind boggling.
good lord! i agree with morty.

at this point IF miles stays at lsu he will have the michigan job hanging over his head just like roy williams had the unc basketball hanging over his.
3 yrs from now, michigan is deeper in the toilet than they are now, and begging miles to save them, he'll go next time for sure. he's a michigan player and alum and taught by Bo! in Bama terms "momma called", miles will go back to michigan.
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Old 12-12-2007, 10:36 AM
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I read the story again,Dannie.

I'm still not sure what it says other than she doesn't feel they should have reported it.
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Old 12-12-2007, 10:44 AM
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I read the story again,Dannie.

I'm still not sure what it says other than she doesn't feel they should have reported it.
i think her article had more to do with trying to get espn to not jump so quickly to conclusions, since the miles story was one of three she mentioned. seems she wants them to go more for accuracy than speed.

hey, i don't have an issue with herbstreit, this one time is the only story i know of in which he seemingly jumped the gun.
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i think her article had more to do with trying to get espn to not jump so quickly to conclusions, since the miles story was one of three she mentioned. seems she wants them to go more for accuracy than speed.

hey, i don't have an issue with herbstreit, this one time is the only story i know of in which he seemingly jumped the gun.

Well we don't know. I believe he got it from where he said...maybe not....but I believe he did.


It seems the reporting of it blew the timing up.So one view could be he jumped te gun...but I do believe he felt he had good stuff.
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Old 12-12-2007, 10:52 AM
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I think if you really look at this......LSU made it public that Michigan asked for ( and received) permission to talk to Miles about the Michigan job.That'd be the only job mentioned in his LSU contract finding it necessary for Miles to give LSU 1.25 mill. should he jump to Michigan.This is because Michigan is Miles' number one desire as he is Michigans'. This is no news.

No stay with me on this..............is it very hard to connect a line from this sequence of fact and lead it to contract negotiations?


Do you really think Herbstreit just made his report up out of chocolate pudding??

The guy with the million plus dollar sports analyst/game commentater job?
the monday after herbstreit's report mike tirico opened his radio show by backing herbstreit. tirico went on to say they he knew herbstreit's source and it was trusted. tirico went on, that he had recieved a call from one of his sources, that miles was leaving, so he stood behind herbstreit.
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