🏈 Gil Brandt reports Coach Cut turns down Michigan offer?

[TerryP]

This isn't a knock on the situation Michigan is in now, at least that's how I see this, but more of a call Cut made with regard to his health and job situation. Sometimes a higher profile job isn't necessarily a better job...depending on the situation.

 

[planomateo]

 

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1. Ross Dellenger ✔ @DellengerAdv
   [H#U AD Joe Alleva tells our @RabalaisAdv that [H#chigan nor Les Miles' agent has contacted him.
   

angelique @chengelis

Was told UM reached out to agent, but haven't confirmed w agent MT @DellengerAdv: LSU AD Alleva says UM nor Miles' agent has contacted him.

 

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Michigan coaching search: U-M reaches out to Jay Gruden's representatives, according to RealGM report
By Joshua S. Henschke  @JoshuaHenschke on Dec 8 2014, 1:51p

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According to a report from RealGM's Jeff Risdon, Michigan has reportedly reached out to current Washington Redskin coach Jay Gruden.

The rumors of potential replacements for Brady Hoke keep swirling.

It's clear that the University of Michigan is looking at current NFL head coach Jim Harbaugh, a former player under Bo Schembechler, to be the savior of the program. However, it appears that U-M could also be looking at another currently employed NFL coach as well.

According to RealGM's Jeff Risdon, U-M has apparently reached out to the representatives of Washington Redskins head coach Jay Gruden.

"One source I trust tipped me off to a potential landing spot for Gruden: The University of Michigan," reported Risdon in his weekly $.10 column. "This source, who is intimately familiar with the Wolverines' rapidly emerging coaching search, informed me on Thursday that initial contact has been made between the parties and that Gruden's representation was enthusiastically open to the potential."

It appears that interim athletic director Jim Hackett is prepared to swing for the fences in his pursuit of Harbaugh, with the chances he heads back to Ann Arbor growing slim, it would make sense for U-M to look for back-up options.

Is a Gruden in Ann Arbor likely? Risdon says it's hard to tell.

"I can't put a figure on the likelihood of Gruden fleeing to Ann Arbor," he wrote. "Another UM source I trust refused to confirm anything I asked, but it's an interesting leverage point nonetheless."

Interesting leverage point or not, the on-field product the Redskins have been displaying won't exactly translate to U-M fan excitement if Gruden is the choice.

 

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Reports: Michigan contacts Les Miles' agent to gauge interest
By Jerry Hinnen | College Football Writer

December 10, 2014

Les Miles has plenty of Ann Arbor connections. (USATSI)
Multiple outlets reported Tuesday that Michigan has contacted LSU 's Les Miles to gauge the former Wolverines lineman's interest in potentially returning to Ann Arbor as Brady Hoke's replacement.


Scout affiliate Go Blue Wolverine reported that Michigan "reached out to the agent" of Miles, with 247Sports affiliate Wolverines247 adding that contact had been made"according to sources in both Baton Rouge and on the Michigan side."

LSU athletic director Joe Alleva told the Baton Rouge Advocate on Tuesday that he had not been contacted by anyone at Michigan, though he also said recently that such initial contact rarely involved athletic directors in the current coaching search climate. Miles' agent has not yet responded to the Advocate's request for comment.

A former Michigan player under Bo Schembecler with two Wolverines coaching stints on his resume, Miles has been connected to the head coaching job at Michigan in both 2007 (when reports claimed he had accepted it) and again in 2010. Initial offshore coaching odds last week listed Miles as the second-most-likely candidate to become Michigan's next coach, behind only Jim Harbaugh.

Reports from Tuesday also claimed that Michigan had made initial contact with Duke's David Cutcliffe, though a Duke spokesman told Sports Illustrated on Wednesday that neither Cutcliffe nor Duke nor even their "third party" representatives had spoken to anyone from Michigan.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...an-contacts-les-miles-agent-to-gauge-interest