Should Michigan even want Les Miles? Methinks no.

Let’s visit his coaching stumbles this year:

1. Why not start with the loss? Triple overtime against Kentucky. Benjamin Franklin said the definition of insanity is the doing same thing over and over and expecting different results. Miles decides to run the ball up the middle (with a white guy nonetheless) four straight times, and Kentucky wins the ball game.

2. Auburn. My memory is a bit fuzzy because I had a sick afternoon hangover from the Miami vs Florida State game, but I remember Les Miles calling for a deep pass with barely any time left, while down by one point, when all they needed was a field goal to win the game. Granted, they won the game, but the consistent bad calls show up.

3. Arkansas. I’m not going to complain about Dorsey not being on the field for the majority of the end of the game, because at this point, I don’t know whether or not he was injured, but I can call Miles out on a few awful calls in this game. First of all, with just over two minutes left, LSU had 4th and 1 at around the 50, and they call a play action throw to the left that may have been behind the line of scrimmage. Whatever, they got it.

Then, with 55 seconds left in the game, they have third and goal with three timeouts left. . .at this point, the game is coming down to these next two downs. Miles is running onto the field, breaking his f-cking wrists to call timeouts, on both third and fourth down, giving Arkansas time to have a chance to win it.

Miles, let the 25 seconds run down, then call your time outs, so you have about 15 seconds left for your final two plays. Thankfully, Arkansas is a one man band and even McFadden wasn’t enough to give them a last second field goal to win the game in regulation.

The bottom line is that Miles has a team full of a ton of seniors who shoud’ve coasted to the National Championship this year, but with games against Auburn and Florida, he’s looking at a possible 8-4 season. Yeah, the SEC is the best conference in football, and if you argue against that, then you’re just trying to force your favorite team’s conference into the mix. For some reason, everyone thinks Miles is a god. But the truth of the matter is that he’s only in the talks for the Michigan job because a clause in his contract proves that he wants job. I think he’s going to get it, but I think he’ll be a disappoint. Nothing could be worse than Lloyd Carr, so it may be a minor improvement, but Miles isn’t the guy for the job. On the flip side, the Big 10 is a butt awful conference, so even someone with as little coaching experience as my grandmother could run the table, but Miles just isn’t that great.

PS I’m drunk as I post this.