http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?s...&type=lgns
"His (Lloyd's)
decision when to announce his retirement will tell you all you need to know about his true support of Miles succeeding him. Since neither man is talking, all we have is fun speculation.
Publicly, no one knows their true relationship. It may be good. It may not.
Miles lettered under Bo Schembechler in 1974-75 and was an assistant coach at U of M from 1980-81 and 1987-94, right alongside Lloyd Carr. But when Carr got the head coaching job in 1995, Miles promptly left to be an assistant at Oklahoma State, a less than lateral move.
If Carr wants to help Miles get the Michigan job, then he'd wait until January, after the BCS title game, to call it quits. Then the entire thing is seamless.
If he wants to hurt Miles' chances, then he announces his retirement within the next week.
That would put Miles in a brutal position and quite possibly eliminate him as a candidate. While coaches often switch jobs in the lull before the bowl season, no one has ever left a team before the title game. Even if you were crazy enough to do it, the move would probably kill you in recruiting forever.
In one quick announcement, Carr could whack the guy in a number of different ways.
Carr must know all of this. He knows how coaches think. He knows Les Miles. He knows why he has a great job. And he knows that, even if he isn't allowed to hand-pick his successor (and who knows, maybe he will be) there are other ways to influence who is going to follow him.
So if there is no announcement in the next week – either retirement or a promise to return for 2008 – then it stands to reason Carr wants Miles.
If he calls it quits, then the rumors of his preferred candidates being either Carolina Panthers defensive coordinator Mike Trgovac, who played for U of M 1977-80, or Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz take on added value."
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Everytime Kirk Ferentz's name gets brought up for the Michigan job, Baby Jesus cries.
Anyway, I agree with the crux of the article. Lloyd has to be pretty-well aware that if he announced on Monday, he's essentially [censored] Miles.
Trogvac's name has been brought up in the past; I forgot to mention him in my previous posts on the coaching search. I also didn't mention Cam Cameron, another former Bo assistant. I doubt he'd leave the Dolphins, especially this early into his tenure there, but there is precedent for that kind of thing:
Anyone upset with Michigan's propensity for staid offenses would probably enjoy Cameron, who's known as an offensive guru; we all know how the last "zomg offensive genius" who made the transition from the NFL to college worked out. Plus, his Indiana teams were pretty bad. So color me skeptical.