How about the Mad Hatter as this article suggests? One of the few remaining coaches from the Schembechler coaching tree:
[h=1]Big changes coming for the Wolverines
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Gregory Shamus/Getty ImagesDevin Funchess and the Wolverines were roughed up by the visiting Utes on Saturday.
Quarterback
Devin Gardner will be the first change for the
Michigan Wolverines.
Coach Brady Hoke will be the second, and probably by December.
Athletic director Dave Brandon will be the next, and probably shortly after Hoke.
It’s time to start over at Michigan. There’s no “fixing it” in the middle of the season. Losing at home -- and being dominated at home -- by Utah signals the denouement,
as I wrote earlier in the week. The end is near.
“Utah’s a good team -- tough, physical, well-coached,” a Pac-12 coach said Saturday afternoon, “but Michigan can’t lose at home to Utah. You’re Michigan.”
The offense again didn’t score a point, again didn’t reach the red zone against a Power 5 opponent. (It didn’t against Notre Dame, either.)
There’s a deep culture of blah at Michigan, and it has prevailed since last November. It starts with a faulty offensive line, which undermines even a seemingly talented runner like
Derrick Green and forces its quarterback into poor decisions. That’s why backup
Shane Morris, whenever his number is called, will offer no more solutions than Gardner. It’s still September, yes, but Michigan’s season is doomed.
With Green (the No. 38 overall prospect in 2013) as an example, it’s not as if the Wolverines are bereft of talent. They had RecruitingNation’s No. 6 class in 2013, and No. 5 class in 2012. Shouldn’t those players be hitting their stride about now? If not, why not?
The situation reminds me of Auburn when it was clear that Gene Chizik needed to go (apart from the fact that Michigan has no title year to hang its hat on). Highly ranked recruiting classes yielded little to no results. When the program started to lose the fan base and future recruits, that’s when it made the move.
Hoke is a seemingly good guy, but Michigan will soon do the same. It has no choice, because it will only get worse. Even the next three games -- Minnesota, Rutgers and Penn State -- suddenly look rife with peril.
That’s where the Week 4 takeaways begin. Later: Why Jeff Long, Condi Rice, et al, should send a gift basket to Clemson, South Carolina; Texas A&M will now resume its regularly scheduled schedule; Florida (and LSU and Clemson) needs to give its freshman QB a shot; Oklahoma’s best back emerged in Morgantown.
[h=3]Where will Michigan's administration turn?[/h]
Like late last year, Jim Harbaugh is a name you’ll hear. But the NFL wormhole very rarely works in reverse, and never with coaches who are having success at the pro level. So that’s fantasy stuff.
But Les Miles? There’s some smoke to that one.
A friend of the Hatter’s told me last fall that if the Michigan job again became available, he could see the timing being right this time.
“I could see him finishing there,” Miles' friend said. “Yeah, I could see that happening. If he’s going anywhere, it’s there.”
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Troy Taormina/USA TODAY SportsIt's possible that we will see Les Miles prowling the Michigan sidelines in the future.
Those close to the program say Miles loves Louisiana, but he sometimes feels unloved -- or at least underappreciated -- by those in Louisiana. He just lost a home game to Mississippi State for the first time this millennium. Another loss or two by November, and Miles (now 98-25 at LSU) might really feel taken for granted.
Michigan, meanwhile, would put grass down in the Big House if it would woo Les.
“That would throw the college football landscape for a loop!” a Power 5 head coach texted Saturday night.
It would, yes. LSU couldn’t wrangle Kirby Smart from Alabama, could it? That wouldn’t be part of Nick Saban’s process.
On the other end of Saturday’s game in Baton Rouge, Dan Mullen’s agent should slyly slide his client’s business card across the table to Michigan. However Mississippi State fares the rest of this season, it’s likely this is the ceiling in Starkville. In the sport’s most difficult division, wins like Saturday’s are so precious. Win all you can, and get while the getting’s good, Mr. Mullen.
Every candidate for the Michigan job should have serious, pointed questions about administrative support. As much as the current state is about poor offensive numbers and losses, it’s about something larger: Coaches and administrators at other schools often talk to me about Michigan’s one-foot-in, one-foot-out approach to committing to football.
“You want to win? Spend the money to do it,” one AD said this summer. “You want to be about academics? Absolutely nothing wrong with that. Just pick a lane and go.”
