The Michigan football team was practically left for dead after last year’s 52-14 loss to Mississippi State in the Gator Bowl.
It wasn’t long before coach Rich Rodriguez was given the gate and athletic director Dave Brandon began searching the country for a new football coach.
Still fresh in the minds of Michigan fans was the botched attempt at hiring LSU’s coach just three years earlier. This time around, Les Miles and Stanford’s Jim Harbaugh were the leading candidates.
But waiting in the…
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