BATON ROUGE, La. -- Les Miles turned down an offer to coach at his alma mater, Michigan, in 2011. So says former LSU athletic director Skip Bertman.
"Les Miles turned that job down for more money at Michigan. He turned it down," Bertman said Tuesday during a two-hour interview on the "Sports Today" radio show on Baton Rouge's ESPN Radio affiliate, 104.5 FM. "He would never say that because he's a very humble guy. But I was there, he turned it down."
Will-he-or-won't-he Michigan rumors surrounded Miles' LSU tenure for many years, with his name popping up each time the Wolverines had a coaching vacancy.