My family has known Bill Martin for years. I don't believe him to be a stupid man, in fact I believe him to be a very good business man and a person that would do whats best for Michigan.
With that said, I believe Bill is way over his head in this coaching search (if you can call it that). In his tenure as the AD at Michigan, he has gotten a solid basketball coach (give him time everyone - TA didn't leave much talent) and kept one of the best college baseball coaches.
Trying to fill the head coaching job at Michigan is a beast all it's own. Everyone has their own opinion on who should be the next head coach. But the consensus is that Les Miles, wanted this job more then anyone on the planet. I could give a rat's ass about whether Les and Lloyd get along. Who cares? Lloyd has been a dead man walking for 5 years and his teams have played like that. In fact, I like that Les didn't always agree with Lloyd. We need change and new ideas or we are headed the way of ND or Nebraska.
The reports are now coming in that Bill was on vacation this past weekend. You have to be kidding me? He was in Florida and turned his cell phone off, didn't' watch TV, and just took some time to relax? So what do you make of that? Either, Bill took the short bus to work last week or Michigan didn't ever really want Les and Bill thought it was ok to take in some sunshine.
Now everyone is pissed. Over 500 emails and faxes have been sent from former players and alums on how things went down this weekend. Billy is now in hot water. It's one thing to not be interested in a Head Coach that coached and played at Michigan, won the SEC, and now is in the National Championship game against Michigan's rival OSU. It's another to look really bad in the process. Yes, from the looks of it, Billy was asleep at the wheel or maybe better yet, asleep on the sailboat. Perception is Reality and the reality is Bill Martin looks pretty foolish.
Billy you have some explaining to do!
Can this be fixed?
Maybe. It will take a huge splash like getting Miles after all or hiring someone like Urban Myer (no chance) or maybe someone like Chris Petersen from Boise State. The leader in the club house Kirk Ferentz is not going to heal anything. If Bill were to go with someone like Debord, you better buy stock in Home Depot because they will be sold out of flares and pitch forks.
Bill, I would suggest doing some interviews and get on with this process. Feel free to go sailing on January 1 around 1:00pm. I'm pretty sure Michigan isn't doing anything important that day.
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