Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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GAME PREVIEW: LSU games, I think there are a lot of fans that give him a pass for not winning a championship now three straight years. What they did in 2011 was pretty good. "With every passing year, 2011 gets further and further away. I think a lot of fans around here believe the last two or three seasons since then have been a plateau. There's a contingent of fans that want Les Miles to leave or be fired. There's no doubt about it. … Others know it's pretty hard to replace a coach who wins 10 games a year. There's a mix." As is the case every time Michigan has a coaching vacancy — the Wol‑ verines fired Brady Hoke following the regular season and will employ a fourth head coach in nine seasons next year — Miles' name gets mentioned of‑ ten. He played offensive line at Michi‑ gan in the 1970s and was an assistant there for parts of the 1980s and 1990s. Dellenger expects Miles to decline the position for the third time if the Wolverines reach out again. "They've flirted with each other a little bit [in the past]," Dellenger said. "I think everybody expects them to make some sort of run at Les Miles. I just don't expect Les Miles to make a run at them. He's 61, he's got two of his four kids still here in junior high and high school. He's a big family guy. I don't know if he'd uproot the family." An important factor in Miles' ex‑ pected decision to stay — the young talent and the bright future. "He just signed the No. 2 class in the nation last year and that's the class he's said multiple times will win the national title," Dellenger said. "There's just a lot of different things, I think there's so many more things for him to stay than there are for him to go. I would be pretty surprised if he goes to Michigan." ✦ 2014 LSU SCHEDULE Date Opponent (TV) Result/Time (ET) Aug. 30 vs. Wisconsin* W, 28‑24 Sept. 6 Sam Houston State W, 56‑0 Sept. 13 Louisiana‑Monroe W, 31‑0 Sept. 20 Mississippi State L, 34‑29 Sept. 27 New Mexico State W, 63‑7 Oct. 4 at Auburn L, 41‑7 Oct. 11 at Florida W, 30‑27 Oct. 18 Kentucky W, 41‑3 Oct. 25 Ole Miss W, 10‑7 Nov. 8 Alabama L, 20‑13 (OT) Nov. 15 at Arkansas L, 17‑0 Nov. 27 at Texas A&M W, 23‑17 Dec. 30 vs. Notre Dame $ (ESPN) 3 p.m. *at NRG Stadium in Houston; $ Music City Bowl at LP Field in Nashville, Tenn. 2014 NOTRE DAME SCHEDULE Date Opponent (TV) Result/Time (ET) Aug. 30 Rice W, 48‑17 Sept. 6 Michigan W, 31‑0 Sept. 13 vs. Purdue* W, 30‑14 Sept. 27 vs. Syracuse^ W, 31‑15 Oct. 4 Stanford W, 17‑14 Oct. 11 North Carolina W, 50‑43 Oct. 18 at Florida State L, 31‑27 Nov. 1 vs. Navy+ W, 49‑39 Nov. 8 at Arizona State L, 55‑31 Nov. 15 Northwestern L, 43‑40 (OT) Nov. 22 Louisville L, 31‑28 Nov. 29 at USC L, 49‑14 Dec. 30 vs. LSU $ (ESPN) 3 p.m. *at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis; ^ at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.; + at FedEx Field in Landover, Md.; $ Music City Bowl at LP Field in Nashville, Tenn.