What type of job do you think he is going to get? The guy is 63 years old and had every advantage a coach could want at LSU and did not win enough to keep his job there. If he can pull in top 5 recruiting classes at LSU and not win enough, how in the hell is he going to win a bunch at Purdue coaching mainly 3 star recruits?
The rumor is that Miles does have at least some level of interest in the job but frankly the idea doesn't seem to be very well received among the fan base. You guys are pretty condescending in this thread towards Purdue and maybe that's because our program has been in the dumps since you joined the Big Ten but historically it's more of a middle-of-the-pack program with a strong history of producing NFL quarterbacks. It's not nearly as bad as is being made out by many here.
The guy who mentioned Mike Leach has the right idea although I'm doubtful we can pull him from Washington State. Similar job but he's already put in all the rebuilding work to get that program up on its feet. He might as well stay around and reap the rewards of that and try to parlay that to get a position like Oregon if he can. He is who we should have went out and hired when he was available but apparently there was too much controversy with how he left Texas Tech for our last AD to look at.
Anyway, they need to be looking at people who can bring a dynamic and/or innovative passing attack back to Purdue. When Purdue has been able to compete in the upper half of the conference, that's how they've always done it in the past. It was a stated objective the last time we were hiring a coach and yet somehow Morgan Burke ended up with Hazell.
