Rules of life are silly and misleading and conveniently ignore the complexities of actual life but here’s one we should all be able to agree on:
If you run the Kansas football program, winner of six Big 12 football games in the last decade, and you have the chance to hire someone who has both a pulse and a national championship, you hire that human and ask questions later.
Therefore, the question isn’t whether hiring Les Miles is a good decision.
The question is if it’s good enough to save a program that’s been all but slaughtered by lack of support, indifferent culture, horrible coaching, and — most of all — a long history of self-destructive decisions by university administrators.