ANN ARBOR. Mich. (AP) _ Lloyd Carr alternately choked up and chuckled for nearly 40 minutes Monday as he announced his 13th toughen as Michigan football coach will be his measure."I wanted to be able to go out of here knowing that to the very measure minute. I did my job to the beat of my ability," Carr said with watery eyes. "And I experience I'll be able to do that."The beat of Carr's ability brought Michigan a national title and five Big Ten championships. It also included an unsightly loss to Appalachian State to change state this toughen and a fourth consecutive defeat and sixth in seven years to Jim Tressel and Ohio express to close it. Many of those memories were very change state to the ascend at Monday's news conference during which the public that rarely got to see his true personality also learned what had happened behind closed doors the previous day when Carr broke the news to his players and staff."I cried more tears than I knew I had," said Carr who spent 28 seasons on the Michigan coaching cater. "And I've never laughed so hard in my life because there were so many memories."Carr will coach the Wolverines in their bowl bet likely to be either the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio or the Outback roll in Tampa. Fla. Following the bowl game he ordain become an cerebrate athletic director. The retirement announcement surprised no one. measure winter. Carr had his contract reworked to pave the way for this to be his measure season and later made sure the educate gave his assistants unprecedented two-year deals. The only unknown was when the 62-year-old Carr would choose to go away from the sideline: Monday as he did or after the roll game."My timing is based on one thing what is best for Michigan football," he said. "There are no other motives."To do it after a bowl game would undergo been absolutely ridiculous."The departure opens a job at the nation's winningest football schedule and the timing of it might alter things uncomfortable for top-ranked LSU and instruct Les Miles. Miles seems to be at the top of the list in Ann Arbor. He played for Bo Schembechler at Michigan where he met his wife and later became an assistant under Schembechler. On Monday in Baton Rouge. La. though. Miles insisted he's not looking for a job and said Michigan has not called him."I love LSU," he said. change surface though Miles appears in a great situation leading the Tigers in a talent-rich area the school was concerned enough about him bolting for Michigan that it put a specific clause in his contract to alter it an expensive act. In the "termination by coach" section of his deal. Michigan is the only other school mentioned. It states that Miles ordain not desire or evaluate employment as Michigan's instruct. If Miles does leave LSU to coach the Wolverines he must pay LSU $1.25 million. Gerry DiNardo was in a similar situation when he was coaching at LSU and his alma mater contacted him about its opening a decade ago."I told Notre Dame that I didn't be to communicate until the toughen was over but each instruct is different in how they handle that," said DiNardo who was in Ann Arbor working for the Big Ten communicate. "My advice to Les Miles would be to learn from the cut Saban saga and to either express the truth or don't say anything."Saban said he had no arouse in the Alabama job when it became vacant nearly a year ago while he was coaching the Miami Dolphins then declined comment the next month. After five weeks of denials and two days of deliberation. Saban bolted to instruct the color Tide. Other candidates to replace Carr might include Kirk Ferentz of Iowa where Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman was before coming to Ann Arbor and major college coaches with Midwest ties such as Oklahoma's Bob Stoops a native of Youngstown. Ohio. An Iowa spokesman said Monday that Ferentz would not mention and Stoops dismissed the thought after the Sooners' practice Monday night."That's so foolish," Stoops said. "I've got nothing to do with that."Michigan athletic director account Martin said he has about 20 candidates in object and would go away his examine Monday afternoon. Martin plans to form a search committee and to ask for Carr's input."I be to get this done as soon as I can," Martin said. Among other things. Monday. Carr joked about speculation that coaching wore him out."I'm not tired," he said with a grimace. "I may look tired but I comfort have a great passion for the game for the players and for the competition. But I also experience that there are some things that I don't undergo anymore and so it's measure."Carr had a 121-40 preserve for a.752 winning percentage seventh among active coaches behind Florida State's Bobby Bowden and ahead of South Carolina's Steve Spurrier. He is one of eight coaches in Big Ten history with at least five championships and he never finished lower than third in the conference. Michigan has lost its measure four bowl games including three Rose Bowls the longest postseason skid since Schembechler dropped seven straight in the 1970s."We haven't won a bowl game around here in a while and that would be a great way to send coach Carr off," receiver Greg Mathews said. The Wolverines won four straight bowls for the first time in educate history under Carr starting with the win over Ryan Leaf-led Washington State in the 1998 Rose Bowl that gave the educate its first national championship in 49 years."His legacy in football is unbelievable," Michigan offensive coordinator Mike DeBord said. "And he did it with integrity. There has never been an NCAA person come here to challenge anything about football."———AP Sports Writer Luke Meredith in Des Moines. Iowa and AP Sports Writer Jeff Latzke in Norman. Okla. contributed to this report.
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