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Les Miles (grass eater)

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If a recruit wants to leave Louisiana, Les Miles says 'to hell with him'

Les Miles has been feeling good this week after securing yet another top recruiting class (No. 5 in the 247Sports Composite). Any time a coach cleans up on the recruiting trail, there is a noticeable bump in confidence during public appearances.

Miles, as he does, has been winning interviews throughout the week, first disclosing his daughter's former crush on Brady Quinn during CBSSports.com/247Sports Signing Day Live and then, according to Instagram, delivering a message to the top talent in Louisiana at an event later in the day.

If a high school football player wants to leave Louisiana without going to LSU , Miles says, "to hell with them."

And the crowd erupts.

Entire article: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo...ave-louisiana-les-miles-says-to-hell-with-him
 
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Probably going to have to ask Nutria to provide more details, but the SEC really hammered LSU this week for a signing (not recruiting violation). I'll try to explain:

1). The two most important documents that recruits sign with colleges are the national letter of intent or NLI (which binds the kid to the college) and the FAA or scholarship papers (which binds the college to the kid).

2). In 2013, the NCAA Changed a rule for commits who want to enroll early. Basically, once the young man signs the FAA, the coaches have unlimited contact with him, can comment on his prospects, spring position training...etc
Why would a kid sign this? Because it locks the school into honoring his scholarship. AND a recruit can sign as many FAA's as possible.

3). In 2014 the NCAA issued the following update: If a senior signed more than one financial aid agreement, only the first college he signed with would have the benefits of unlimited contact and publicity

In summary, LSU had a young man sign an FAA, started commenting about him and exercising the "unlimited contact" - the kid goes elsewhere and BOOM, the school gets hammered.
http://recruiting.blog.ajc.com/2015/02/27/5632/


The SEC reported LSU to the NCAA but also levied the following sanction: The SEC (not the NCAA) banned LSU for two years from signing kids that enroll early to a FAA, along with stripping the Tigers of 10 percent of their evaluation days in 2015 (21 of 210 days)


A big, stinky mess.
 
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BigWoof31 said:
Probably going to have to ask Nutria to provide more details, but the SEC really hammered LSU this week for a signing (not recruiting violation). I'll try to explain:

1). The two most important documents that recruits sign with colleges are the national letter of intent or NLI (which binds the kid to the college) and the FAA or scholarship papers (which binds the college to the kid).

2). In 2013, the NCAA Changed a rule for commits who want to enroll early. Basically, once the young man signs the FAA, the coaches have unlimited contact with him, can comment on his prospects, spring position training...etc
Why would a kid sign this? Because it locks the school into honoring his scholarship. AND a recruit can sign as many FAA's as possible.

3). In 2014 the NCAA issued the following update: If a senior signed more than one financial aid agreement, only the first college he signed with would have the benefits of unlimited contact and publicity

In summary, LSU had a young man sign an FAA, started commenting about him and exercising the "unlimited contact" - the kid goes elsewhere and BOOM, the school gets hammered.
http://recruiting.blog.ajc.com/2015/02/27/5632/


The SEC reported LSU to the NCAA but also levied the following sanction: The SEC (not the NCAA) banned LSU for two years from signing kids that enroll early to a FAA, along with stripping the Tigers of 10 percent of their evaluation days in 2015 (21 of 210 days)

A big, stinky mess.
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Wait...So LSU was the first school he signed the FAA with? Why is that a problem for them, then? They had the right to comment on him, correct?
 
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My reason for posting it was not to blast LSU, it certainly seems like they weren't underhanded or sneaky in their handling of this.

However, alot of BP posters are big advocates of the 4 year scholarship for young men who sign with you on NLI day.
I would imagine you have some partners in your cause in Baton Rouge these days.
 
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BigWoof31 said:
Probably going to have to ask Nutria to provide more details, but the SEC really hammered LSU this week for a signing (not recruiting violation). I'll try to explain:

1). The two most important documents that recruits sign with colleges are the national letter of intent or NLI (which binds the kid to the college) and the FAA or scholarship papers (which binds the college to the kid).

2). In 2013, the NCAA Changed a rule for commits who want to enroll early. Basically, once the young man signs the FAA, the coaches have unlimited contact with him, can comment on his prospects, spring position training...etc
Why would a kid sign this? Because it locks the school into honoring his scholarship. AND a recruit can sign as many FAA's as possible.

3). In 2014 the NCAA issued the following update: If a senior signed more than one financial aid agreement, only the first college he signed with would have the benefits of unlimited contact and publicity

In summary, LSU had a young man sign an FAA, started commenting about him and exercising the "unlimited contact" - the kid goes elsewhere and BOOM, the school gets hammered.
http://recruiting.blog.ajc.com/2015/02/27/5632/


The SEC reported LSU to the NCAA but also levied the following sanction: The SEC (not the NCAA) banned LSU for two years from signing kids that enroll early to a FAA, along with stripping the Tigers of 10 percent of their evaluation days in 2015 (21 of 210 days)

A big, stinky mess.
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SEC honks must have decided that LSU might pose an on-field threat to 'Bama this year.
 
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Sounds fishy. Probably watching too much House of Cards but I'd bet on the SEC doing some back-channeling with the NCAA. Public admission of a less serious infraction with a punishment that doesn't seem to fit the crime, to cover the more serious infraction while appeasing the NCAA.

THOSE CHEATING BASTARDS
 
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it's a shitty rule, but we knew the risk involved and got burned by it.


basically if you have even the slightest doubt whether or not a kid will ultimately sign with you, you better stick to normal visit rules even after signing the FAA.

if it's illegal to contact the kid depending on if he signs an LOI, then why not just remove the "unlimited contact" portion of the rule and keep all normal rules in place FAA or no FAA.
 
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Amusing story, hope the kid does well at UNC....

Les Miles’ son, a QB, commits to play football for… the Tar Heels

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Les Miles‘ son, Manny, is supposedly a fairly decent, albeit injury-plagued college football prospect at the quarterback position. Miles, a former Michigan football player, admitted last summer that he’d like to see his son follow in his Ann Arbor footsteps. He also allowed that he’d like to see his son in Baton Rouge, to which Manny, when asked under what circumstances he’d go to LSU, replied “none.”

Fast-forward nearly a year, and the younger Miles has made a collegiate choice, and it doesn’t involve either the Wolverines or the Tigers.

In an interview with the Baton Rouge Advocate, Manny Miles confirmed that he will play his college football at North Carolina. Miles’ son stated that he will enter the Tar Heels football program as a preferred walk-on and will be on the UNC roster for the 2015 season.

The son said that his decision came after visiting the Chapel Hill campus earlier this month — and after some sage advice from dear ol’ dad.

“My mom and I went up there to visit a couple of weeks ago, and I just loved everything about it,” Miles said of the UNC campus. “When I got home, my dad asked me to sleep on it. He wanted to make sure I wasn’t making a decision because I’d just visited there. I slept on it for about two weeks, and I knew that was still where I wanted to go.”

There’s also a chance Miles could be a two-sport player at UNC as he was an all-state baseball player.

Miles didn’t receive any stars as a 2015 recruit from Rivals.com, although his health may have played at least a partial role in that.
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Interestingly, in a separate interview with the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the younger Miles acknowledged that Michigan was a strong consideration in his mind… until Jim Harbaugh was hired as UM’s new head coach.:lol:

“I was really thinking about Michigan,” he said. “But when they got a new coaching staff, conversation stopped and never picked back up.”

Entire article: http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...b-commits-to-play-football-for-the-tar-heels/

Just sayin': He isn't going to be on scholarship at UNC and Miles can afford the tuition at just about any school; I think if he has the grades I would have steered him to a school with a better reputation for academics (i.e. maybe in the Ivy League).
 
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jwinslow said:
I know you like to be different, but finding intrigue in the arrival of a Purdue castoff at the graveyard of quarterbacks is a remarkable commitment to the role.
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My point is that Miles has a record of failing to develop QBs, and Etling has been discarded by the dregs of the B1G. Sorry you find this so meaningless, but I think it will be fascinating to watch. If Etling wins the competition to be the 2016 LSU QB, what does that say about LSU's quarterback recruiting? Conversely if he finds himself buried in the depth chart, what does it mean about a guy who at one point was the best Purdue had to put on the field?

Actually, Etling looked to me like a pretty good prospect when he first took the field for the Boilers, but he appeared to regress. If he can thrive under Miles, it will be a surprise, but an interesting one.
 
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