🏈 LSU QB Situation

[chevy0082]

Now that we know about the suspension... How do you guys think Miles will react? Kick him off the team or will he give him yet another chance?

 

[kudzu]

I don't think RP is going anywhere.
This is only my opinion but Miles may not be able to kick him off the team.

 

[Guest]

I don't think RP is going anywhere.
This is only my opinion but Miles may not be able to kick him off the team.

May not be able? What do you mean by that?

 

[crimsontradition14]

Yeah, why couldn't he kick him off the team?

 

[Swamptick]

I think they mean that other than RP there is not much of a decent qb at LSpoo

 

[crimsontradition14]

Oh okay, haha, thanks for clearing that up.

 

[chevy0082]

How many chances does the guy get though... I heard an interesting scenario this morning though..

What if Miles were to give him a 3 game suspension? That means you have him sitting against App. State, Troy and North Texas and then he comes back for the Auburn game...

If he stays on the team Miles is making it clear that him winning games is more imporant than discipline. Agreed?

 

[Guest]

How many chances does the guy get though... I heard an interesting scenario this morning though..

What if Miles were to give him a 3 game suspension? That means you have him sitting against App. State, Troy and North Texas and then he comes back for the Auburn game...

If he stays on the team Miles is making it clear that him winning games is more imporant than discipline. Agreed?

Generally I agree it is time for the hammer to come down, but this is not an easy issue.

Some examples: Joe Namath misbehaved in some manner around the Auburn game in 1963 (we lost). He was suspended for the rest of the season and made to move out of the athletic dorm. We managed to win the next two games versus Miami and then the Sugar Bowl against Ole Miss (the only sugar Bowl I know of where there was snow on the sidelines). He was allowed back and had a stellar senior year.

Snake Stabler was similarly booted in the off season between 1966 and 1967 and there was strong sentiment among the assistant coaches to boot him for good. He was allowed back, but started fall practice as 4th string quarterback. He woorked his way quickly back to number one and he also had a strong senior year.

Bryant, in acting as he did, had to balance what was best for the team with what was best for the individual, with trying to help these stars get there act together again.

Gene Stallings was more forgiving than many wanted him to be when David Palmer had two incidents pretty close together involving public drunkenness. Stallings was publicly asked why Palmer wasn't dismissed from the team, and his comment was that he was trying to help Palmer, and could help him a lot more with him on the team than off it.

The cynic would say that these players were allowed back because they were star players that the team needed. Whether that was true or the coaches had a more noble motivation I don't know, any more than I can know what Miles motivation is here. RP has been involved in a lot of well publicized incidents, but so far none of them have approached the level of the ones that Croom and Saban have dealt with in recent weeks by dismissal.

 

[BamaFan615]

Yea I highly doubt that RP gets kicked off the team. From all acounts it doesn't sound like the last two incidents have been that big of deals, but Miles decides to suspend him, instead of just keeping it in-house and running him or something else.

 

[chevy0082]

I understand trying to help a guy out but doesn't there come a point when the kid has to help himself.. There needs to come a time when you've had enough chances..

 

[Guest]

I agree, but you also need to consider the severity of the acts. It sounds like the last RP incident is right in there with some of the stuff our guys were in the news about back in the summer, with a lot of furor but not really amounting to much. I didn't have very good judgment when I was 18-21, but then I wasn't an athlete in the spotlight, so what I did stayed under the radar. It sounds like he really needs extra running, study halls, community service type things to help him get his perspective.

 

[Guest]

IMO, no matter what Miles does it will help the rest of the SEC West. If he boots RP then he is stuck with inexperienced QB's with lesser talent. If he keeps him then he tells the team there is no consequence for their actions and they slowly self-destruct. Either way I'm content.

 

[reger60]

Three or four wins and a dozen or so touchdowns into the season and nobody will remember any of this.

Assuming that is what happens...

 

[chevy0082]

He is not going anywhere and this will show you how big of an idiot Les Miles is..

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3328292


"To bring him back with only a couple of practices left would be unfair to him and to the guys who have been competing for the position the whole time. He will have full membership starting Sunday."

Unfair to him? ^^BSFLA

It is definitely unfair to the guys who have been there for all the practices and meetings and have put in the work.