re: A Memo to Coach Les Miles - an appeal to show CHARACTER

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they expect the starter who is playing fine to get pulled after one bad game? and the subsequent starter to have multiple bad games and not get pulled? i missed seeing where "big-time" programs expect that..

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No, they expect backups to step in and play well. Doesn't necessarily make them the new starter.

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i think that his assessment that it wasn't fair to put JL in the game is BS and he knows it...

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I agree completely.
I, however, disagree that it shows a flaw in his CHARACTER. A man of low character would have said publicly what his reasons were for not playing Lee, in order to take heat off of himself. These reasons, by definition, would not be complementary towards Lee.

So we have guys on here calling our coach out on a CHARACTER issue simply because he is not publicly throwing a player under the bus. Look at the thread title.

Now, if you ask me if I think JJ is better than JL--- I do not think so.I would lean toward JL. But I also admit I have never watched a practice or sat in a meeting and all I have seen is JL play against teams that were defensively inferior to what JJ played against. So bottom line is I have no idea really.

I do not object to asking for Lee to have played. I do object to it being framed as a character issue, especially when choosing a horse at QB and riding it is pretty much standard procedure.