How Les Miles Screwed Us: Darron Thomas (Oregon QB)

In one of the recent issues of Sports Illustrated there was an article talking about Oregon and it mentioned how Darron Thomas was an LSU commit. Now I knew that at one point he was a commit but I was not aware of why he left. Here's why:

Darron Thomas was a solid LSU commit but was worried that the LSU staff would try to change his position from quarterback to something else because he is an exceptional athlete. Before Darron met Miles on his game day visit in 2007, his high school coach specifically told Miles to not call Darron an athlete because he wanted to play quarterback. Later when Miles and Darron spoke, the first thing Miles told Darron was how great of an athlete he was. His highschool coach said after that Darron was done with LSU and decommited shortly after and later signed with Oregon.

Miles screwed us by losing that quarterback. Anyone who has watched a single Oregon game this season can tell he is a exceptional quarterback and is what we missed out on at LSU. Miles the great recruiter everyone!