re: Should Joe Barksdale be benched??? ( no attacks, please )

IMHO, if I was L.M., J.B. and myself would have a heart to heart talk and the truth would be revealed. And as the H.C. of this team, if I was L.M., I'd make that decision. Not some board sites opinion? There will be more garbage, potty mouth idiots jumping on crap like this, it makes it preposterous.

Absit invidia, ab initio ridiculosus.

It's normally the case with high risk/high reward positions. That's why so many people quit in their first couple of years and why entry level salaries and/or hours are so awful in most cases.

I agree with the last post. In my job field we call it threat & error management. Barksdale is the threat to the team, and him not being happy at LSU can cause the team to suffer with his attitude. Miles should have a heart to heart with the man which iam pretty sure Miles did and if he is still not happy then the man needs to be release from his commitment to LSU. Since he is a starter give Barksdale the choice to either stay or leave. If he leaves then good bye, and thank you for giving us another scholly for someone who wants to be a TIGER. If he decides to stay then that man needs to prove that he deserve to be in a TIGER Uniform.

by not punishing this kind of behavior, you are basically endorsing it.

Having those kind of feelings and attitude is fine and dandy, but if you are a high profile player, journalist, spokesperson etc, you have a obligation to uphold an image. You have a responsibility to the people you represent. This could be very damaging from the position he is in. I could say all day long that "lsu was the bigest mistake of my life".

He can tell his friends, familly. But this made it's way to ESPN. The worldwide leader in sports.

I wonder how many RECRUITS watch college football live?

I also wonder if it is true at all? How much negative recruiting is out there? We don't really know what happened. A booster from another school could have hacked it, and sent it to espn.

And don't tell me it's not possible.

Just remember we are talking about the idiot phenomenon known as Twitter..."Look at me everyone syndrome".

We have become obsessed with fame and people taking notice of our every words and emotions. I get so sick of people on Facebook with all of their "I hate my life" bullshite comments (why I might just get rid of mine and have zero social sites at all). Twitter is just another example of abuse of thought in a young mind. Barksdale and others need to stop that shite. It messes with recruiting worse than any of us on Td.com could even think about with our posts.

Les supporting the team at the CWS was great. Les on Twitter was borderline stupid. I realize we are in the 21st century, but coaches need to stop advocating for this nuisance of technology. Barksdale and others use Twitter the same way e-badasses come on and cuss out other "user names". It's out of hand.

Barksdale, have a seat.