re: Les Miles on Elliot Porter today...

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To those who dislike how CLM handled it...how would you have handled it?...just asking

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For starters I would have targeted 2 to 3 players that might be greyshirt candidates and let them know that if everyone is cleared, that x amount of people will need to be greyshirted. Second, I would have chosen one of the players that had trouble qualifying to be greyshirted. Would i rather have Gore than Porter? yes. But as far as I'm concerned you don't punish the kid that had everything in order from the get go and who has been on campus working. Building a program is a long game and I'd rather have a foundation of integrity. After all half the job is convincing parents that you are going to take care of their sons.

Those who think he handled it poorly most likely would have had agreements in place beforehand to avoid this type of circumstance. You prepare for the possible, no matter how unlikely it may seem to you.

This staff new since signing day that they were going to have to grayshirt two kids if everyone qualified. If they did not have any kids agree to it, then they should have told the two kids they were going to force to grayshirt, if push came to shove THEN that its their choice to take that potential option or go elsewhere.

It doesn't make Miles a douche, but it is still a douche move because he and the staff obviously didn't have their ducks in a row for this.