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.

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Posted by AlxTgr

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Posted on 8/4/10 at 4:08 pm to LSUMafia

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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.

Nah, you'd have Ego greyshirt.

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Posted by 1999

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Posted on 8/4/10 at 4:36 pm to LSUMafia

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spin the horrid timing of telling the kid 24 hrs before he starts Fall practice after 3 months of busting his arse w/ his teammates after having been promised a full ride for the '10 season

This.

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Posted by King Joey

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Posted on 8/5/10 at 2:40 am to LSUMafia

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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.

Are people seriously suggesting that Porter was unaware of the fact that LSU signed 27 players, or was unaware of the fact that there is limit of 25? The suggestion that any recruit at any school in the country that is part of a signing class bigger than 25 is caught "completely offguard" by the greyshirt situation is absolutely absurd. Do you think he wasn't capable of the math? He knew there was a possibility that two people would have to greyshirt. He never said that he was told he wouldn't be one of them. He found out that he was going to be one of them late in the game because no one knew that we would have to have two greyshirts until late in the game. And if he really was completely unaware of the greyshirting possibility (a claim he never made, by the way; he only claimed that he was not specifically warned personally about it ahead of time), then I am shocked he was able to academically qualify without the math skills to realize that 27>25.

What is hilarious to me is if another coach does exactly the same thing except that he doesn't even give him the option to greyshirt but rather just cuts him completely from the team, he gets lauded for his "team management" for handling the exact same situation in an even worse way.