re: To those of you criticizing Miles and His Word

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frick it guys...DB, if what has been reported is, He got fricked

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Reported by whom? Miles?

4444 said it was just like the Janzen Jackson situation. The Janzen Jackson situation includes a person openly making a committment, and then openly breaking it. I have yet to see Les Miles claim that he pulled Benton's offer. So we have one open admission of reneging on a committment, and one case of rumor claiming that a committment was reneged upon. And no one here has real knowlege of what that committment was or upon what it was based. We have no way of knowing if LSU pulled their offer; or if they did pull it, why. All we have is unsubstantiated rumors which some have (predictably) chosen to accept as the gospel truth of a negative indictment of Miles. If 4444 saw a dog turd on the street that looked like Miles making a mistake, he would report is as absolute indisputable fact and then prattle on about how everyone who disagrees with him wearing blinders or P&G glasses.

If you guys cannot see 4444's obvious irrational obsession with finding fault with Miles, then you really need to take a deep breath and reconnect with your senses. He will use (or make up) anything he can to make Miles look bad. He always has and he always will.

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Joey, what are you confused about?

I'm pretty sure SPorts2 posted yesterday that Miles said he pulled Benton's offer/he had to make some "hard, fast decision".

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Miles was asked at a press conference late Wednesday if Benton still had a scholarship offer by Wednesday morning before Benton signed with Auburn. Before Miles could answer, LSU athletic director Joe Alleva — located in the back of the room - frantically waved his arms to attempt to get Miles not to answer.

But Miles answered, "No."

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LINK

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Do you know the status of Benton's academics? Or his status with the clearinghouse? Do you know the progress he has or has not made towards gaining eligibility? Do you know what assurances Auburn gave him? Do you know what ultimatums or deadlines Miles gave him as conditions on LSU's remaining committed?

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if there were any conditions i'm wondering why we were still recruiting him hard and having him visit so late in the process (weeks after he went to AU)

Slow, did you "I told you so!" the recruiting board.

I know they sure blasted me for posting what I would hear.

about JJ? naw i said i hoped people who bet me that they'd leave the board wouldn't, b/c even i bought into his lies at the end (when he was putting out feelers that he was all LSU...even had his dad lie about it)

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I did not insinuate that. Way back I said it could have and should have been handled much better by PC.

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I know that I don't have all the facts before me here, but I'm still sticking with the fact that I believe your actions to be classless.

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if benton wanted to be at auburn, or LSU didn't want benton why did they both tell each other on Tuesday they wanted to be together?

the only thing that possible could have changed is RR....not bentons grades, not his visit to auburn...none of that makes a difference

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"the only thing"?!?!

Like Chizik and his recruiters couldn't possibly have been on the phone with him later Tuesday night, or Wednesday morning, telling all sorts of things like how Auburn wasn't going to bother him about his grades the way LSU was, or how he would never get on the field with Randle at LSU, or how the decommitment of Brandon Heavens would make Benton even more "the man" at Auburn, or any of dozens of other things they might have used to put pressure on him? But you just "know", magically, that nothing like that could possibly have happened, or been a factor. Yeah, gotta love that "reality" check . . . guess yours bounced.

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RR knew that LSU also had a commitment from DB for the last two years, so why not tell the coaches before?

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Because in 4444's world, things that have been the exact same issue for two years can suddenly become an issue overnight for someone when it suits his "Miles is a bastard" argument, but when it mitigates or doesn't suit the argument, it is absolutely impossible for any situation related to issues that existed two years ago could possibly change.

So, yes, Randle and his family -- after watching Benton sign with LSU FROM HIS OWN HIGHSCHOOL (yeah, I think they were aware of it) -- can, mysteriously and without any explaination, substantiation or confirmation, suddenly decide to give an ultimatum to the coach of one of the most successful college football programs in the country, where Reuben himself apparently wanted to go, to dismiss a player that had been an LSU commit for two years without Randle or his family ever raising the issue.

However, it must be impossible for a grades issue that was supposed to be resolved two years ago, and then was supposed to be resolved a year ago, and then was supposed to be resolved by signing day this year, and wasn't, could possibly become an issue on signing day to anyone involved in the process.

That is the world 4444 lives in.

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can, mysteriously and without any explaination, substantiation or confirmation, suddenly decide to give an ultimatum to the coach of one of the most successful college football programs in the country, where Reuben himself apparently wanted to go, to dismiss a player that had been an LSU commit for two years without Randle or his family ever raising the issue

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but they did just this

question their logic all you want, but this is what they said, publicly, the night before NSD. it's fact

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However, it must be impossible for a grades issue that was supposed to be resolved two years ago, and then was supposed to be resolved a year ago, and then was supposed to be resolved by signing day this year, and wasn't, could possibly become an issue on signing day to anyone involved in the process.

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why did we have him on campus a week or so ago, trying to recruit him, if grades were such a worry?