Miles let the players vote to determine if Jeremy Hill would be allowed to return to the team. This is exactly why Miles had problems with Perrilloux, Jefferson, Mathieu, et al. Miles is too much of a players' coach and not enough of a disciplinarian. Interestingly, Urban Meyer did the same thing at UF and when the players voted not to allow one of their teammates to rejoin the team, Meyer exercised a veto over their decision. WE WILL NOT CONTEND FOR ANOTHER NC OR SEC TITLE AS LONG HAS MILES COACHES OUR TEAM. IT'S VERY SAD, BUT VERY TRUE.
You don't pay much attention to LSU football, do you? We contend for an SEC title every year and a NC almost as often. It's very sad, but very true for Miles haters that he has a really big part in that.
Sport why don't you pay attention to the facts instead of going off on a totally unsubstantiated rant? You have much less than full knowledge of what went down. As many have said but you and others refuse to acknowledge Les keeps his decisions close to his vest and doesn't give anyone the full picture of what he is doing when related to player discipline. There is no reason to believe the decision was made by the team other than the garbled Milesian statement It is much more reasonable to suppose that Les decided to accept Hill back on the team but felt it a good teaching experience to give them a veto. Les has never avoided taking responsibility so why would he now? I don't know what team you've been following over the past few years but LSU missed a perfect season by less than 10 points last year with a trashed O line and having kicked his best defensive player off the team just before the season. He has had to deal with coaching tragedy (Kragthorpe's illness). His recruiting is consistently at the top and he has assembled a top staff with the addition of Cam. Why don't you look at the whole picture instead of jumping to the conclusion that suits your prejudices?
I agree that the whole "player vote" is utter BS and a bit insulting to the intelligence of anyone with a 3 digit IQ. But that's about where you lose me. Everything after that is the part I disagree with.
We're still talking about a single punch. LSU has no purview to discipline Hill for what happened before he stepped foot on campus soil as a student/athlete. Donald, hope you enjoy your personal misery of watching Les Miles field yet another damn fine (powerhouse) football team. Have a nice day.
I'd rather play for Tony Dungy than Bill Parcells. That being said I'd rather play for Les Miles than Nick Saban.
Team votes are nothing new. Our baseball program has done them for as long as I can remember. Also, a football team is a democracy if the coach says it is, sport. That's kinda the whole idea of being a coach. You know the season is getting close when they start coming out of the woodworks, all too proud of their trite, idiotic rhetoric.
