Outside The Lines Videos - ESPN This is in the Chris Garrett thread on the college sports page...... It's video 1. Watch it, this aired on Outside the Lines, about oversigning of college athletes. This is a hatchet job, and it's pretty stupid. Does anyone out there think that if Chris Garrett was good enough, he wouldn't have played this past season? Did anyone not see Jordan Jefferson and Jarrett Lee??? Yeah, ESPN, we were cool with our quarterback situation, it was nice knowing we had TC McCartney as our 3rd option. Ridiculous, and disgusting by ESPN. Chris Garrett had to go because he didn't live up to what he was supposed to. When Les said he didn't have the want and the fight, he meant that Chris Garrett was too fat and lazy to work for the job.
There are some examples of LSU oversigning, but Chris Garrett isn't one of them. He could still be here if he were willing to put in the effort required of our players. Garrett isn't at Northwestern State because Miles exceeded his scholarship limit, he's at Northwestern State because he exceeded his Izzo's limit
Did you watch how Garrett and his Dad tried to make Miles out to be this evil cruel Dr. Claw character?
I didn't see the story, was it today? I flipped to the OTL when it was ending because I wanted to watch Manchester City play after. Had I known that LSU was gonna get blasted I would've tuned in for the whole program, but I try to avoid that show. Not surprised, ESPN's journalistic integrity went out the window a few years back. It's funny because there's a new SportsCenter commercial about Miles recruiting on-air talent for them. Oh, the irony of ironies.
I don't believe Garrett or his old man for a second that this just hit them out of the blue with no warning. Coaches don't pull scholarships, especially at a position as thin as LSU is at QB, just b/c they're trying to make the limit. Garrett was homesick, not putting forth the kind of effort that was expected of him, and was content to just sit behind Lee and Jefferson instead of fighting to move up the depth chart. ESPN is trying to create a story, all they did was find a couple of players and parents with sour grapes and presto, LSU becomes the poster boy for the 85-man roster limit signing problem.
I think it was yesterday. They tried to make it seem like Miles didn't have the balls to tell Garrett he was cut, so he sent a letter and then went to the bahamas to avoid him.
If anyone makes a stink about not getting both sides of the story, ESPN will just say they called Miles for comment and he declined. Another triumph for journalistic integrity. And who gets a guaranteed 4-year scholarship? Every form of student assistance I've ever had, whether it was TOPS or academic scholarships as an undergrad, or assistantships/fellowships as a graduate student, was merit-based and reviewed on a semester/yearly basis pursuant to meeting some metric of quality (GPA, academic conferences, activities, etc.) I don't meet those standards, I lose the assistance in short order. I can see how people would think you could get cut off from an athletic scholly at the whim of a cold-hearted coach, but if that really happened in significant numbers, then nobody would want to play for you. I'd love to see what the shape of a typical college program 2nd or 3rd string looks like after they get legally locked into a guaranteed 4-yr scholarship that coaches would need an army of university lawyers to break.
Here's another good response. Miles' only real sin is recruiting too well | shreveporttimes.com | Shreveport Times Garrett no longer at Northwestern State Given the Quarterback situation at LSU, if Garrett had wanted to still be at LSU, he could have been, IMO. Have a great day!!!
