Practice "extinction" on SIU I'm told that parents train their children to misbehave by paying extra attention to their misbehaviour, regardless of whether it's constructive or punitive attention. The better approach is "extinction", ignoring the un-desired behaviour (within reason),and rewarding - paying attention to - only desired behaviour. Just look back at the enormous amount of attention devoted to SIU in this thread. This is what he/she is after from the outset; hence the usually inflammatory nature of his posts. We are REWARDING the guy for undesirable behaviour every time we respond. Time to ignore SIU? Or kick him off a forum that he purports to despise? If that were the case, why does he continue to post? Because we reward him for doing so. Hmmm. Maybe this post defeats its own object. Or, maybe this is an appeal to the authours of the counter-productive responses to divert their knowledge & acumen to those of us who are willing to listen. Or, per the KJV, "neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you". No offence intended SIU.
In an article that I read today mathieu's uncle that raised him said this" he went the whole 9 yards and got to know where this child came from". I don't give a damn what espn says miles cares about his players and they love playing for him. A player with a loser attitude is a cancer to a team. If a player won't do right and put their heart in it they have to be cut out before the cancer spreads. I am damn proud of how miles treats the players at lsu and nothing espn says will change the facts that les miles has a heart of gold and is the father figure of our team. I may not agree with all the decisions miles makes and I get mad as hell about the clock crap but I respect him for being the man he is.Miles is not the heartless coach who only cares about his own win loss record like what we had here before and lsu is a better place for it.
I have just finished reading this entire thread. I'm sure in the world of big time college football that coaches have to cut players that they wish they wouldn't have to. I know it must break the hearts of both the cut players and their families alike. I agree with some of the post I have read in saying if you are cut and lose a scolly then you should be able to transfer without penality to another school. I'm sure an agreement that it be to an out of conference school would be fair.
i know i started the thread but...... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0]YouTube - Billy Madison - Ultimate Insult (Academic Decathalon)[/ame] by the way, i wasn't insulting you rwilliams, pretty much a shot at the poser on here.
After reading all the posts in this thread, I think I can sum it all up by saying simply: CG is a gone pecan....GC, you're next !!!! :grin:
My problem with what happened I understand that sometimes players lose their athletic scholarship, but if this interview with Chris Garrett is true then I am VERY disappointed that Miles did not tell the kid in the face to face meeting that he was being cut. The article said the form letter was dated 11 days before the kid met with Miles, and that Miles never mentioned it in the meeting. If you are a man then give the letter to the kid when you meet with him, and look him in the eye when you tell him that his scholarship will not be renewed. Call me old fashioned but I did 22 years in the military and growing up in North Louisiana my Dad taught me that a man's word is his bond. He also taught me to look someone straight in the eyes when you talk to them. If you can't look someone in the eye and deliver bad news then you are not a man. If you feel different then that is your prerogative, but values are something that I hold very important. :usaflagwa God Bless the USA!
Not how it played out at all. If Chris was surprised by the letter then he wasn't listening. I know it wasn't a surprise to many of his teammates. He was told repeatedly to work hard and lose the weight. We even told him after he received the letter that he could earn it back if he made the adjustments.
