If you could ask Les a Question????

I think he meant, young inexperienced QB making copious execution mistakes, including throwing interceptions, against stiff SEC competition, compounded by the fact that he only knew 5 plays*.

 

Why do we seem to have such a difficult time believing that CLM knew something that we, the resident coaches of the internet, did not know? Is it not possible that he was right? If not, why are we paying him and his staff so much money? Any of us could have readily seen that JJ was ready to start the day he took off his redshirt. It's perfectly obvious by the way he played last night.

I refuse to believe that CLM would have intentionally kept Lee in the game, knowing the problems he was having, if he had an option. Jefferson simply was not ready. I feel sure the coaching staff had numerous discussions of this and determined Jefferson was not ready!

 

You do realize that after stating at the begining of the season that Jefferson would be a Redshirt, that our smart coaches put him into the North Texas game (the 2nd game of the season) for 3 plays which in fact BURNED his redshirt.

Thats all I am gonna say!

 

Jefferson's redshirt was not burned until the Tulane game. Due to the "injury" sustained earlier in the season, we could still get a medical redshirt for him.

 

No his "redshirt" was burned after North Texas! Because of the so called "injury" we could have APPLIED for the medical. The NCAA then investgates the claim and deems weither a medical redshirt is worthy to be awarded. Its not a gimme.

 

We felt confident that he could get the medical redshirt.

 

I am not so sure. If that was the case we do have a 4th string QB that could have come instead of him if he was truely hurt enough for a medical.

And if he was ABLE to play within the season, he would have had to do same damn fine acting for the NCAA which doesnt decided until after the season is over on weither to medical someone.

 

JJ was "seriously injured" either in the North Texas game or in practice the following week. There were great discussions ongoing as to requesting a medical redshirt for which the precedence had been well established. It is simply one more part of team management. The only way to avoid these "games within the rules" is for the NCAA to establish a four year, no exception, rule which begins the first day the athlete enrolls in school. We know that will never happen.

My post was an attempt to state with tongue firmly in cheek, that our coach probably did know things that we didn't. After all, JJ's play last night does not, in any way, infer that he was ready when Lee was having all his problems. In any instance, I was impressed with the obvious advances he has made during the previous three weeks.

 

OK Crip, you're right.
This coaching staff that has been playing and coaching college ball since before youor I were even born doesn't know the rules.

He played in the 2nd game of the season, give him a lil gameplay since no one was stepping up to assume the QB role.
The 3rd game was a tight defensive struggle where not a single person on the planet (at least no one posting in the game thread that night) was realistically suggesting to insert JJ.
The 4th game, he once again played and got banged up. Season or career ending? no.
Enough for him to miss valuable practice time which slowed down his development and bury him on the depth chart? apparently so.


That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.
Jesus man your conspiracy theories are more far fetched than X-Files lately.
Miles didn't burn his redshirt by not knowing redshirt rules, he didn't imagine an injury to cover-up his not knowing the rules, and he didn't watch a wiz kid (JJ) in practice and say "phuck it! let's use the color blind white guy with cement shoes"