More from Mushmouth Miles Michigan’s not the only big-time FBS football program with a quarterback quandry heading into Week 5. Anthony Jennings struggled in LSU’s home loss to Mississippi State last Saturday. In the same game, Brandon Harris (pictured) nearly came riding to the rescue atop a white horse before being tripped up — and picked off — on a last-second Hail Mary that would’ve completed an improbable comeback. That confluence of events led to somewhat of a quarterback controversy throughout the early part of the week as the calls for Harris to replace Jennings began to grow louder. Les Miles, though, is not hearing it ahead of the New Mexico State game this weekend. Probably. “I think Anthony Jennings will take the first snap,” Miles said. “Right now it looks pretty forthcoming, but, again, it could change.” With qualifiers “I think” and “it could change,” it appears as if Miles’ decision is written in erasable marker. Especially after Miles allowed that Harris had closed the gap and has been “getting a lot of snaps” with the first-team offense in practice this week. In the loss to the Bulldogs, Jennings completed 13-of-26 passes for 159 and no touchdowns but no interceptions either. With less than four minutes remaining and trailing 34-16, Miles inserted Harris into the game and the true freshman responded in resounding fashion. The four-star early enrollee completed six of his nine passes for 140 yards and a pair of touchdowns; a heave with no time left on the clock was Harris’ only pockmark in what turned out to be a 34-29 loss. Through four games, Jennings is 42nd nationally and ninth among SEC quarterbacks in passing efficiency. After throwing five touchdown passes the first two weeks of the season, Jennings has thrown none the last two. If Miles were looking to make a switch, this might be the week to get Harris’ starting feet wet. After Saturday’s game against the 2-2 Aggies, the Tigers will face both No. 5 Auburn and unranked Florida on the road.
It doesn't matter if Joe Montana takes the first snap if all he is gonna do is signal which way the run play is going and hand it off 7 out of 10 plays.
Maybe he meant "Some things never change, LSU fans will bash the coach and team after a loss and even bitch after a win even if they didn't stay to watch it. I love MY home state team."
f, just own it harris. i liked that he had the stones to do it, right or wrong. now les surely will never start him. as in ever. this is the equivalent of 2 fumbles. at least we may get to see more emotional twits from him before he transfers.
I think it's safe to say that he's making virtually every LSU fan sick, except for Red, and the few others, who have that constant intake of certain "special" substances, thereby rendering their reality as completely moot. For those who may think the above post goes a bit too far, get over it. We all kid.
It's hard to pay any mind to the sickness that I share with the many other reasonable LSU fans, which one can assume to be the large, large, majority of the fan-base, all while the players are most definitely enduring what surely amounts to a life altering sickness. And then for the players, most of them at least, having to go around feigning a state of over-contentment with Miles, coupled with the requisite that is the far-reaching fondness for their coach. Sentiments that many of you here on the forums continue to believe, or have in the past at least. When the departures/transfers start piling up at season's end, don't take shock at at what will be an ominous occurrence. Thinking of LSU's upcoming match-ups has become a daunting chain of neural processes. Let's not overly envision the horrors that will be the upcoming conference match-ups, so as not to induce a warping of the brain, one that could even reach the stratospherically warped brain level of our good pal/coach-wannabe Leslie Edwin Miles. And I say to all, be SAFE.
Hilliard became the state's all-time leading rusher and Fournette the nation's number one recruite while playing in the spread.
