Les Miles: "I Don't Recall That I Ever Suspended Them"

What I was told may have been a nice way of saying, “thanks, but we’ll come up with our own promotions when we want.”

Just saying, what you & I want is always what marketing types & corporate bigwigs want b/c they didn’t think of it.

Just saying, what you & I want isn’t always what marketing types & corporate bigwigs want b/c they didn’t think of it.

to grasp the concept of age when you’re an automaton

Or it could be that Les doesn’t give a rip what the media or the administration thinks about how he should run his football team.

In my opinion he is publicly telling Mike Martin and Joe Alleva to sit down and shut up.

I don’t care if they all get along or if they want things handled another way or whatever but what a bad time for the Administration to be trying to play “who’s in charge” with the Hat.

I’ve still got a huge problem with Alleva and Martin’s comments (and the action/inaction) during the JJ(s) ordeal and now you want to claim dominance over your football coach when he is preparing for the rise and fall of mankind? WTH is your problem, just shut up.

Perhaps because the Chancellor of the University is making asinine statements that directly contradict what the football coach is doing/saying.

Our Tigers are on the verge of the best season in history.
Yes, I believe they are and that is just one reason why Martin needs to shut his pie hole.

Our coach…. I fully support his efforts, his coaching style, and, most of all, his concern and consideration of his "damn strong football team".
Perhaps then you’d agree that the timing of ‘Our coach’s bosses trying to cut his leg from under him is a bit off?

I do not know, nor do I care what Aleva and/or Martin have said
Read the media much?

My coach is still running the team.
That he is, thankfully.

To 4.0 Stance above:

What you’re suggesting is the textbook definition of "lack of institutional control"

Not in the least. The NCAA has already stated, on the record, that they have no dog in the (failed test) fight.

I’ve never gotten any inkling from Miles that he resents or resists administrative oversight over his program.
Of course not, Miles has much more class and self confidence but he most certainly did what HE thought was right, regardless of what Martin said just hours before he exercised his decision.

I also have no idea what you’re talking about regarding Martin and Alleva "claiming dominance over the football coach."
Martin gave an interview and said that he and Alleva would decide when and if the suspended players would be reinstated and that it could be after next week. There were a few under hand jabs, in my opinion and he made it clear that he and Alleva were in charge.

That article was published Tuesday morning, yet the players returned to practice Tuesday, which would be impossible if they were still suspended. Then Miles was put on the spot about the Suspension and said "I don’t recall that I ever told you they were Suspended…. Just withheld from play, yada, yada, yada…"