Can't begrudge the guy for wanting to get his degree. I hope he surrounds himself with better influences.
You give me gas.....lol, but thanks for your insight!So irrelevant you took the time to click the thread title and type out the above post. You might have even read the latest posts, which take up the last page. Yep, he's irrelevant...
I agree. That rehab was a short one.Well, he could go anywhere and enter the draft. Why wouldn't he drop down to FCS and play this year instead of hanging around LSU? If he's enrolling at LSU, I have to think that he thinks that the rule will be waived and he will be let back on the team. If he is, it will be a huge mistake by Miles and the PTB above him. Too many short-term "celebrity rehabs" have shown how useless they are. It will end up biting them in the butt...
You may not have been following this, but LSU has a very strict rule - 3 positive tests and you're off every athletic team for LSU forever. This is not Miles choice and it's not the AD's choice - it's a school rule imposed from the school administration, and, IMO, it's a good one. That is the reason for my post above about the foolishness of modifying the rule for this one player. It wouldn't happen at Bama and I hope it doesn't happen at LSU, either...If he cares enough about LSU that the possibility of playing for them again next season acts as sufficient enticement for him to clean up his act, I hope they are dangling it. Of course, there have to be very strict conditions put in place, and constant monitoring.
We have all seen too many lives destroyed by drugs. I hope he finds his way through this somehow.
Thanks - did not know that. In that case, I am surprised that he has not already been told to move on to another school.You may not have been following this, but LSU has a very strict rule - 3 positive tests and you're off every athletic team for LSU forever. This is not Miles choice and it's not the AD's choice - it's a school rule imposed from the school administration, and, IMO, it's a good one. That is the reason for my post above about the foolishness of modifying the rule for this one player. It wouldn't happen at Bama and I hope it doesn't happen at LSU, either...
Again, as I've said over and over, this decision is not Miles' at all and the rule is not Miles' to change. This three failures rule is a school-wide rule imposed from the school administration down. You didn't have to watch more than two minutes of Miles' presser to see that TM's ouster was not something he wanted. The problem is that, if they make an exception of TM, then the rule becomes a joke. My bet is they don't do it, but, if they do it, it will not have been Miles' decision, in the end...I wonder if this whole thing has been orchestrated after he failed the 3rd test. Miles kicked him off the team so he ends up looking like he has some integrity. Then Mathieu decides to get his life in order by going to rehab. A rather short one I might add. Now Mathieu will get the sympathy vote and Miles will give him a second chance. Both come out looking like great guys. This has been PR spin from the beginning IMO
You know how much this country just loves second chances. They'll change the rule so he can come back and everybody wins. Meanwhile, I wonder if LSU really pulled his scholarship or not.
Go back and re-read this thread. 2nd chance was long ago.Now Mathieu will get the sympathy vote and Miles will give him a second chance. Both come out looking like great guys. This has been PR spin from the beginning IMO
I completely agree that it's not Miles call, I do think it will happen though, Marketing & Recruiting plot heck ESPN will probably follow him around campus. LSU will look like the hero giving this poor kid another opportunity.Again, as I've said over and over, this decision is not Miles' at all and the rule is not Miles' to change. This three failures rule is a school-wide rule imposed from the school administration down. You didn't have to watch more than two minutes of Miles' presser to see that TM's ouster was not something he wanted. The problem is that, if they make an exception of TM, then the rule becomes a joke. My bet is they don't do it, but, if they do it, it will not have been Miles' decision, in the end...
Right, if the university makes this exception they no longer have a rule. I just don't think they can afford to do that. We have to remember that just like at Alabama, not everyone involved in a decision like this cares about football.Again, as I've said over and over, this decision is not Miles' at all and the rule is not Miles' to change. This three failures rule is a school-wide rule imposed from the school administration down. You didn't have to watch more than two minutes of Miles' presser to see that TM's ouster was not something he wanted. The problem is that, if they make an exception of TM, then the rule becomes a joke. My bet is they don't do it, but, if they do it, it will not have been Miles' decision, in the end...
I can't believe he got approved with that Username, lolI guess he couldn't understand what "no LSU posters" means...