"Classy" Les Miles loses star QB recruit to Irish, takes shot at the kid.

Les Miles takes the low road, blasts Gunner Kiel

Posted by John Taylor on February 2, 2012, 3:14 PM EST

What’s the old saying, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned? Apparently, hell’s never met Les Miles.

For those unfamiliar, Indiana high school quarterback Gunner Kiel committed to LSU in late December — after he had committed to then decommitted from the Indiana Hoosiers, mind you — before flipping his verbal Bayou commitment into early enrollment at Notre Dame.

Despite bringing in a big-time recruit — literally — at the position, the fact that Miles lost out on one of the top quarterback recruits in the Class of 2012 apparently displeased the Tigers head coach, as evidenced by the video below. You can fast-forward to about the 1:36 mark if you’re so inclined:



Really coach? Saying an 18-year-old kid doesn’t have the chest — i.e. a region of the body a couple of feet further south — or the ability to lead a program because he had the temerity to ditch your football team for another?

And people wonder why some fans of college football programs are the way they are; look at how the men they idolize and worship act when they don’t get what they want on the recruiting front.

I have a ton of respect for Coach Miles but that was beyond a classless and tasteless move. Get over yourself and be a better man than a sizable portion of the fans that hang on your profession’s every word, coach.

Gunner Kiel was the #1 pro style QB recruit in the nation, and he's enrolled at Notre Dame now No idea if this kid will live up to the hype, but my Irish sure could use the help at QB.

However you look at it coaches who take this kind of cheap shot at a kid should be ashamed of themselves, IMO.

I didn't see anything Miles said that was all that outrageous. LSU's loss, ND's gain no?

Ring wrote:I didn't see anything Miles said that was all that outrageous. LSU's loss, ND's gain no?

What's unfair is taking a shot at an 18 year old kid who hasn't even taken a college snap and trying to bring him down because he didn't take your school's offer. Just total lack of class, IMO. For example Notre Dame lost a WR, Greenbury, we had thought was a lock but ended up going with Houston; but coach Kelly didn't slag the kid, choosing instead to focus on the guys who did enroll.

college coaches need to have class.

above all they are adults in charge of huge enterprises and need to act as such. You don't often hear about CEOs disparaging executives who leave a company in public.