BATON ROUGE - In the overall scheme of things during what looks very much like a national championship year, this does not matter very much.
But what's stupid is stupid. And here is another example of Lying State University.
LSU coach Les Miles' philosophy toward relaying injury information is very stupid. It's not completely his fault, though, because he is a football coach, and football coaches tend to see things in a very narrow way, which is one reason why many of them are very successful. But they often view changing their mind on something as a weakness instead of what it can often be as time goes by, which is smart.
This is where coaches need a little assistance or advice from their sports information staff or athletic department staff, which at major colleges like LSU are tremendously over-staffed but do have some very talented people.
These talented people at LSU are not doing their jobs in this area. Someone needs to tell Miles that his injury information policy is stupid and needs to be altered. If they have already tried, they need to try again.
For example, one of LSU's best football players - wide receiver Early Doucet - has a groin injury. We know that because some of his teammates told us. We also talked to some other people outside of LSU that would know. Miles has talked at length about how Doucet got hurt freakishly in a non-contact drill on Friday. Yet he won't say or confirm what part of Doucet was injured.
I purposefully did not include Miles not confirming Doucet's groin injury in a story in Monday papers because I know it's a groin because players told me it was. Players are young and the young usually tell the truth more than people over 30. In addition, Miles is on record as saying he will be "evasive" with the truth concerning injuries for strategic purposes. (While a Michigan assistant, the Wolverines won a game because they knew a lot of injury information about the opponent. They probably would've won the game anyway, but he doesn't realize that.)
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