Les Miles blames AD for Franks flipping to UF

[BMF]

Les Miles explains how Florida was able to flip QB Feleipe Franks from LSU

https://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/s...ains-florida-able-flip-qb-feleipe-franks-lsu/

Not that this weekend’s Florida-LSU rivalry game needs anymore bad blood, but let’s remember for a second that Florida QB Feleipe Franks was once a Tiger commit.

In fact, he flipped his commitment only six weeks before enrollment, leaving LSU in a tough place.

On Wednesday, Ross Dellenger of The Advocate spoke with former LSU coach Les Miles, who explained that then-new Florida coach Jim McElwain was able to use negative recruiting to get Franks away from LSU:

“Somebody calls you and says, ‘Listen, I just got the head coaching job at Florida. I want you to come be my quarterback, and I’m not going to be fired,’” Miles said. “‘That Miles guy, he’s going to be fired. Handwriting is on the wall.’”

Miles added that LSU AD Joe Alleva’s comments to the media weren’t helping Miles and the Tigers convince Franks to stay, either:

“They could paint a stable position, and I really … as soon as they got rid of Muschamp and went with McElwain, there was an offensive guy,” Miles said. “(The Franks family) felt like it was going to be different, and there was always a dark cloud hanging over my head as long as (athletic director) Joe Alleva was going to talk to the press.”

Of course, Franks ended up as a Gator, and there’s no changing that now. Still, it’ll be a little extra motivation for the Tigers this week to prove to their former commit that he should have stayed.

 

[Okeechobee Joe]

What I got out of reading that was that Franks wanted to go to Florida but went with LSU because of Muschamp. Once Muschamp was fired and the offensive guru Jim McElwain was hired Franks switched to UF.

The Franks family thought things would be different in Gainesville with the new coach.

 

[GatorJ]

Waaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!

 

[oxrageous]

“They could paint a stable position, and I really … as soon as they got rid of Muschamp and went with McElwain, there was an offensive guy,” Miles said. “(The Franks family) felt like it was going to be different.”

Looks like the joke was on the Franks family.

 

[Bernardo de la Paz]

So Les Miles thinks they should have duped the kid into thinking he wouldn't be fired?

 

[Captain Sasquatch]

He's been in football long enough, he should know how recruiting works.

 

[GatorStud]

ole Les...

 

[itsgr82bag8r]

:wobble:

 

[Gator98MD]

I am pretty certain Mac has said on more than one occasion that they don’t partake in negative recruiting? I take from that article that macs nose might start growing

 

[Swamp Donkey]

What I got out of reading that was that Franks wanted to go to Florida but went with LSU because of Muschamp. Once Muschamp was fired and the offensive guru Jim McElwain was hired Franks switched to UF.

Yeah, imagine how many recruits we can land if we hired an offensive Guru who didn't finish a hundred or worse every year. we could land a great class this very year.

 

[Ancient Reptile]

Looks like the joke was on the Franks family.

Really? Like he would be better off with the LSU dumpsters fire?

 

[Lake Gator]

Franks doesn't look unhappy to be at Florida. He's already part of Florida football lore as the man who tossed The Heave to Cleve. Besides, LSU's offense isn't exactly tearing it up lately.

 

[NavetG8r]

Did anybody bother asking Franks? What does Miles know about what was or wasn't said between Mac and Franks? Sounds like a lot of speculation on the part of Miles to me.

 

[Bernardo de la Paz]

I am pretty certain Mac has said on more than one occasion that they don’t partake in negative recruiting? I take from that article that macs nose might start growing

It doesn't necessarily mean that he was negative recruiting. He could have just emphasized the fact that he was just starting here and wouldn't be going anywhere for awhile, leaving it up to Franks to read all of the press about Miles being fired.

It's a common sales tactic called ghosting that you can read about here:
https://www.asherstrategies.com/blo...ing-discriminators-not-spooky-just-effective/

 

[oxrageous]

Really? Like he would be better off with the LSU dumpsters fire?

Reading comprehension is your friend. They said they thought the offense would be different going from Muschamp to Butters. It hasn't been. In some ways it's been worse.

And by the way, are you saying the UF ISN'T a dumpster fire right now? Franks has been poorly developed and is only even playing right now because LDR got hurt. We could be 0-4 right now.

The people that liked your post should be even more embarrassed than you.

 

[alcoholica]

Miles needs to lay off the grass.

 

[Renard904]

What I got out of reading that was that Franks wanted to go to Florida but went with LSU because of Muschamp. Once Muschamp was fired and the offensive guru Jim McElwain was hired Franks switched to UF.

The Franks family thought things would be different in Gainesville with the new coach.

I wonder, after 2 years, does he regret that? Mac sucks worse than Champ.

 

[gatormandan]

What? You expected Mac to use positive recruiting? Hahaha

 

[Slevin]

I am pretty certain Mac has said on more than one occasion that they don’t partake in negative recruiting? I take from that article that macs nose might start growing

I don't see how this is really all that negative. Alleva did 99% of the damage himself. If Mac pointed out the obvious I mean, go cry a river Les. Your AD wanted you out and made it very obvious.

 

[Okeechobee Joe]

Looks like the joke was on the Franks family.

The bigger joke was on us.