They say there’s no crying in baseball. As for football recruiting? If you’re Les Miles, there apparently is. And some yelping for good measure.
Myles Brennan is a three-star 2017 prospect in 247Sports.com‘s composite rankings, rated as the No. 27 pro-style quarterback in the country. The Mississippi high schooler had held offers from 15 or so schools, including Cal, Indiana, Kentucky, Memphis, West Virginia and Wisconsin; a visit to LSU this past weekend ended with, to him, a surprise offer from Miles and the Tigers to make it an even 16.
Instead of mulling it over with his parents and others close to him, the non-committed Brennan gave Miles his verbal pledge shortly before the trip ended. Apparently appreciative of the chesticles shown by the young man, Miles “just started screaming and tears started coming out of his eyes” over the pledge.
” I just said, ‘Coach, I want to go ahead and shake your hand and tell you I’m going to go ahead and commit,’” Brennan said in an exceptional piece by the Sun Herald‘s Patrick Ochs. “At that time, he just started screaming and tears started coming out of his eyes. He gave me a big ol’ hug. My parents started tearing up and crying because they didn’t know it was coming.”
Given the sorry state of the position for most of his tenure in Baton Rouge, I guess you can excuse Miles getting emotional when someone of talent commits to his program.