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Coaches Upset About Recruiting? Get Real

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This is rich. But they are rich — and this is how they got that way — so this probably shouldn't come as a surprise.

Still, isn't it the height of hypocrisy for high-profile college football coaches like LSU's Les Miles and Notre Dame's Brian Kelly — not to mention all those bickering Big Ten gentlemen — to be blasting 17- and 18-year-old kids for having a change of heart? Or for saying one thing and then later doing another? Or for being swayed by the lure of a better promise?

Really now, what does it say about Miles as a leader that he feels the need to stand up at a campus recruiting celebration and trash Notre Dame signee Gunner Kiel for bailing on the Tigers?

"We needed a quarterback in this class. There was a young man from Indiana...

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