Les Miles, head football coach for the Tigers, apologized for comments he made to almost 5,000 fans at the annual Bayou Recruiting Bash on National Signing Day held last week.
A TigerTV reporter filmed the conference at the Baton Rouge River Center. The campus channel aired video clips yesterday.
“So five from Texas,” Miles said at the conference in reference to his new recruits. We took four from Florida. We took two from Alabama. You bet your ass … We’re looking forward to playing Florida. We’re looking forward to playing Auburn, but we have a new rival in fucking Alabama.”
Miles issued a statement yesterday apologizing for his comments.
“I apologize for the inappropriate remark I made at the Bayou Recruiting Bash last Wednesday,” Miles said in the statement to The Daily Reveille. “This was a private booster function that was closed to the working media, but that’s no excuse for my remarks. That remark was out of character for me. I got caught up in the emotion of the day and the excitement of the moment, but I should have used better judgment.”
Dillon Couvillon, TigerTV news director, said the TigerTV staff took the legalities of the situation into consideration before deciding to air the video clips. TigerTV is not controlled by the Federal Communications Commission.
The clips aired with subtitles of Miles’ comments. Couvillon said the audio in some parts of the clips was incoherent because of the crowd’s reactions to the statements. He said he has no doubt that the subtitles correspond with Miles’ words.
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