Miles not ready to say which QB will start for LSU

ANOTHER SCRIMMAGE SATURDAY: The Tigers will run about 50 plays in a closed scrimmage in Tiger Stadium at 11:15 a.m. Saturday.

“We are now nine practices in and we are making progress”, LSU coach Les Miles said.

“It was a nice, short scrimmage, kind of a first-and-10 scrimmage”, Miles said. “It’s an area that we hope and feel that this trip will help expose and utilize that brand of LSU to maybe get other players more familiar with our program and our team”.

“Usually it’s hard for me to go around campus and have somebody not say something or take a picture or something like that”, Simmons said. “We were a little lackadaisical coming out there”.

“Still not going to have a full day of scrimmage”, Miles said.

Bonnette said that the much ballyhooed quarterback competition is a major part of Miles shutting down practices to reporters earlier than usual and for keeping Harris and Jennings away from the microphones and cameras. “The running backs, Leonard (Fournette) and some of those guys, had some nice runs”.

“We want to let them sleep in (today) so that they can get some nutrition and rest”, Miles said. “It’s a mastery of a pretty broad book right now”.

Miles said that he’s not ready to name and starter and that the most important thing at this point in camp is for both Harris and Jennings to continue to improve.

Ben Simmons got his LSU basketball career off to an impressive start on Saturday, posting a double-double as the Tigers overcame a double-digit deficit to defeat the Newcastle All-Stars 89-75.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Why would we want to run when we can just throw it over there to that guy?” “I want to repeat – I’ve been in this town working on LSU football the entire time”. The team expects how those guys will be used.

“And I think you’ll find real quick that we’ll reopen and be business as usual”, said Miles, whose 8-5 season last year was his worst since 2008 when he also went 8-5 and tied for his worst at LSU. “The announcement’s always secondary”.

“This thing is going to happen”. We’re going to make a decision, and it’s going to be the guy that gives us the best opportunity at victory. Both guys continue to improve.

LSU football coach Les Miles believes he has the horses this season, but they are young and unsettled in the starting gate.

Miles praised the play of the offensive and defensive lines on Thursday.

“That was hilarious – especially with the idea they put that guy right in the middle of the stinking drawing”, a smiling Miles said. “We are so much further ahead in pass protection than we have been in the past”.

GILMORE, HERRON BLOSSOMING: Two of the jewels of LSU’s recruiting class of 2013 were defensive tackles Frank Herron and Greg Gilmore.