re: Anybody think Aranda may be our ace in the in recruiting Tom Herman to LSU?

Did LSU recruit Major Applewhite out of HS? I don't remember how hard we recruited him.

Why did he go to Texas and not LSU? Just curious.

I heard something about it, but not exactly what happened between Major & UT...
I would love to know what occurred...

Major App. banged a student while he was coaching at Texas during the bowl game in 2009.

Here's an interesting angle:

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Let’s run with this hypothetical and say that Texas wins only seven games and fires strong. Herman — who didn’t go to Georgia or South Carolina in the latest spin of the coaching carousel — would be the favorite at Texas next December if the job opens up. He would probably like to bring Applewhite with him.

Oops. That’s where the lawsuit could prove thorny, and where Applewhite’s 2009 indiscretion comes back to haunt him. Would Applewhite be given the keys to the Texas program at the age of 38?

We return to the beginning of this discussion: Succeeding this year in Houston under Tom Herman could actually put Major Applewhite in a worse career position relative to what he has now.

It’s a first-world problem, to be sure, but it’s a problem nonetheless.

We’ll see where the road carries Major Applewhite over the next several months.