re: What ever came of Josh Booty?

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I don't remember Booty being part of a National Championship caliber team.

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Your right. Didn't say he was. What I meant by he set us back was that we were building then. IMO, we could have been built into a National Championship caliber team faster than we did. Instead of 2003, it would have been sooner.

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I don't remember Booty being part of a National Championship caliber team.

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What Booty did cost us was the opportunity to sign two outstanding college quarterbacks.

Out of high school, Booty was #1 nationally and Peyton Manning was #2. After Booty comitted to LSU, Peyton dropped us. I'm not saying we would have signed him, but he did state that was the reason for dropping LSU.

Jump ahead 4 years and Booty is attempting to get out of his baseball contract in order to play football at LSU. One of the top quarterbacks in the nation is considering LSU? Who might that be? That's right, it's Eli Manning. Once Booty got out of his baseball contract and stated that he was coming to LSU to play football, Eli dropped us.

Now I don't think we would have been a championship team even with Peyton Manning during that time period, but with the team we had while Eli was in college, it wouldn't have been fair if we had him quarterbacking for us. 2-3 championships easily.