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How can a Louisiana recruit grow up not an LSU fan?
Posted on 12/5/10 at 9:29 am
Posted on 12/5/10 at 9:29 am
Most of the current Louisiana recruits have been interested in football for the last 7 years (age 11), and LSU has won 2 national championships during this time period.
This, along with the traditional love of LSU which is rampant in Louisiana, should make every high school football player like LSU.
Even the ones whose parents did not pass the LSU love down, are exposed to a lot of peer pressure for LSU.
It doesn't make since that recruits pop up wanting to go elsewhere. Their love of LSU should override the desire to leave the state.
This, along with the traditional love of LSU which is rampant in Louisiana, should make every high school football player like LSU.
Even the ones whose parents did not pass the LSU love down, are exposed to a lot of peer pressure for LSU.
It doesn't make since that recruits pop up wanting to go elsewhere. Their love of LSU should override the desire to leave the state.
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Posted on 12/5/10 at 9:38 am to TheFinalWord
Easy. Their parents like another team, they hate hearing about LSU, they like another team better, they like another coach better, they hate hearing about LSU. The combinations are endless. You can't tell someone who to like. A recruit choses what he wants to do. Just because you give a horse the best horse feed there is doesn't mean he will like it.
Posted on 12/5/10 at 9:52 am to TheFinalWord
He might want to go to a better school? Or maybe to a school with a fanbase lacking a large contingency of paranoid delusional assholes?
Posted on 12/5/10 at 10:23 am to TheFinalWord
ruhtard in every school 
Posted on 12/5/10 at 12:02 pm to TheFinalWord
Not everybody who grows up in Louisiana likes it here.
Louisiana is a shithole, comparatively speaking. Some recruits know this. Others haven't been exposed to much else and don't have a reference point. Some have, and like it better here. It boils down to personal preference.
Louisiana is a shithole, comparatively speaking. Some recruits know this. Others haven't been exposed to much else and don't have a reference point. Some have, and like it better here. It boils down to personal preference.
This post was edited on 12/5/10 at 12:05 pm
Posted on 12/5/10 at 12:08 pm to TheFinalWord
It should be noted though if your a Louisiana recruit and chose to play for LSU you'll be fine for the rest of your life. You'll always have a job and thought of highly.
If you chose an out of state school over LSU, like Mcknight, you can forget about coming back to Louisiana and expect to have a job waiting for you.
Louisiana will take care of its own people
If you chose an out of state school over LSU, like Mcknight, you can forget about coming back to Louisiana and expect to have a job waiting for you.
Louisiana will take care of its own people
Posted on 12/5/10 at 12:49 pm to TheFinalWord
also depends on where the money is...who will pay the parents more
Posted on 12/5/10 at 9:30 pm to TheFinalWord
LSU is not a fit for every kid. As an LSU fan this does not hurt my feelings.
Posted on 12/6/10 at 7:07 am to TheFinalWord
How many parents of these really good recruits can afford to take their son to the LSU games when they were young? My guess is most didn't attend games but grew up watching them on the tube along with a bunch of other teams.
Posted on 12/6/10 at 1:42 pm to TheFinalWord
Alot of times dont give a shite about playing for the school they have been a fan of, and just want the best option for them. (playing time, chance to help get them to pros, etc.)
I know with JaMarcus Russell, he was a HUGE Tenn fan his whole life as the rest of his family was. He had no love for LSU but the early recruitment by Saban. (He starting recruiting JR in the 9th grade) and the ability of Saban to help him get to the next level, adding the close distance to Mobile from Baton Rouge so Mom and Gramdma could watch him play) overrode his love for Tenn and FSU.
So he signed with LSU.
You have to remember they are looking at it as a career thing and not just playing football for a team they are a fan of.
I know with JaMarcus Russell, he was a HUGE Tenn fan his whole life as the rest of his family was. He had no love for LSU but the early recruitment by Saban. (He starting recruiting JR in the 9th grade) and the ability of Saban to help him get to the next level, adding the close distance to Mobile from Baton Rouge so Mom and Gramdma could watch him play) overrode his love for Tenn and FSU.
So he signed with LSU.
You have to remember they are looking at it as a career thing and not just playing football for a team they are a fan of.
Posted on 12/7/10 at 2:20 am to TheFinalWord
I have a good feeling of what the answer is, but I don't know if I can phrase it right late at night.
This post was edited on 12/7/10 at 2:27 am
Posted on 12/7/10 at 1:50 pm to TheFinalWord
when i grew up and started playing backyard football then moved to texas through 5-9 grade. i grew up wanting to play for eddie robinson at grambling. when i started to play in high school i got a letter from gerry dinardo at lsu and been a fan since. i never wanted to go out to play for any other college out of state. maybe the U.
Posted on 12/7/10 at 3:43 pm to TheFinalWord
They can be an LSU fan and also want to get on the field, which a three star can do at La Tech or U La Laf/Monroe.
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