Well damn, Bubba, you're the one maintaining the hoop recruiting thread - you tell me. Who's he going to sign?

Is there one Top 50 recruit even remotely possible for LSU to sign this year? Generally speaking you've got to sign at least one Top 50 player per year if you expect to have any chance at being a Top 25 type team. Unless he turns Gathers I don't think he can get one.

Other than Morgan, is there one Top 100 recruit he has a real chance to sign? I don't see one of those, either.

In fact, I have yet to even hear of a recruit of note making an official visit to LSU this fall. Maybe I missed it.

So who's he recruiting? At this rate, Miles might have a good bit more basketball talent on the football team than Trent will.

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Posted by tigerbait2010

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Posted on 10/18/11 at 3:12 pm to macaoidh

Yeah, this is definitely not the feather in Alleva's cap. This hire could not have been worse.

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Posted by Bubba Hotep

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Posted on 10/18/11 at 3:18 pm to macaoidh

Below is a quote from one of my posts in the recruiting thread. It is still currently my opinion. I am disappointed that LSU did not offer, or even actively recruit, Michael Qualls. LSU has also not recruited Josh Gray, either before he committed to Mississippi State, or after he decommitted. He is setting up visits now with no word from LSU.

I also have no knowledge of any official visits this year, either in the past or future, except Morgan.

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I am beginning to be of the opinion that Trent Johnson is getting some flack on the recruiting trail based on his job security and lack of success. I predict he will wait until the spring to sign anyone besides Morgan. By that time, LSU will have had a good season and his future will be secure. He can then pick up some good spring signees, which there are always some good ones. Or he will have had a bad season and be fired.

Either way, the future of Trent Johnson will be decided by spring (actually, probably February as we will know how the season is going by that time).

His third option would be to sign some players early that are below the quality level that he needs.

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Posted by Suntiger

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Posted on 10/18/11 at 5:35 pm to macaoidh

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Is there one Top 50 recruit even remotely possible for LSU to sign this year?

We got JOB last year who was a top 50 recruit.

Malik Morgan, Matt Derenbecker & Aaron Dotson are top 100.

And it's not as though we've had a lot of talent to pick and choose from the past few years. Although I understand us getting Hickey means we don't "need" Felix, but I said from the get go that Gathers (or a more highly regarded player) was pretty much a make or break prospect this year.

I've said all along though that TJ needs to get a top notch recruiter on staff.

I really think this years team will be better with JOB and Hamilton down low. If Turner can play the 3 and Hicky can play consistently at the point, we could actually have a pretty decent team.

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