re: Is there a worse recruiter in major college basketball than Trent Johnson?

I agree with a lot of this post, but it's honestly laughable to say that you don't want 5-star type players. Everyone wants them, and most of them do not go pro. Those that want to be one-and-dones will go to a 'sexy' school like Kentucky, Kansas, etc, so we'd never have had a chance with them. And really, I don't think we've ever been an "attractive" school for top players - we had a few great years from the lat 90's to 2006 when Louisiana produced some excellent national prospects, and we managed to keep them. We are not a basketball school. We will rarely attract top 25 players who do not have a Louisiana connection or are from one of our nearby states without a legitimate basketball program (I'm looking at you, Mississippi). Unfortunately, that's just the way it is.

Realistically, if you're a top player, and you haven't been raised a huge fan of hometown U, would you even look twice at a place like LSU?