re: Is it time to finally give up on Russell Shepard being a big time player?

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SOmething tells me if he hand went to Texas he would be a starting running QB like vince young. We mis-used him at LSU and for that I feel bad.

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Now this is a guy who REALLY doesn't get it. If you think RS could have been a QB of ANY kind AT any level of CFB then you are letting some high school film make a fool of you. RS had a great HS career and some of the best highlight reels ever. But his talents haven't transferred to the D-1 level...at least not to the level expectations set. He is a great kid and pretty good complimentary player for LSU...just not an elite one.

Not every HS player's talents transfer well to CFB. RS is not the only player this has ever happend to....but perhaps he is the highest profile player at LSU to ever underwhelm to this extent. If you just take his HS expectations out of the equations and only look at his production since he got to LSU you won't be nearly as disappointed!