re: Landon Collins to Willis, Get out of Louisiana

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Holy frick dude. Ain't nobody reading that shite.

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Mostly true... and yet some do.

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Get over it. It's user discretion. quit feeling responsible for people acting like retards.

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I usually don't bother. But if it's user discretion, then am I not a user? Serious question: Is there less value in what I posted than the posts that I called out? / Do those people have more of a right to fill the board with snide comments than I do to offer a counterpoint (however long-winded)?

As for Collins, one of my posts spelled out my opinion about his recruitment... and I did actively follow it on this board. I don't agree that LSU "got rode".

As others have said, it was widely known that Landon was very high on Bama for several months before his commitment. The public perception was that LSU closed ground and almost flipped him... actually it was believed that he did flip on that last weekend visit before the Under Armor game... before he turned around again and committed to Bama on live TV.

I understand why that would create the perception that he played the LSU staff and I can't say he didn't, but I don't think so. I simply think there was some credibility to the reports following Landon's last visit to LSU that his girlfriend was texting/facebooking/whatever messages accusing him of not considering her a priority or something to that effect... this only makes sense if he did in fact have a change of heart. Yeah, they could've pre-meditated it, but I think that's giving a supposedly quiet kid a lot of credit for being manipulative. It seems unlikely simply because it would be way more effort to fake all that. Is it really that hard to believe that he favored bama, changed his mind, but then chose bama in the end because his girl had him wrapped? If he did fake all of that, he's more likely to win an Oscar than a Heisman. I think some fans-- feeling jilted-- found it more satisfying to skew the narrative and decided (with no factual basis) that he never really considered LSU and hence wasted our time.

Beyond that, I still don't see how the coaches were left with their **** in their hands. Again, Landon was a bama lean for some time. The coaches were as aware of this as anyone. They gave it their best shot to convince him to change his mind... and I think they did before his girl got a hold of him after that weekend. Bottom line... even if the coaches considered it a longshot to turn him, do you think they should've just thrown in the towel? Can you imagine the backlash here against Miles if he simply gave up and stopped pursuing Landon? The staff tried, almost pulled it off (maybe), but didn't. It happens. I don't consider that the same as getting played and left with their junk in their hands. And I still don't see any benefit in the least to verbally abusing kids for choosing a school.