re: Are we too beholden to "Recruiting Services"?

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I think all of those combine type camps are the issue. A player knows the drills and can practice them. Very few linemen skills actually translate to real game experience. (slapping down a dummy and getting to qb, etc etc etc)
Kids practice the cone shuffle (whatever all that is called) and yet those actions don't translate to games, but they make you higher on the "board"

I personally think the lineman part of those drills is comical.

Let's take a nose guard. Let's say one registers off the charts in speed, agility, lateral moves, etc., so he naturally is higher on the board than a 360 lb monster that cannot be moved backwards and will clog up the middle with a strong push forward. The sexy pick is the more athletic one, but the one you want in the middle on game day is the immovable rock.

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Combines might skew the recruiting service rankings, but LSU does not rely primarily on recruiting services.

LSU runs their own camps. That's where LSU evaluates players.