re: Your recruit that "got away"

I’m gonna go a different route and say Josh Booty. If he had gone straight from high school, his college football career would have been a lot different. I realize he pretty much had to go play baseball being drafted that high, but him being a QB at that specific time in LSU’s ascendence, I thought it was a really big loss.


Side note: He’s a couple years older than me, but close enough to where my teammates and I would have considered him a “peer.” He’s the only player I can ever remember going out of our way to watch take pre-game infield for the sheer spectacle—his arm was unreal. (Joe Lawrence and Johnny Thibodeaux-RIP-at Barbe were the only other guys I remember paying special attention to, again just for the spectacle, not scouting or anything.)