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ezride25 
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 10:17 am to rjokerlsu)
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considered a preferred, or invited, walk on?
More like beast mode head busta walk on. He was originally cast for a roll in the Avengers, but turned it down.
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crazyLSUfan 
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 10:18 am to Duckie)
Kevin Steltz was also a walk-on IIRC.
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lsueddie18
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 10:34 am to LsuTool)
Yeah, he's a player. Looks about 4.5 fast with excellent hands. Hope he makes it. Downright little gunslinger throwing him the ball. 
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nvcowboyfan
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 10:57 am to eetiger)
Dennis Johnson was a walk on and played quite a bit
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USLttarP 
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 11:00 am to JJ27)
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He didn't get offers because his girlfriend goes to LSU already and he was all LSU.
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chinese58
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Dallas
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16302 posts
| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 11:09 am to NOSA)
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they are probably all from Monroe, Louisiana.
Some were from West Monroe, Ruston, Sterlington, Bastrop and Farmerville. 
ETA:
ESPN/Ruston/107.7, Aaron Dietrich & the Tigerdroppings LSU Recruiting board scooped the News Star. We had this on here two days ago! 
This post was edited on 5/18 at 11:16 am
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joechristoppher77
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 11:55 am to chinese58)
97.7 has been talking up this kid like no else I can remember. Kinda has that jack hunt feel as a player
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IceBreaker
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 12:06 pm to joechristoppher77)
The guy can play. I think he is more suited to be a DB instead of a WR, but that's just me. Now, with that being said, I'm not sure he is LSU material. He would have been a star at say ULL or ULM or something, but this is big boy football.
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TigerBait1127
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 12:20 pm to LSU2THEMAX)
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Rivals never rated him, but fans who looked at his videos rated him as a 4 star.
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TorNation
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 12:47 pm to LSU2THEMAX)
Is this guy Brian Laird's brother? I could almost swear they are identical twins.
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BilJ 
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 12:50 pm to USLttarP)
Yeah I'm not really sure which of the posts I quoted was dumber
I'm sure rivals just never got around to ranking a 4 star talent or "damn that Laird kid is amazing, but he has a girlfriend he's Facebook official with, so I'm not going to waste my time offering."
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TGHub
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 12:51 pm to ezride25)
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He was originally cast for a roll in the Avengers, but turned it down.
I'm pretty sure Captain America is based on his life story. He only turned it down because he thought it would be a little much playing himself in a movie.
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aglandry
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 1:35 pm to eetiger)
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Miles will never play a walk on except MAYBE on special teams.
What is wrong with playing special teams? Daniel Graff started as a walk on and was probably one of the best special team players to play for LSU.Graff earned a scholarship after two years.Graff was one of the fastest players on the LSU football team.Former Special teams coach Robinson said, that after reviewing game film he noticed that Graff was always the first man down the field on the special team.
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chinese58
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Dallas
Member since Jun 2004
16302 posts
| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 1:44 pm to TGHub)
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Captain America is based on his life story.
He's got the hardware.
Check out his career baseball stats .458 batting average!
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Dylan
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 2:04 pm to chinese58)
Hopefully he can make contributions. It looks like a college weight program would do him wonders.
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wildtigercat93
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 2:29 pm to chinese58)
He looks tiny in that picture
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Lester Earl
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 2:50 pm to Dylan)
he'll end up just playing baseball, imo
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TigerMan327
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Member since Feb 2011
2504 posts
| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 2:54 pm to Dylan)
if he can bulk up he well be good, ocs workout program is based solely on core, speed, and explosion not much getting bigger.
I think his future is in baseball though
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YMCA 
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 3:13 pm to LSU2THEMAX)
He matched up with South Plaqeumine and Bama signee and used him and shut down LSU signee Ronald Martin who played DB/WR and was that classifications Football MVP and will likely do the same in baseball and will start off walking on in both at LSU. I have a feeling he will surprise a lot of people. Not associated with OCS but saw him play multiple times and he is a real deal ath.
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Poxxxx says GFR
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Member since Aug 2011
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| re: Mark Laird walking on to Football, Baseball (Posted on 5/18/12 at 3:28 pm to YMCA)
He is a 2* on 24/7 for all you star gazers
Welcome aboard! 
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