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re: Harris is committed to HS......
Posted on 8/2/16 at 3:49 pm to lsub16
Posted on 8/2/16 at 3:49 pm to lsub16
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I love it. He made a statement to his team that he is worried about the 2016 season and not what he's doing in 2017. Many of his teammates this is all they have left. They aren't fortunate enough to go play at the next level so to have your leader come out and say "hey guys I'm focused on this high school season and not my college future." Shows what the kid is all about and I commend him for it.
I'm not going to hold it against the kid, but he made a mockery of his teammates. His coach convinced him to use his prowess as a star player to rile up the attention and then cast a bad light on his school. If you want to lead by example and show your teammates you're not going to focus on the future until the season is over, don't organize a commitment ceremony with LSU, Alabama, and Ole Miss hats on the table. None of it was necessary.
As I said in the other thread, hopefully Harris uses this as a learning moment that influential people will try to use him for personal gain and he'll be the one left holding the bag if shite goes south. His coach is the first of many.
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Posted on 8/2/16 at 3:59 pm to slackster
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but he made a mockery of his teammates. His coach convinced him to use his prowess as a star player to rile up the attention and then cast a bad light on his school.
Absolutely disagree, whether it was the coach or the players idea it was to spark the team and show that he is 100 percent committed to his high school team and is not worried about his college future.
The coach over at Plaquemine high turned that program completely around from where it was about 10 years ago. If this is the kind of stunt that needs to happen to motivate his team then good for both of them
Posted on 8/2/16 at 4:02 pm to slackster
If he wants to lead by example, with preseason starting soon, be the first one there every morning and the last one to leave. Bust your arse through every drill and show your teammates you'll give 100% every minute of every game and practice. Help the younger kids who might not be as good as him, show them the way you got to where you are because that's where they want to be. Be a vocal leader and communicate with the guys you line up next to. Talk to all of your teammates off the field in the hallways of your school, no matter their color, height, weight or importance to the team.
THAT'S what leaders do.
This post was edited on 8/2/16 at 4:02 pm
Posted on 8/2/16 at 4:04 pm to lsub16
This stunt will not motivate the team. All it did was draw even more attention to the player.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 4:08 pm to BayouBengals18
No guys like you are the ones who are drawing more attention to the player. Let the kid have some fun.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 4:57 pm to lsub16
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d is not worried about his college future
If this is true then why the dog and pony show. It was a shitty thing to do.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 4:59 pm to lsub16
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Absolutely disagree, whether it was the coach or the players idea it was to spark the team and show that he is 100 percent committed to his high school team and is not worried about his college future.
Except he used his leverage as a highly touted college prospect to get the coverage and then had the hats of 3 colleges on the table. Plus, why would his high school team need any validation that he was "committed" to them, and how did this stunt prove that?
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The coach over at Plaquemine high turned that program completely around from where it was about 10 years ago. If this is the kind of stunt that needs to happen to motivate his team then good for both of them
The coach could be a great guy for all I know, but he's not infallible, and this stunt is Exhibit A.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 5:43 pm to slackster
You're much better over here than you are on tOT. Just thought you should know that.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 5:49 pm to tigerintexas777
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What an immature move. Grow up and be a man. Recruiting has gotten out of hand, nothing but a show now. Best recruit story I ever heard was Myles Brennan commiting on the spot in Miles office, plain and simple and direct. No lights, no camera. Man to man.
The shows will stop when grown men stop worrying about what 17 and 18 year old HS kids are saying/doing. Stop giving them attention and it'll stop 100%.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 5:53 pm to SHBlake79
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It was sort of satirical and funny, but let's face it... CFB recruiting it a business and there are 247 analysts that so this for a living, so getting everyone's attention like that was sort of a punk and uncalled for move. I see no reason for that
Here's the fallacy. It's not a necessary business. We don't need these people to bring us coverage or give us updates, but since people care enough to follow it and think about it, we have this business. He doesn't owe anything to 247 just so they can make money off of his accomplishments. If there was no 247 sports, the world would be just fine. I enjoy 247 sports, I look at it a lot, but I would be absolutely fine without it. So if the business model of 247 sports is wrecked by situations like this, then maybe it doesn't deserve to exist, and luckily its non-existence wouldn't cause much/any damage in real life.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 5:58 pm to lsub16
lsub16-The coach at Plaquemine High didn't turn that program around. What turned the Plaquemine program around was the CLOSURE of North Iberville High School. That forced ALOT of those kids to be bused to Plaquemine High.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 5:59 pm to Humanelement
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He did worse, he broke our balls. Let em go man he's not coming here anyway, no kid does that kind of disrespectful shite and then commits to the coaches whom's faces he just shite in. get real.
Find new hobbies. Stop worrying about 17 and 18 year old kids. Your HS days are over, and you can't get them back, sorry.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 6:01 pm to slackster
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Except he used his leverage as a highly touted college prospect to get the coverage and then had the hats of 3 colleges on the table.
Who made those people show up? He didn't pay them last I checked. He didn't ask for attention and media coverage, it was a simple case of people who oddly care WAYYYY too much about it. It's a sad state of affairs that grown arse men talk shite about HS kids over a sport that involves two people bashing their heads together.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 6:28 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Who made those people show up? He didn't pay them last I checked. He didn't ask for attention and media coverage, it was a simple case of people who oddly care WAYYYY too much about it. It's a sad state of affairs that grown arse men talk shite about HS kids over a sport that involves two people bashing their heads together.
You're posting on the LSU Recruiting Board yet you're going to say grown men care way too much about HS kids? Also, when did I bash him? Calling out posters who've defended it or criticizing the coach isn't bashing the kid.
Lastly, this idea that top recruits are entitled to troll programs and mess with the media because they "didn't ask for the attention" is ridiculous. They love the damn attention. They want the attention and are doing nothing to get away from it. If they use that attention to do something stupid, you can't avoid criticism by arguing they never asked for the attention.
It's water under the bridge, but people defending it are nuts.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 6:29 pm to BayouBengals18
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You're much better over here than you are on tOT. Just thought you should know that.
Blasphemous. Some people just cannot handle the truth.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 7:08 pm to TeamLSU
Don't talk about his neighbor that way. He's the greatest coach EVAR!!!
Posted on 8/3/16 at 4:03 am to TeamLSU
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lsub16-The coach at Plaquemine High didn't turn that program around. What turned the Plaquemine program around was the CLOSURE of North Iberville High School. That forced ALOT of those kids to be bused to Plaquemine High.
I'm from Plaquemine and went to school at Plaquemine and while there are some students that came from North Iberville, that reason alone wasn't the reason for the turnaround. Distefano is a really good coach and deserves all the credit. He has some really good assistants on staff as well. This year Eric Willis is joining his staff. He had previously coached and neighboring 1A St John and took them to the state championship. Now if they'd close down White Castle we'd have a juggernaut especially in basketball.
Posted on 8/3/16 at 10:51 am to tiggerthetooth
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Who made those people show up? He didn't pay them last I checked. He didn't ask for attention and media coverage, it was a simple case of people who oddly care WAYYYY too much about it. It's a sad state of affairs that grown arse men talk shite about HS kids over a sport that involves two people bashing their heads together
retarded. By posting here you are participating in the process that you are slamming. Hypocrite much?
This post was edited on 8/3/16 at 10:53 am
Posted on 8/3/16 at 12:00 pm to lsufreak337
and that is why his coach will remain a high school coach.
Posted on 8/3/16 at 12:44 pm to lsub16
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No guys like you are the ones who are drawing more attention to the player.
LOL. I love it when posters criticize others and doing exactly the same thing
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Let the kid have some fun.
So his coaching forcing him to do this was "fun". How has all this been fun?
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