re: Landon Collins to Willis, Get out of Louisiana

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I respect all of these posters who are smart enough to see that Landon is an elite player. How can you say you would not love to have him?

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People are just bitter. Rightfully so, but they choose to let that take over.

Collins is an outstanding player, and this years LSU defense would have been a better unit with him on the field.

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

It's the internet. Social media.

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

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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.

Seeya!!

BYE !!

You and your escort (ho) dating Brother landon.

There are a lot of troubled athletes out there...most come from troubled and dysfunctional families...and there sure seems to be no shortage of them these days...it's too bad that they will not learn until it's too late that being angry and vindictive is the pathway to mental illness...but their family and political leadership has duped them very badly...poor, poor people...

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I think losing Gerald and Speedy really is as simple as this: They wanted to "get back" at LSU. Gerald, for the fanbase bashing his brother for choosing Alabama, and Speedy for LSU not offering Ellis, whether both Noel and Landon were responsible for the way their recruitments (or our reactions) played out or not

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no… just, no…

i have a former pharm. tech that's speedy's cousin, and what she told me directly, the day of the game, was that basically they WERE a package deal to go to LSU… the ONLY way they were coming to LSU was TOGETHER… however, after the state championship game, they had a falling out, of sorts…

now, I don't know the severity of the falling out, but considering the outcome, it must have been pretty significant and they didn't work it out, like i thought they would… her brother, Bryce, is a coach at Karr, and tried his damnest to get them to LSU, but it is what it is…

Gerald picking Florida was a direct result of too much LSU pressure by momma, him rebelling against that pressure, and the fact that him and Speedy were on rocky terms, at which time, Speedy made his decision to aTm...