LSU Offensive Tackle recruiting

What did you think when you saw the thread title on the front page of this site titled "Tristan Leigh"?

His Twitter message says that he is leaving Notre Dame for personal reasons. To me, that sounds like he's headed back closer to his home of New Jersey.

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Dellinger was a nice pull but let's be honest, we weren't facing Ohio St or many bog boys for him

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Ummmmm, his final 4 were LSU, Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State

What? I seem to thought we were. We had to pull in that amazing tackle prospect from the Midwest, which is notoriously Big Ten country. He was sought after by Michigan and Ohio State and plenty of other schools.

I just think Leigh is weighing his options at the moment, seeing what the other teams are going to say. Here he'll have the luxury of getting some early playing time and could be our swing tackle from day-1. But, you've also got to take into account the rest of our depth. Although, schools like Ohio State and Oklahoma are almost backlogged with high profile o-linemen recruits. That sometimes is a plus (the line will always be solid) and a negative (newer recruits will have to wait a while to play)

Our O-line recruiting has actually been very decent in the past 2 cycles. We've pulled in very solid groups with some high-echelon guys in them. Cregg is way more about development than just pure talent. I trust that some of those big 5-star linemen that everyone keeps drooling over will come. However, when you can get the same type of production out of a 4-star or 3-star guy it speaks more to the ability of that coach and the work that the player is putting in.

I'll be impressed if and when we sign Leigh, a truly elite LT prospect

Some people act like we're a mid-level program. When you win a natty you shouldn't struggle to sign elite OLs

Just stop

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Leigh does have a Fong(6) CB to LSU as well.

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It's a small gripe but Fong's CB on Leigh to LSU is only a (3).



Also, it's absolutely insane that people get downvoted for saying that Cregg needs to do better on the recruiting trail. The fact is that we will be in a really bad spot in terms of OL talent and depth if we miss out on Tristan Leigh. 2-3 total OL signees per year--even if they're good ones--is not enough in my opinion. You can get by with 2-3 if in other years you're signing 5, but we're not doing that. Look at the way we recruit receivers--we're typically shooting for a MINIMUM of 3 WR (we're hoping for 4+1 TE this season after planning to bring in 4+1 TE last season). Given that there's more OL on the field at once than there are receivers, there's no reason we shouldn't be hitting those same numbers with respect to linemen.


And I'm not even saying we need 4-5 4 and 5 star kids, as OL seems to be a position where a lot of development occurs and we see a lot of former 3*s get drafted highly, but we need the volume, even if not everyone is elite.

I think we've taken something between a step and leap improvement over the last two years. The OTs we're recruiting have a very high chance of lettering and a good chance of starting one day. This also gives us room to develop, depth and otherwise.

I'd like to see more volume, BUT under today's enviroment it isn't worth it. The chances on a "project" OT working out to be a SEC starter are quite low.

One of the biggest problems with OL, especially OTs, is the difference between a high school 17 yr old and a end of freshman year 18 yr old and determining what that difference will be. There are lots of big boys out there; some will develop in a way to be able to move well enough to be a good OT. Others will not.

So with that in mind, if you're going to do a "project" simply for volume....
A) by getting JUCO or transfer you have an extra year or two of seeing that physical development

B) You didn't use that spot with the recruited project, hence if something comes along that you just love- you can pull the trigger. Which is indeed the story often with recruiting.

C) A project OT with low chance of working out, when you use that 25 man spot, affects other positions too. There are some positions that "projects" work out more often; use that spot there.

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I think with the current global circumstances it's been a tad bit harder to recruit the way we do usually.

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Bama went out and grabbed the top 2 Tackles in this class and neither are from the state of Alabama or even a bordering state

Be an apologist all you want, but for Orgeron to turn the tide and be a consistent contender we have to do a better job and expect more with the QB and OLine recruiting. Thankfully he has finally turned around DLine recruiting but that took him years to do.

LSU is very fortunate that the state seems to be producing QBs now after a decade of weakness in that area.