So, Tua is going to a school with a freshman starter

There are things happening behind the scenes we have no idea about. The obvious sign is kiffin coming to lsu.

I think the logical thing is that Tua is NOT cool with signing with a school with a freshman QB AND the OC that recruited him is gone.

He's been a solid commit, but Kiffin leaving would give him solid cover to decommit.

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Brennan balks at LSU merely OFFERING another QB.

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LSU's pitch to Tua is that he should come to LSU and play early. We're playing up the competition to get an advantage, and if Tua flips, you won't hear a peep from people on this board that he's scared of competition, but they'll say it about Brennan. That's dumb.

Also, Brennan has been committed here with another top QB for a while. Adding a 3rd to the mix guarantees that someone is going to bail.

Nowhere in my post did I make an excuse or even mention O. This is about the motivations of teenagers.

I personally would not advise my son, if he were a top QB, to sign with a school with a freshman starter. It would obviously take exceptional performance, or injury, to beat him out.

Other recruits in your class are a different story. There will always be other recruits, but it's very difficult to unseat an entrenched starter.

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Make all the excuses for o that you want, this is going hurt us for years

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By potentially losing a 3-4 star kid with terrible SEC offers? WTF is wrong with some of you today?

I'm not even saying he's going to LSU. I could just see him not going to Alabama, with Kiffin gone and Hurts having such a great freshman year.

It's just speculation. No one knows anything.

Who was his 2nd choice of schools behind Alabama?

Because he will redshirt, and sit a year

If Hurts keeps developing hell go early most likely.

He probably needs more than a year to go from Hawaii high school speed to SEC speed.

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Brennan balks at LSU merely OFFERING another QB.

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Well that and probably the fact that the first OFFICIAL visit to a QB as HC of LSU Orgeron along with Craig and Raymond went to visit our 2 legged horse with 2 gimpy legs Lowell N. That probably didn't sit well with Brennan either, wouldn't you think?

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So, Tua is going to a school with a freshman starter - and probably the best QB in the conference - there being a good chance he would be a backup for three years.

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So as you are probably aware Bama under Saban doesn't start freshman QB's and this year is without a doubt an anomaly. So Tua wasn't going to start in the first place if you look at history. So he was going to red-shirt. So he redshirts next year and if Hurts is as good as he has looked there is a good possibility he will only be there for 3 years and will leave his junior year. If that is the case and Tua redshirts next year he would probably only sit one year before being the starter as a redshirt sophomore. Meaning he is probably where he would have been no matter if Hurts is a freshman or not.