Johnny being known for his recruiting abilities

We may be behind UK and A&M, sure, but those other teams I'm not so sure about.

I mean he has a lot of under the radar talent also. I think we all see the potential Epps and Patterson have. He just can't figure a way to use them.

3 of our 5 guys aren't rated by the system. So we are getting rated on mays and sims. It's been said Hayward would he a top 100 guy if he was in the States but idk. Then the two juco guys are suppose to he decent players. But we definitely will need epps and elberto to improve for next season. Epps in defense and elberto is footwork.

In recent years many SEC schools have upped the ante. AU hired Pearl who had great success at UT. State hired Ben Howland who has won big at every stop in his career. Tenn. hired Barnes who, though his time was up at Texas, has won everywhere he's been. Bama hired Johnson who has won at the NBA level and the early returns at Bama seem to be positive. It took a little while (like it did at Southeastern and Murray St.), but Kennedy has A&M headed in the right direction

This isn't the same SEC Jones came into in 2012. Other schools have placed more emphasis on basketball. Just a quick glance at the resumes of all 14 Head Coaches will tell you that Jones is clearly the least qualified of them all (even Kim Anderson won a national title at the D-II level). My concern is that LSU is about to get left behind if they keep Jones and the hole will be much bigger to dig out of when they do make a change.

Can't really explain the lack of recruiting for this year, generally, Johnny has done well here.

Mays is a good pickup, but we went out and got some JUCOs, probably because Johnny didnt want the team quite so young for next year. He really hasn't had any success with JUCO players thus far. I actually like Reath and think he's an immediate upgrade over ER III and Malone, but Jenkins just seems like a filler player. He p;lays some good D, but that's about all yo ucan say about him.

Sims is a likeable guy but hard to project in major D1 basketball. He plays like a 6'5 PF, which you immediately think of Bridgewater, but he has way more of a shot than Bridgewater, I thin kthe hope is that Sims could be good down the line, kind of like Michael Carrera finally was this year for South Carolina.

Kieran Hayward is a total wildcard. This is all David Patrick and outside of Malone he's picked up some really good Aussie guys in Dellavedova, Mills and Simmons. Think he's rated #8 in the 2016 class among Aussies...again the "potential" guy you just wont know what he's like until he starts playing some ball here.

Wish we would concentrate on LA a little more than we do. Losing a lot of good players to other teams this signing class (Jarreau, Williams, Vital, Peters & Gresham) and we need to hit 2017 and 2018 classes harder than we are in state.

In fact I'm still perplexed how Johnny lost Jarreau and Gresham to UMass of all places, I remember them visiting and thinking they would commit shortly after, then end up committing to UMass and we took Jenkins and Reath from Lee College. I have a really bad feeling Peters is going to be a great PG for Ben Howland at MSU too.

The 2016 recruiting rankings for LSU are skewed because we have two JUCO's and a foreigner coming in that throw off our rankings. With that said, Johnny and company completely missed on almost every single major player in the state of Louisiana. (I think Skylar Mays is in that group of major players so I give them some credit for that.)

It is absolutely INEXCUSABLE that we do not a freshman big man in this class. To say forward is a position of need is an understatement. We signed the JUCO player Duop Reath that I really like (shot blocker who can step out and shoot) but beside that we have nothing. I am so freaking tired of watching the Darcy-Elbert-Bridgewater trio play basketball for LSU.

If Blakeney and Quarterman are not on the roster next year, it is going to be very rough. We will only have one point guard who will be a freshmen. We won't have any true 3-point shooters (maybe the Australian Heyward but he is a project) and once again we will be weak inside with no depth outside of Victor, Duop Reath and Aaron Epps' corpse (since he apparently died at the end of the season).

The future of LSU Basketball is so depressing with Johnny.

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That has nothing to do with the current recruiting class that will play the 16-17 season.

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Ok dude I thought you were talking about the performance of the 15-16 recruiting class.

i think Kieren Hayword is better than people think, and Jenkins (the other person from Lee college) plays like Quarterman, or at least how Quarterman used to be

How do you think that proving a point means going to a website that has rankings and blindly go by them, in a complete vacuum.

The guy recruited the #1 player in the world, that has to count for something. And that's not like the only good player he ever brought in, 2 guys that are in the NBA right now.

I will never understand why this board goes so far out of there way to criticize our coaches. There is plenty to complain about, but recruiting?