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Si.com (Ross Dellenger)- How LSU landed Joe Burrow
Posted on 5/30/18 at 2:12 am
Posted on 5/30/18 at 2:12 am
LINK (Full article in the link)
The air filled with football talk from LSU coach Ed Orgeron, offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger and the Burrow clan: the quarterback himself, his football-coaching father Jimmy and his brother Dan.
“All ’ball,” Orgeron described it.
Orgeron heaped praise on his new quarterback, calling him a “game-changer and difference maker” in his first public comments since Burrow’s signing. “He’s smart and tough, got accuracy.”
“He didn’t want the red carpet. He wanted football,” Orgeron said from the Hilton Sandestin Beach Resort Hotel on Tuesday, the opening day of the four-day SEC spring meetings, much of which has focused on NCAA transfer legislation. “He didn’t want none of the recruiting process, none of that.”
Burrow dined with coaches Friday night, May 11, at Texas de Brazil, a pricey steakhouse chain that coaches use to court high school recruits during official visits. The film study unfolded Saturday. Coaches showed clips of Burrow while at Ohio State, comparing and contrasting them to plays in Ensminger’s new offense—specifically the system he ran in 2016 as LSU’s interim offensive coordinator.
“Had a nice cut-up of some of the plays that he ran and some of the plays we run. We asked him to take us through his reads. He was excellent,” Orgeron said. “He knew exactly what was going on, exactly the coverage, the reads. We went through some quarterback run plays. He was A-plus in that meeting.”
Saturday night included a dining trip to Mike Anderson’s, a popular seafood restaurant in Baton Rouge. "He really liked the boiled crawfish,” Orgeron said.
LSU first-year safeties coach Bill Busch served as the lead recruiter on Burrow. Busch served on Urban Meyer’s support staff at Ohio State in 2015, Burrow’s freshman season.
There was another convincing person, too: Burrow’s brother Dan, who lives in Houston. "Got to give Bill Busch a lot of credit,” Orgeron said.
Orgeron said he did not promise Burrow the job but had heard other programs did. (The Bearcats were the only other school the quarterback visited.)
The air filled with football talk from LSU coach Ed Orgeron, offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger and the Burrow clan: the quarterback himself, his football-coaching father Jimmy and his brother Dan.
“All ’ball,” Orgeron described it.
Orgeron heaped praise on his new quarterback, calling him a “game-changer and difference maker” in his first public comments since Burrow’s signing. “He’s smart and tough, got accuracy.”
“He didn’t want the red carpet. He wanted football,” Orgeron said from the Hilton Sandestin Beach Resort Hotel on Tuesday, the opening day of the four-day SEC spring meetings, much of which has focused on NCAA transfer legislation. “He didn’t want none of the recruiting process, none of that.”
Burrow dined with coaches Friday night, May 11, at Texas de Brazil, a pricey steakhouse chain that coaches use to court high school recruits during official visits. The film study unfolded Saturday. Coaches showed clips of Burrow while at Ohio State, comparing and contrasting them to plays in Ensminger’s new offense—specifically the system he ran in 2016 as LSU’s interim offensive coordinator.
“Had a nice cut-up of some of the plays that he ran and some of the plays we run. We asked him to take us through his reads. He was excellent,” Orgeron said. “He knew exactly what was going on, exactly the coverage, the reads. We went through some quarterback run plays. He was A-plus in that meeting.”
Saturday night included a dining trip to Mike Anderson’s, a popular seafood restaurant in Baton Rouge. "He really liked the boiled crawfish,” Orgeron said.
LSU first-year safeties coach Bill Busch served as the lead recruiter on Burrow. Busch served on Urban Meyer’s support staff at Ohio State in 2015, Burrow’s freshman season.
There was another convincing person, too: Burrow’s brother Dan, who lives in Houston. "Got to give Bill Busch a lot of credit,” Orgeron said.
Orgeron said he did not promise Burrow the job but had heard other programs did. (The Bearcats were the only other school the quarterback visited.)
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Posted on 5/30/18 at 3:10 am to TigersJump
Thanks for sharing
Posted on 5/30/18 at 3:26 am to Gorilla Ball
The crawfish
Posted on 5/30/18 at 3:29 am to TigersJump
quote:
Burrow dined with coaches Friday night, May 11, at Texas de Brazil, a pricey steakhouse chain that coaches use to court high school recruits during official visits
I just don't understand why you would take a recruit to a chain restaurant.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 3:36 am to tigerfan84
quote:agreed. And especially one that didn’t originate in Louisiana and does not serve Louisiana food.
I just don't understand why you would take a recruit to a chain restaurant.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 3:42 am to otowntiger
quote:
And especially one that didn’t originate in Louisiana and does not serve Louisiana food
So you think a kid from Ohio, who came to talk about the biggest move of his college career, would really care?
Posted on 5/30/18 at 3:46 am to otowntiger
What gets me on this one is I don't remember any reports of sightings on the Rant. Maybe I missed them but these sightings usually get reported here first.
Oh, and choice of restaurant....When they ask these guys what they want to ear, the players say 'steak', italian', 'mexican'.... that's where they take them.
Oh, and choice of restaurant....When they ask these guys what they want to ear, the players say 'steak', italian', 'mexican'.... that's where they take them.
This post was edited on 5/30/18 at 3:51 am
Posted on 5/30/18 at 3:54 am to TigersJump
Great read, ty!
Posted on 5/30/18 at 4:26 am to tigerfan84
Especially in south Louisiana
Posted on 5/30/18 at 4:53 am to Darius David
Joe Heisman
I'm in
great job CEO and staff
I don't care if they took him to Mickey D's if he decided to come to B.R.!
I'm in
great job CEO and staff
I don't care if they took him to Mickey D's if he decided to come to B.R.!
Posted on 5/30/18 at 5:51 am to tigerfan84
Who cares if it's a chain? An all you can eat meat buffet with bacon wrapped filet, lamb chops, top cut house sirloin, variety of chicken, variety of sausage, and more meats... who does not want that?
Posted on 5/30/18 at 6:13 am to tigerfan84
quote:
I just don't understand why you would take a recruit to a chain restaurant.
People from Ohio have different pallets than those who were born and raised in Louisiana. Little story a good friend of mine told me about some Ohio national guard guys that were down here helping during Katrina. My grind was a Sargent in the Louisiana national guard and was in charge of getting food catered in for the troops from time to time while he was deployed to New Orleans during Katrina. Anyway he started noticing all the bread was usual gone by the time the Louisiana guys were making through the chow lines. Come to find out the Ohio guys were taking it all. So my friend went to their commanding officer and asked what's up? The Ohio commanding officer told him that his guys just couldn't handle the spicy food everyday. It was giving them the shits and other digestive problems. So they were filling up in bread instead. My friend apologized because he never considered that the Ohio guys would have problems eating the food we grew up with.
Point of the story is maybe they asked Joe where or what he likes to eat? He's probably a meat and potatoes guy not a gumbo, jambalaya, etouffee guy..,.yet.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 6:19 am to TigersJump
quote:
He didn’t want none of
Posted on 5/30/18 at 6:21 am to GoRuckTiger
Yet.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 6:21 am to TigersJump
Do we seriously take recruits to Texas de Brazil and Mike Anderson’s? I get the steak place, but there has to be better seafood places we can take them
Posted on 5/30/18 at 6:30 am to tigerfan84
I don’t understand why people love that shite so much
Posted on 5/30/18 at 6:55 am to Oilfieldbiology
Man, Mike Anderson's is outstanding. In addition, it is owned by an LSU All-American Linebacker and has LSU memorabilia all over the place.
The house salad is tremendous and the crawfish is really good there. The Jumbo Fried Shrimp are some of the best anywhere. Get over it.
The house salad is tremendous and the crawfish is really good there. The Jumbo Fried Shrimp are some of the best anywhere. Get over it.
Posted on 5/30/18 at 6:58 am to tigerfan84
quote:
I just don't understand why you would take a recruit to a chain restaurant
See, my thought was “I just don’t understand why you would take a recruit to Mike Anderson’s.”
Posted on 5/30/18 at 7:00 am to Sev09
Re dining choice: It worked!
Posted on 5/30/18 at 7:01 am to TigersJump
How he would fit in the 2016 offense? Wasn’t that Les and Cam’s offense with a different playcaller??
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