re: To honor of the last day of our offseason, I couldn't resist Re: #5for5

It's actually not all that surprising. Recruits who like attention to much or, worse, who "troll" tend to have a sense of entitlement, lack respect for others and/or are deeply insecure about their true abilities.

Take Fournette. He was never insecure about his ability, never begged for attention and never played silly twitter games. And, to be honest, take Cam Robinson. He knew he wanted Bama, never drug things out or led coaches on and didn't let local fans pressure him. Both are top 10 picks.

Juxtapose them with the three players you cite. Attention seeking, disrespectfulness and insecurity are not good traits for a team sport, particularly when eventually you WILL have to prove yourself against the very best.

It's not like we're immune to these types of players. Travonte Valentine was tremendously insecure and immature as a recruit. He committed and decommitted from three schools before signing with us. And it is not a great shock that he had trouble adjusting to college life and not starting. Fortunately for him, it seems some in his life helped him and he was smart enough to realize that the NFL isn't there if you don't grow up a little. I'm still concerned that Valentine won't make it all of the way to the end of this season for these reasons (I hope I am wrong because he sounds like a tremendous talent in a position of great need for us).

Going back to Janzen Jackson, highly rated LA recruits over the past decade who snub LSU and do so in disrespectful fashion tend to flop.

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More than most? escaping baton rouge twice against an inferior team, escaping Tenn against an inferior team, having a split title, and getting a rematch for another.

Seems like another coach in the sec has had some luck.

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Saban has won the NC in 5 of his last 11 college seasons.

Sure, it always take some luck to win it all (we got our share in 2007 getting in the title game with 2 losses), but when you do it 5 of your last 11 college seasons, it ain't luck. Nowhere close.

No need for the Saban hate. He didn't leave us for another school - he went to the NFL. Then came back to the best job available at the time.

Spurrier did the exact same thing, and he's beloved down in Florida (just named the field for him and he has some position in the program).

Just tip your hat the Saban. And then kick his arse on the field.

I don't recall Jamal Adams being amongst those 5. I thought it was Trey Quinn.