re: Why is the rant saying Zach Lee won't play FB (if he comes)

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I find it hard to believe that the kid would turn down a 7 digit bonus

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i don't know if he'll be offered this. supposedly the dodgers don't have an interest in signing their 1st round pick

we got lucky if this is true

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First of all there is no indication that CG can even beat out JLee

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nobody is assuming this

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now that ZLee was picked in the first assures that he will not play for LSU

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no it doesn't

yeah i mean i don't count on him being a FB savior, but i don't get why people have written him off playing FB at all

that's all i'm asking about

some people just seem dead set that if he comes here, he's done with football

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why is the rant just assuming he's done with football?

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the rantards have captured the Oracle of Delphi

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what difference does it make? if you're that good, there isn't a competition



lee will be competing THIS year with a junior with a full year of experience and 2 years in the offense as well as a RS junior with almost a full year of experience and 3 years in the system

then, there is garret, who has a ton of experience in the system

lee won't even get the playbook for a few months


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There is a reason why there wasn't competition for the qb's or the position players. they were superior to everyone else.



positional players can transition rather easily

and there wasn't competition b/c stanford and UW had dogshit talent. LSU doesn't


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if you need a lsu example, les miles example, see pat peterson.



a positional player who didn't start for half a year without top players at CB. great example to compare to a QB facing a QB group with a ton of depth and 1 good performer (JJ)

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we'll have to agree to disagree.

my opinion, it doesn't matter what position or team you play on. If you are superior at your craft, you will play. Didn't tom brady beat out more experienced pro-bowl caliber qb in drew b? wasn't that team loaded with talent? Dan Marino comes to mind.

i'm not going to go through and list every example. Either the kid is elite or he isn't. My statement is, if he is in either baseball or football or both, then he stands to have an even larger finacial/professional opportunity than he was presented with last night.

it doesn't matter who's on the team in either sport. if he's that good, he will play and have a huge future.

"'don't know if he'll be offered this. supposedly the dodgers don't have an interest in signing their 1st round pick'

we got lucky if this is true"

Since I posted my remark about the bonus, I have since read that the Dodgers have gone cheap lately and may not want to pay even market rate. I certainly wish the kid the best, but a skinflint organization could be GOOD for Tiger fans. A kid picked this high would almost certainly pay immediate baseball dividends and you never know with football.

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we got lucky if this is true

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we got very, very lucky

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bledsoe got hurt

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and didn't get the job back when he wasn't. had to go to dallas only to get beat out by romo, another young qb who didn't have as much experience. a undrafted f.a.

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that was in the 80s. college offenses are more advanced than the one marino played in miami initially

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excuse. you don't know how complex a system was then or is today. it was an explosive offense. football isn't rocket science. they use a lot of the same formations and plays today as they did in the 80's.

peyton manning, ben r., matt ryan, tony romo, Troy A, john elway, dan marino, jim kelly all came in and started over a more experienced qb in the n.f.l., there are ton's of examples pro and college. to say one can't is an excuse for failure.

It's why those guy's succeed. They don't say, gosh they have a good qb, a good rb, a good c.b., a good guard, ect. I can't play there.

the fact of the matter is, if lee or any great high school player is scared of the talent at lsu, what are they going to do if they are wanting to make it at the pro level? they have a lot deeper talent on the worst pro team than at lsu or any college for that matter. Yet, rookies come in and beat veterans out every year.

Longest of long shots, but maybe:

-this is a kid that looks at Mitchell & Jones with NC rings in 2 sports & thinks "damn, I'd like to do that".

-he just wants to experience playing in Death Valley & the Box before going to work for a living.