re: per DD -- LSU offers 3* OT Mike Arnold. What do y'all think?

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Reaching towards the bottom of the barrel now I guess.

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Wouldn't go that far, but it is a contingency offer IMO. Might end up with a small class.

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I think next year will be more telling about his recruiting skills.

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I don't know what you can call it, but there's a point when you start calculating the impact of a given year's recruiting class from beginning to end. I'm referring to the time when our coaches are first in contact with a recruit for a specific year, then following them throughout the process, all the way until the recruit steps foot on campus, the practice field, and ultimately the playing field then leaves. Further reducing it to a particular position within a class, take a look at where we are with O-Linemen for the 2015 recruiting class. Not very good. Everyone wants to make excuses and point to previous classes and ones to come (like next year). But where 2015 is concerned, you will never get it back, and it's going to hurt us at some point in this projected championship run over the next 2-3 years. IMHO, just selling OL recruits about the stable of RBs they could block for should be enough to get some of the elite O-Linemen in for a visit. We're not getting any of these 4-5 star guys to visit, except maybe Tillery, and we've known all along where that was headed. According to the recruiting sites, we're not even on these guys' radars. If Grimes isn't getting it done, Les should take charge of OL recruiting.

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Posted by la champ1
Reaching towards the bottom of the barrel now I guess.

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In whose eyes? Recruiting services? Lol
If the coaches like him.. I like him

O-Line is byfar the hardest to project at the college level due to the fact that they have been the biggest and strong player on the field their whole HS career and haven't had to face people bigger and stronger than them consistently like they will at the college level. Thus, of all the positions I wouldn't worry about the star rating with O-linemen as they require the most time for development both physically and technically skill wise.

Grimes needs time to prove he can

1) Develope kids at LSU

2) Recruit the south

3) Consistently out scheme opponents

*** Mawae was mistake on Miles part IMO but I hopeful Grimes can give us what we need moving forward.

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That Grimes really isn't that valuable to our staff. Flame away but we had a very talented OL this past year and they weren't dominant by any stretch. There's a reason Auburn fans didn't like him and Malzahn would not retain him.

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I am bumping myself to eat crow. Great job by him. Criticize when its warranted but you have to give credit where it is due as well.

Yea definitely. I'm still not declaring him a great coach by any means but he definitely proved he's not worthless.

Wonder if LSU is still as interested in Arnold with this latest OL commit?

And if you look at the OL committed, Grimes has done an impressive job.